Not to take anything away from the lifters
who wear double, or even single ply gear.
How can we even guage who is/was the best lifter ever?
When we have these rediculously inflated totals, with these
crazy bench shirts, and squat suits that can sit up by there selfs.
In my opinion it would b great to have some
uniformity and go raw, except for a belt.
Then we could know who really is the best out there.
Without the assistance from the gear, just
brute strength, raw power, and awsome technique.
I have mad respect for the lifters who bench raw in open meets,
and for the raw unity meets squating with only a singlet, and belt.
And seeing true totals not these rediculously inflated totals
in sum of these federations.
BTW: I have been competing on, and off in powerlifting since 1988
and hav competed raw, and with gear.