PsychoMarket Recap - Wednesday, September 9, 2020 Stocks shot up today and recovered some losses after sharp declines in big tech stocks. After several red days, shares of Amazon (AAPL), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and other big companies rallied. On a sour note, reopening stocks (travel, cruise lines, airlines, hotels, etc) were down after AstraZeneca (AZN) announced it had its COVID-19 vaccine trial paused.
The S&P finished 2.08% up, the Nasdaq was 2.92%, leading the day, and the Dow finished 1.68% up. The volatility index (VIX) was down 4.8%, indicating increased risk appetite in traders.
Today, it was announced that AstraZeneca, a forerunner in the development of the COVID vaccine announced a pause of their experimental trial after one patient became more ill, pledging to make safety a priority and take the time necessary to let science prevail. This setback comes in stark contrast to politicians and governments who seem to imply a cure is just around the corner. Shares of AstraZeneca sank 2%, while those of companies competing to develop a Covid-19 vaccine including Moderna (MRNA) and Novavax (NVAX) rose.
US oil prices plunged nearly 7% today, after Saudi Aramco, the largest oil producer in the world, announced it would be slashing its selling price to Asia and the United States, per Bloomberg. "Oil demand globally is really sluggish. All of the low hanging fruit from the global oil recovery has already happened," said Michael Tran, managing director of global energy strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
Asia-Us cargo rates are at the highest since March lows. For bulls evidence of a rebounding economy, for bears activity is fueled by liquidity and the shoe has yet to drop.
Highlights - After falling nearly 20% in the week, Tesla (TSLA) stock roared back today, finishing the day 10.9% up.
- Big Commerce (BIGC) reported earnings today. While estimates were beaten, investors were not impressed. Stock is down 10% today (4% during session (6% after-hour)
- EPS of -$0.38 v -$0.43 estimate
- Revenue of 36.3 million v 35.6 million estimate
- Facebook (FB) underperformed the market, finishing a modest 0.94% up.
- Precious metals were up today, with gold miners ($GDX) leading, up 4.34%. Silver was up 1.58% and gold was 0.92% up.
- McConnell announced plans to unveil the new $300B relief bill and took procedural steps needed to set up a vote "as soon as this week." Schumer and Pelosi said "Republicans bill which doesn't come close to addressing the problems and is headed nowhere"
- Analyst Upgrades:
- $MSFT Microsoft had a nice boost by Morgan Stanley $MS who raised its price target from $230 to $245
- $PTON Peloton had Price Target raised by Wedbush from $66 to $100
- $RPD Rapid7 Target raised by $MS Morgan Stanley $55 to $60 (nice stock check it out)
- $SFIX Stich Fix initiated by Deutsche Bank at BUY with pt $34
- $SPCE Virgin Galactic Upgraded by Credit Suisse from $22 to $24 and NEUTRAL to OUTPERFORM.
Notable Earnings for Tomorrow Thur Sept 10: FuelCell FCEL (BO), Chewy CHWY (AH), Dave & Busters PLAY (AH), Oracle ORCL (AH), Peloton PTON (AH)
Interesting recent CEO purchase transactions: MNLO $100k, CWH $3MM, VST $750k, BKR $1MM, FRG $4.5MM, IVZ $3MM, SDC $10MM, PLAG $1.7MM
submitted by PsychoMarket Recap - Wednesday, September 9, 2020 Stocks shot up today and recovered some losses after sharp declines in big tech stocks. After several red days, shares of Amazon (AAPL), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and other big companies rallied. On a sour note, reopening stocks (travel, cruise lines, airlines, hotels, etc) were down after AstraZeneca (AZN) announced it had its COVID-19 vaccine trial paused.
The S&P finished 2.08% up, the Nasdaq was 2.92%, leading the day, and the Dow finished 1.68% up. The volatility index (VIX) was down 4.8%, indicating increased risk appetite in traders.
Today, it was announced that AstraZeneca, a forerunner in the development of the COVID vaccine announced a pause of their experimental trial after one patient became more ill, pledging to make safety a priority and take the time necessary to let science prevail. This setback comes in stark contrast to politicians and governments who seem to imply a cure is just around the corner. Shares of AstraZeneca sank 2%, while those of companies competing to develop a Covid-19 vaccine including Moderna (MRNA) and Novavax (NVAX) rose.
