If you look closely, there are red straps on his wrists. These strap the bar to the wrists, a common practice deadlifting big weights, because your back muscles are stronger than your wrist muscles, and while you can do a few more reps with your back, your hands give up. That said, even if he released his fingers, the barbell would still stay where it is (not precisely, but it wouldn’t just drop).
Also, just releasing the back muscles and falling with the barbell isn’t a good idea because it can lead to serious spine injuries. I did it once, thankfully, with very mild consequences, but a few days of pain taught me never to repeat this.
Generally, greediness in weight lifting is a bad thing, if you bit more than you can chew, there’s no good way to wiggle out of it unless you have a partner with you. And yes, if your positive phase (lifting up) looks like that, you definitely should be more humble, the weight that you absolutely can’t control on both way up and down is too much.
I don't need to Google anything, I was using a pair when I wrote that comment. If they aren't tight enough they don't aid your grip in any way. You physically cannot get out of them while the bar is in the air.
I don't know why you're arguing so hard about a product you haven't used to people who have.
Yeah so first there's no need to be insulting, second I was directly responding to you telling someone else they didn't come in multiple sizes.
I don't care that you own a pair, so do I and I think you're using them wrong. If you can't slide out of them on demand, you can make a sudden moderate injury situation instantly worse by not being able to release and instead having to balance further damage against "hmm which piece of equipment should I let myself hit on the way down". The tension of the clenched hand should be all it takes to it on, like a raccoon fist trap. If yours are tighter than that, they're too tight for safe dismount.
Just because you have a way you like to use them doesn't make it the only way to use them, or safe, or correct.
I'm talking to you like this because your misinformation could get somebody injured.
How much are you lifting in them? If you are able to slide out they are not only too loose, you have literally put them on wrong and they won't be helping at all. They go entirely around the bar, they don't hold your hands shut. You can lift the bar without even having your hands on it if you want. If you want to slide out of straps get lasso ones instead.
I was talking normal lifting straps. And looking at figure 8 looks like your hand could slip right through if you let go it doesn’t look like there’s any way they’ll get stuck.
I'm literally using fig 8s right now as I type this. Your hand does not slip out, it has to twist round and come out parralell to the ground. You have to go down with the bar, there's no way to get out without the bar on the ground.
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u/UW_Ebay 4d ago
Damn why didn’t he just let go??? If he didn’t injure himself with that poor form he almost certainly did during the fall. Hope he’s ok.