Websters Worlds Scotland

Yes, seems like there will be 3 next year. 

We are becoming powerlifting. 

C. Smith wrote: We are becoming powerlifting.

Indeed! Weight classes, five year age divisions, every other person on the field claims to be a "world record holder".... Pitiful. Donald Dinnie weeps in the afterlife.

Edited by Borges - 8/28/14 at 12:25pm

+1 Kevin Rogers 

Carlos-

So, it appears to me that you helped Billy during the early stages of the MWC inception, which always included the multiple age-group idea, and then you criticize the idea of multiple age-groups in competition. That conflict in your opinions, between then and now, is the part that continues to baffle me - not the mistaken part about everyone should be called a champion. We agree on that part: if everyone is a champion, then no one is a champion.

No person that I've met or talked to, and certainly not the MWC, has expressed the idea that there should be so many divisions that every person is a champion .. even if that is an exaggeration to make a point .. its simply a false premise, is it not? or its an intentionally misleading criticism.

I've volunteered a big part of my career in supporting and promoting athletics competitions including age-group based divisions because so many aging athletes enjoy a peer-based competition among equals, so to speak. So, its disheartening to hear criticisms of a concept which we've based so much time and effort on. I compete in both Masters Weightlifting and Masters Highland Games and there are many hundreds of participants who invest great amounts of their lives in the sports. We all know that the moments are fleeting and the titles are short lived, but why discredit the concept? What changed between the time you helped Billy with MWC and now where you criticize its founding concept?

-K

Oh, okay -

It was your sweeping generalization of the "five year age divisions" that initially caught my eye.

As the defender of the MWC, I sometimes have to play my part as the guard dog.

And if the dog doesn't bark once in a while, he may lose his job.

Party on,

-K

right now Mark Valenti is so happy he is a crossfitter

Isn't he that guy who sold his soul to the devil and follow the sheeple to the crossfit way of life? 

I know Mike,was just kidding, I actually like Mark(only threw with him once/in Canada). Wish him well with the Blind Dog Gym

Borges wrote: When a games announcer is habitually calling half of the competitors on the field "world champion" or "world record holder" it cheapens the sport and the concept of greatness.

As usual - for NASGA - we have wondered off topic - oh look a butterfly just flew past my window - and instead of talking about David's excellent world championships; here we are talking about the 13 age and weight divisions at MWC2014.

Is this the same David Webster who, along with Dougie Edmunds, ruined Magnus Ver Magnussen's career by stacking events against him in 1996? Who picked and chose athletes, or rather selected who not to invite to to WSM for all the years he was involved in it?

Wayne, spot on...David is nothing if not a gentleman.

Moosie wrote: I really enjoyed reading the posts. In high school and college I truly loved sports. When I turned 50 I thought only casual running and weightlifting was left in my life (softball is too slow). Then I saw Andy Vincent at the Austin Celtic Festival. My 13 year old son and I were hooked. I found the passion of athletic competition again. Something I thought was gone in my life. I will never be world champion. The best I have ever finished is second in a few meets, but boy was I proud. These posts show me that all of you love this sport and that's what matters. And it is growing. Im 53 now in my 3rd year and dread the day I will have to stop. Have a great day all.