US oil prices plunged nearly 7% today, after Saudi Aramco, the largest oil producer in the world, announced it would be slashing its selling price to Asia and the United States, per Bloomberg. "Oil demand globally is really sluggish. All of the low hanging fruit from the global oil recovery has already happened," said Michael Tran, managing director of global energy strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
Asia-Us cargo rates are at the highest since March lows. For bulls evidence of a rebounding economy, for bears activity is fueled by liquidity and the shoe has yet to drop.
Highlights - After falling nearly 20% in the week, Tesla (TSLA) stock roared back today, finishing the day 10.9% up.
- Big Commerce (BIGC) reported earnings today. While estimates were beaten, investors were not impressed. Stock is down 10% today (4% during session (6% after-hour)
- EPS of -$0.38 v -$0.43 estimate
- Revenue of 36.3 million v 35.6 million estimate
- Facebook (FB) underperformed the market, finishing a modest 0.94% up.
- Precious metals were up today, with gold miners ($GDX) leading, up 4.34%. Silver was up 1.58% and gold was 0.92% up.
- McConnell announced plans to unveil the new $300B relief bill and took procedural steps needed to set up a vote "as soon as this week." Schumer and Pelosi said "Republicans bill which doesn't come close to addressing the problems and is headed nowhere"
- Analyst Upgrades:
- $MSFT Microsoft had a nice boost by Morgan Stanley $MS who raised its price target from $230 to $245
- $PTON Peloton had Price Target raised by Wedbush from $66 to $100
- $RPD Rapid7 Target raised by $MS Morgan Stanley $55 to $60 (nice stock check it out)
- $SFIX Stitch Fix initiated by Deutsche Bank at BUY with pt $34
- $SPCE Virgin Galactic Upgraded by Credit Suisse from $22 to $24 and NEUTRAL to OUTPERFORM.
Notable Earnings for Tomorrow Thur Sept 10: Chewy CHWY (AH), Dave & Busters PLAY (AH), Oracle ORCL (AH), Peloton PTON (AH)
Interesting recent CEO purchase transactions: CWH $3MM, VST $750k, BKR $1MM, FRG $4.5MM, IVZ $3MM, SDC $10MM, PLAG $1.7MM
submitted by General Strategy:
After reading a few guides and watching Ymfah's
tutorial on the subject, I decided to eschew the commonly given advice to disregard weapon upgrades. I felt the advice, as good as it was, wasn't working for me, and I found that the low damage output was causing more durability cost in the long run. Buying 2-3 clubs every section was more expensive than just upgrading it and paying the repair costs.
I would normally end a section with a sliver of durability remaining. Breaking the weapon intentionally then paying to repair it felt more cost effective for me. Not only that, but boss fights felt much faster taking advantage of that sweet, sweet S scaling in STR for the Club (at +10).
As far as my target gear was concerned, I was able to hit the mark fairly accurately, with all upgrades completed except for the Royal Kite Shield and Elite Knight Gloves.
Final Gear:
Right Hand | Club +10 | Dragonrider Bow +5 | | | Chloranthy Ring +1 | Ring of Blades +1 |
Left Hand | Royal Kite Shield +5 | | | | Bracing Knuckle Ring +2 | Ring of Restoration |
| | | | | | |
-- | Elite Knight Armor +10 | Elite Knight Gloves +6 | Elite Knight Leggings +10 | | | |
| | | | | Wood Arrow x999 | |
Radiant Lifegem x20 | | | | | | |
I'm posting this today for a few reasons: Mostly to share my achievement with this community. Completely selfish boasting, yes. But I'm proud of myself, so, here it is. With that being said though, I also want to share this in case there are any of you out there are struggling with your own ND/NB runs looking for insight or guidance.
Stat priority:
Generally speaking, I only performed level-ups with the Herald between run sections (more below) when nothing else was needed (arrows, lifegems, etc.), and no further upgrades were available. Early on, I rushed strength to 30 to get some good damage output from the club with a single point in dexterity so I could pull/separate mobs with the Shortbow. After strength, I focused on Vigour, to add some measure of "error tolerance". By the time I was getting the Elite Knight set I dump few points into vitality for the extra load. Then dexterity gets pumped to 18 to carry the Dragonrider Bow, and the build is rounded out by getting Agility to the softcap at 110, and enough stamina to survive an extended trade of blows.
Late game stats focused on adding more damage and survivability by pumping strength to 50 and vigour to 45. I never got far enough to add more stamina, but that was the plan.
In order of priority, my stat level-ups were:
- Main Build: DEX: 12, STR: 30, VIG: 30, VIT: 12, DEX: 18, ADP: 25, END: 20
- Endgame: STR: 50, VIG: 45, END: 25, STR: 99
Final Stats:
Soul Level | 132 |
VGR | 45 |
END | 20 |
VIT | 12 |
ATN | 5 |
STR | 50 |
DEX | 18 |
ADP | 25 |
INT | 5 |
FTH | 5 |
Run Sections and Boss Weakness, Summons, & Consumables Info
I kept a copy of the following, updating as I went, making note of key locations, upgrades, bosses and their weaknesses, as well as any summons or weapon buffs I might use. The intent of this route is to pursue the path of least resistance through the game, based on my preferred playstyle. Although it may seem to veer off in some weird directions, each part of the path was taken for a specific reason. I've tried to annotate each section below.
In each section, I used some discretion in terms of "gut feeling" about where to go off the beaten path in the pursuit of loot or souls. For the most part though, I stayed on script.
Points of interest marked with '==' are intended to be full-stop "must farm" points. For example, if the 3rd mummy in Lost Bastille after the Tower Apart bonfire kicks or ruins the bomb shortcut to McDuff, I would bone back to Majula and run up to the eagle nest again, as gaining access to him and the +6 club is critical to success at the Ruin Sentinels.
Points marked with '--' are important "to do" notes while running that particular section, with the intent of completing the build, or picking up a necessary consumable.
I've marked bosses in bold, along with their known weaknesses, and any summons and/or consumables I used to complete the fight as quickly and with as little complexity as possible.
Feel free to use this route as a guide for your own run, but please be aware that YMMV. Your own run may take you into areas too dangerous or risky for your playstyle, or you may have different requirements in terms of loadout or buffs. I would be open to suggestions regarding improvements to the path or it's efficacy, but I'll be honest: I will never run this again.
*** To Forest of Fallen Giants
Objectives: Get 3 of the build's core rings and enough souls for brightbugs that we'll need later. Cale gives the key to the mansion which contains a Lockstone which will make No-Man's Wharf much easier.
-- Get Fire Longsword
-- Buy Lenigrast's Key, Club, Firebomb (for shortcut), Pharros' Lockstone from Melentia
-- Get Chloranthy Ring, Life Ring
Last Giant: F -- Get Ring of Restoration
Pursuer: L, Ballista -- Send Cale to Majula
-- Buy 3x Brightbug, Fragrant Branch from Melentia, send to Majula
*** To Things Betwixt
Objective: The Gold Pine Resin helps a tonne on the lost Sinner fight, and the one we pick up in Lost Bastille will be used on the Ruin Sentinels. Having both makes the following section much easier. Make sure to unlock Dyna & Tillo to make upgrading the Dragonrider Bow a little easier (by trading Petrified Somethings to them).
-- Get Gold Pine Resin
-- Unlock shortcut to Dyna & Tillo
*** To Lost Bastille via Eagle's Nest
Objective: Get the first Great Soul. Make sure to talk to Lucatiel, even if we're not going to use her for any fights in this section. The +6 upgrade is critical for Ruin Sentinels. Belfry Gargoyles souls are needed for early build damage and survivability.
== Buy Repair Powder from Lenigrast
== Buy Infantry Armor from Maughlin
-- Get Fragrant Branch from Dark Pursuer after The Tower Apart bonfire
-- Talk to Lucatiel, send to No-Man's Wharf
-- Bring Dull Ember to McDuff, Buy Royal Kite Shield, 1x Large Titanite, Repair Powder
== Get +6 Large Club
Ruin Sentinels: L/F/M, Brightbug + GPR -- Get Bracing Knuckle Ring
Lost Sinner: L, Brightbug + GPR Belfry Gargoyles: L/M, Masterless Glencour
*** To Shaded Woods
Objective: Get the Chloranthy Ring +1 and enough GPR for the rest of the run.
-- Free Rosabeth
== Buy 2x Orange Burr, Flame Quartz Ring from Rosabeth
== Buy 8x Gold Pine Resin from Head of Vengarl
-- Get Chloranthy Ring +1
*** To Lost Bastille via Heide's Tower of Flame
Objective: Gavlan has some Poison Moss and we need it. All of it. Get some RPR for Smelter Demon. The Mansion lockstone makes No-Man's Wharf much easier. Make sure to pick up the DPR from the first house before the stairs up to Luca, needed for Freja.
-- Get Lockstone from Mansion
== Buy Elite Knight chest, legs, gloves from Maughlin (11.6k)
Old Dragonslayer: F, no consumables needed Dragonrider: Itself. -- Talk to Licia, send to Majula
-- Talk to Lucatiel, send to Earthen Peak
== Buy 20x Poison Moss, 2x Rotten Pine Resin from Gavlan
-- Get Dark Pine Resin
Flexile Sentry: L, Lucatiel + GPR == Get Dragonrider Bow from Straid
*** To Iron Keep
Objectives: Creighton will tank the Lords while you fight their adds. He's got shit for damage, but he's tough. We need to make sure to send Gavlan to DOP and dump everything we're not using for the extra souls. If you want the Butcher's Knife, don't worry about Pate. Even though we only briefly pass through the Shaded Ruins, the souls invested in the Cursebite Ring are worth it. Make sure to talk to Lucatiel so she can tank the Smelter Demon.
-- Talk to Licia, move rotunda to Huntsman's Copse
-- Free Creighton
Skeleton Lords: Strike, L/M, Creighton -- Talk to Stone Trader Chloanne, send to Majula
-- Talk to Gavlan, send him to Doors of Pharros
-- Talk to Lucatiel, send to Black Gulch
Covetous Demon: Thrust (Longsword 2H R2) -- Talk to Laddersmith Gilligan, send to Majula
-- Talk to Pate, send to Brightstone Cove
Mytha: F, Jester Thomas == Buy 3x Charcoal Pine Resin, Fragrant Branch of Yore, Repair Powder, Cursebite Ring from Magerold
Smelter Demon: Strike, P, Lucatiel + RPR -- Turn off Bull Traps
Old Iron King: L, Brightbug + GPR
*** To Iron Keep
Objectives: Return for more damage and souls. The ring is worth it.
== Buy 3x Brightbug from Melentia
-- Get Ring of Blades +1 from Dark Pursuer in Smelter Demon's room
*** To Black Gulch
Objectives: Skip the entirety of Grave of Saints, and go straight to the Gutter. Skip everything in the Gutter and rush to The Rotten, making sure to find Lucatiel. She's not needed for the Rotten (fight is easy enough already) but she takes a lot of complexity out of the fight and turns it into a face roll. Black Gulch has 2 summons to help with getting through the area, use only one, based on taste. Using both will trigger 2 invasions, instead of just one.
== Buy Silvercat Ring
== Buy Gilligan's cheapest ladder
-- Talk to Lucatiel, send to Aldia's Keep
The Rotten: L/M, Lucatiel + GPR
*** To Brightstone Cove
Objectives: Tark is a great tank, pulls Najka's aggro big-time. Use the Cursebite ring to avoid curse jars. If you want the Butcher's Knife, make sure to get the Fang Key and rescue Ornifex. Otherwise, it's a straight shot, right up to the big ridiculous spider.
== Get Ring of Whispers
-- Talk to Manscorpion Tark
-- Talk to Creighton, send to Brightstone Cove
Najka: F, Manscorpion Tark + CPR -- Talk to Gavlan, get that swag.
Prowling Magus: AOE -- Trade Soul of The Rotten to Ornifex in exchange for Butcher's Knife
Duke's Dear Freja: D, Brightbug, Torch + DPR
*** To Undead Crypt
Objectives: In the final stretch now. Straight shot to Vendrick's room, ignoring everything except the BKR from the Crypt. Watch out for Nameless Usurper. Slow down for Shrine of Amana. Do NOT rush that area, unless you want to start a new file. Pull with the bow, nice and slow.
-- Buy Bracing Knuckle Ring +1, Repair Powder x4 from Wellager
Twin Dragonriders: P/M, Brightbug + Aromatic Ooze Looking Glass Knight: Ashen Knight Boyd Demon of Song: L/D, Brightbug + GPR -- Get Bracing Knuckle Ring +2 from Undead Crypt
Velstadt: Strike, L/M, Brightbug + GPR
*** To Dragon Shrine
Objectives: Skip everything. Rush the dragon. Use Sellsword Luet to get through the foyer invasions and giant basilisk.
Guardian Dragon: M/D/L, Brightbug + GPR
*** To Memory of Jeigh
Objectives: Skip everything. Rush the Giant.
Giant Lord: F, Brightbug + CPR
*** To Drangleic Castle
Objectives: Victory so close you can taste it. Slow and steady up to the Castle, skipping everything. Pull the mastodons with the bow, pepper them with arrows. No need for a risky fight now. It's in the bag. Just 2 more fights.
-- Light King's Gate bonfire
Throne Guards: F/L, Benhart + GPR (After fight, quickly use Black Separation Crystal & Aged Feather) Nashandra: Brightbug + Dark Quartz Ring +1, CPR
*** DO NOT SKIP THE CREDITS.
Logs
The following table contains the notes that I kept as I went through the process of learning and mastering this very specific path through the game.
Attempt # | Death Location | Reason | Post-Mortem Notes |
1 | Forest of Fallen Giants | Hollow soldier trio behind door near chloranthy ring | |
2 | Forest of Fallen Giants | Fell from scaffolding in back area on the way to Fire Longsword | |
3 | Forest of Fallen Giants | Fell from floor above Cardinal Tower bonfire, failing drop to get Divine Blessing | |
4 | Forest of Fallen Giants | Pursuer, first encounter near Cardinal Tower bonfire | |
5 | Lost Bastille | Ruin Sentinels | I really don't need the Stone Ring. Going to start skipping it until later |
6 | Iron Keep | Fencer Sharron, just past Threshold Bridge bonfire | |
7 | Iron Keep | Smelter Demon | Need to prep/farm for a poison weapon as part of my path up to this point or practice the fight without Lucatiel |
| | | Maybe I should prepare a bunch of save files so I don't have to do the run to Majula again... |
8 | Forest of Fallen Giants | Ogre ate me. Greedy, sloppy mistake. | |
9 | Forest of Fallen Giants | Turtle trio on roof by Soldier's Rest bonfire. Ruined Alfis body blocked my roll. Thanks Alfis. | Bought some Rotten Pine Resin from Gavlan. Hoping it's good enough to take down Smelter Demon. |
10 | Iron Keep | Old Iron King. Slapped me into the lava. Need more ADP. | Next run: Run up to turn off bull statues, then bone and spend, then make the run to OIK. |
| | | This also gets me the Ring of Blades +1 from the Pursuer in the Smelter Demon room on the way back. |
| | | Poison didn't do shit against Smelter Demon but Orange Burrs helped a lot. Maybe slash from longsword was the problem? Use +6 Club with Rotten Pine next run. |
| | | Also need to get mace or club to +6 before Iron Keep as it will help a tonne with Alonne Knights and Turtle Knights. |
11 | Forest of Fallen Giants | Eaten by Ogre. Again. Why do I keep attacking it?! | |
12 | Shrine of Amana | Pair of Archdukes gangbanged me in knee-deep water. Going for respec & NG+ attempt. | Rotten Pine Resin with +6 Club works nicely on Smelter Demon. |
12.5 | The Gutter | Knocked off ledge by a Rupturing Hollow. Worst way to blow a deep run, really disappointing. What a waste. | Longsword is a waste of time, as well as Red Rust Sword and Mastodon GS. Just go all-in on the Club and Large Club. Everything else is a waste of time. |
| | | Need 18 DEX and use Soul of Dragonrider to get Dragonrider Bow for it's STR scaling, better damage than Shortbow or Composite Bow. |
| | | Added Butcher's Knife to run route |
13 | Lost Bastille | Ruin Sentinels - Knocked off top ledge fighting first sentinel after a bad roll. Ended up having to fight all 3 at the same time, no lifegem windows. Clusterfuck City. | |
14 | Sinner's Rise | Knocked off ledge going to grab Human Effigy because I'm bad at this game. | |
15 | Forest of Fallen Giants | Returned to area after killing Belfry Gargoyles, killed by Ogre. Tried fighting with Large Club when I've never fought with the weapon before now. Seriously. Just stop attacking it. 1000 souls is not worth restarting a run. | |
16 | Successful Run. | | |
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TLDR; I got myself a pair of rings I will never use.
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submitted by Background: This is my 4th USS Nationals. I was a MWW for the first 2 years of competing and moved up to HWW just before 2016 Nats.
2015: 2nd in 165
2016: 3rd in 181
2017: 2nd in 181
2018: 4th in 181 (Was really hoping for 2nd or 3rd because Kim Derks is on a whole other level haha)
TL;DR because I am very long winded: Felt like my training prepared me pretty well for this event. Need to get more consistent with dumbbell and stronger on deadlift and stones. I’ll summarize how I trained at the end—I definitely feel like I came in at my strongest ever but the competition at the top was pretty fierce this year and “it’s a game of inches”.
I was the most nervous about giant dumbbell. Many of the ladies were unprepared for the girth of the handle because it was advertised as 2” and it definitely isn’t. I’m strong enough to get 100 pounds, on this dumbbell, but I get in my head. While we were standing around waiting for the comp to start I think my nerves got the best of me. I had two that were close to locking out, then 3 cleans that were not positioned well on my shoulder.
See second video in this post In retrospect I should have re-cleaned the DB to get a clean shot at it but I got flustered. One rep on this would have earned me a podium finish and still stings to think about. 7/10 zeroed in my class but I trained hard for this event and really wanted that one rep. CDB Is still the only event I’ve zeroed in a comp (twice now) so it’s a bit of a nemesis at this point.
Car deadlift was heavy. We had tested the Apollo frame a couple weeks ago with a Ford Focus and this felt almost exactly the same. For those who don’t know, the frame is in two pieces so the handle portion can be moved forward to make the lift easier; this was done for the LWW and MWW but not for the HWW. It changes the angle of the lever arm significantly. I figured I would get 1 or 2 reps here. I did the hitchiest deadlift I’ve ever done and then picked the car up about 1.5” three more times. 7/10 zeroed in my class and my 1 rep was good for 3rd.
We were finished with the first 2 events by noon and all signs pointed to us getting out by about 6. However, there seemed to be a lot of confusion when setting up the flip and drag event and it ended up being changed to a flip for distance, run back to the sled and drag (shorter distance). Video is combined with the DB. I should have done better in this event. Tire flip is my thing but I couldn’t get the tire to land flat so I could get right back to the next flip. I trained for sled drag with the Apollo sled on concrete + ~300#; this was maybe 450# but a completely different surface and I was a little slower paced at the event than in training. 3rd again.
I’ll spare you the details, but 4 hours later I was setting up for my
truck pull. Only one woman out of 55 competitors finished the course. I could tell from watching that there was a certain point where there must have been a low spot in the floor and everyone struggled (maybe around the halfway/40’ mark). So my strategy was to try to build speed through that point so I could keep it moving. I felt good about the event after I finished and watched my video, but it turned out that I would have needed to pull it another 14 inches or so to continue my 3rd place streak and instead I got 5th. My short reach hurt me (I’ve been cued to reach further forward on the recovery) but I think I did about as well as I could have. Maybe if my foot hadn’t slipped off the platform I would have had time for one more pull at the end.
Then it was time to get ready for stones. Strategy for this event all along was to get the first 3 stones fast and then take a shot at the last 265 stone (195/215/240/265 was the series). My stones ended up going
pretty smoothly, though not particularly fast; I got 3 in just over 30s. It’s hard to tell from the angle but for some reason I took a couple seconds to find my hand position under the stone each time. I made the rookie mistake of not setting my stones before I went—the 2nd stone was slightly too close to the truck and the last stone wasn’t even aligned with the platform. I also didn’t have enough tacky on the back of my hand for the last two stones; I used it on the 240 and then I really needed more to have a shot at picking 265. Despite all the complaints I saw about too much tacky on the stones that was only true of our first two stones (that had the most competitors touching them); the last two stones were fairly clean. 4th in this event.
Training/Lessons I switched coaches in mid-April from my Oly-focused coach to a PL-focused local coach who trains quite a few of the strongwomen at our gym too. I’m happy with my decision. I felt a little rushed with ~9-10 weeks to get ready since I haven’t really trained events much at all since Nationals last year. My training centered around squat, deadlift, and some benching with a TON of back work. More than anything I think that helped the most. I had done a qualifying contest in March and was able to get a 90# CDB for 3 reps so I felt confident that I would get the 100# dumbbell in time. Unfortunately the Bigg Dogg was pretty inconsistent for me due to the handle size. Because I only expected to get 1 or 2 reps, I always trained between 1-3 reps and I should have practiced a couple times going for the whole minute. As I got tired my cleans got sloppy; I’m not sure if I would have been able to lock it out but I would have had a better chance had I known how to deal with fatigue better.
The tire at the event felt lighter than the one I trained on, but I could not get the rhythm of getting it to land flat. I basically did this event for 3 rounds once a week in training and felt like that prepared me well but I was already pretty good at tire flip (my coach told me to win this event!. My No Bulls provided sufficient traction on the floor (some people were bemoaning their footwear choices).
Truck pull I practiced by pulling a 400-500# prowler. Then I trained with friends twice using a pickup with a tire hitched off the back to add friction, as well as an actual Budget truck with ~500# in the back. The actual event felt pretty similar to my practice with the Budget truck because the parking lot had a bit of a hill towards the end. I honestly expected the floor to be more level than it was. I’m not really sure what I could have done different in training other than practice with a truck a few more times. I really should have eaten some real food before this event; I ate as much as I usually do for a 6-7 hour contest without really realizing that we were there for 13 hours!
For stones, some people were saying that the platforms were higher than they were supposed to be because of the lip on the edge; I found the lip actually helped me because I tend to get larger diameter stones stuck right on the edge of a 48” platform. My coach made me train to 48” and I missed 246 to that height more often than I made it. But I had no problem at all getting 240 up on the truck so that felt good!
All the staff and volunteers were amazing, even as the day grew long everyone I dealt with was still supportive and trying to help make it a good day for all the athletes. That being said, any competition with close to 400 athletes is bound to have some snafus. I personally would prefer a more selective qualification process that might cut down the number of competing athletes slightly OR move to a 2-day format. It doesn’t seem that the heavy weights result in people self-selecting not to sign up. I can’t fault people since I attended my first Nationals being very new to the sport, but I cringed a bit when I saw someone trying to pantomime how to lap and load a stone in the back for someone who had never done stones before.
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View Detail Information with Complete [email protected] https://www.acumenresearchandconsulting.com/synthetic-paper-market The High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) segment among product type segment is expected to witness the most significant CAGR by virtue of the product qualities, for example, economical, high impact strength, moisture resistance, chemical resistance, and easy processing ability enabling its use in numerous applications.
Key manufacturers are engaged with using polyester-based films for creating products including luggage tags, nameplates, restaurant menus, ID cards, pricing placards, door hangers, and so on. Also, the polypropylene-based synthetic paper segment is estimated to develop at a noteworthy rate of development inferable from its preferences including chemical resistance, recyclability, low cost, flexibility, and so on. Various key players present in the synthetic paper industry are focusing on entering into long-term supply relationships with selected business partners, in order to obtain a competitive edge.
Browse All official Market Research Reports Press [email protected] https://www.acumenresearchandconsulting.com/press-releases Explore Our Market [email protected] https://www.acumenresearchandconsulting.com/blogs North America to Grow at the Highest Rate in Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT) Devices Market The Asia-Pacific synthetic paper market is contributing a high share in the worldwide market, in terms of revenue, owing to the extreme demand for synthetic paper and anticipated to grow with its predominance over the next 10 years. Moreover, expanding interest for the target product from the region is growing from developing end-use sectors, for example, chemicals, cosmetics, and food & beverage to the improved way of life combined with expanding disposable income of the common people in the emerging economies. Besides, Japan is the key contributor in this region, which adds to over 32% of the overall demand for synthetic paper in the district. The expansion in the consumption of synthetic paper in packaging, food & beverages, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and printing industries has been seen in the Asia-Pacific region attributable to consistent industrialization alongside development in the manufacturing sector in the region. The consistent development and advancements alongside modern organizations are anticipated to expand at a significant rate of growth in the coming years. The target product demand from Europe is projected to observe a second most notable CAGR due to the expanding utilization of witness a second highest CAGR on account of the increasing consumption of packaged foods attributed to the rising working populace.
Key players contributing the global synthetic paper market are Agfa-Gevaert N.V., American Profol Inc., Arjobex SAS, HOP Industries Corporation, MDV Papier GmbH, Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, PPG Industries, Inc., Relyco Sales, Inc., Seiko Epson Corporation, Transilwrap Company, Inc., and Yupo Corporation.
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