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What's this Eric Brown getting exposed stuff?!
I haven't been in this subforum since like 2016ish.
I haven't been in this subforum since like 2016ish.
I've been around the forum for awhile, and I don't ever remember westside ideologies being popular with anyone here. There were few to none geared powerlifters in the forum, most of the regulars lifted raw. The "raw revival" had little effect on the forum.It was the culture that this forum had that killed it. It was the powerliftings bro culture equivalent. You couldn't even mutter the words hypertrophy in here because Urban or someone else at the time would lambast you for talking about things like "biceps" and "bodybuilding".
I remember ths one time back then,some new poster posted video of himself doing DB hammer hammer curls with like 110lb DBs and he weighed no more than 180lbs. Sure it was misplaced in this forum but still it's rather impressive. Needless to say everyone just sort of ripped on him because it wasn't "deadlifts yo"
Then the raw powerlifting scene had a revival, Westside and being a fat fuck wasn't the end all be all of ideologies and YouTube was created which slowly challenged and eroded the dogma preached around here.
I was here in the beginning and that's what drove me off so it's just my opinion.
It's just my interpretation/opinion. The culture on this forum was not conducive to longevity and as the powerlifting scene integrated more with bodybuilding and people like Dan green and Stan efferding started to pop up it was appearent that alot of the dogma preached around here was just bull shit.I've been around the forum for awhile, and I don't ever remember westside ideologies being popular with anyone here. There were few to none geared powerlifters in the forum, most of the regulars lifted raw. The "raw revival" had little effect on the forum.
It was the culture that this forum had that killed it. It was the powerliftings bro culture equivalent. You couldn't even mutter the words hypertrophy in here because Urban or someone else at the time would lambast you for talking about things like "biceps" and "bodybuilding".
I remember ths one time back then,some new poster posted video of himself doing DB hammer hammer curls with like 110lb DBs and he weighed no more than 180lbs. Sure it was misplaced in this forum but still it's rather impressive. Needless to say everyone just sort of ripped on him because it wasn't "deadlifts yo"
Then the raw powerlifting scene had a revival, Westside and being a fat fuck wasn't the end all be all of ideologies and YouTube was created which slowly challenged and eroded the dogma preached around here.
I was here in the beginning and that's what drove me off so it's just my opinion.
What's this Eric Brown getting exposed stuff?!
I haven't been in this subforum since like 2016ish.
It used to be a land of hustle and bustle, with cutthroat inhabitants. It’s slow paced and strangely calm now? What happened here?
You’re out in general population? Don’t be salty about getting sodomized in the OT lol. If you’re nice I’ll give you back your scalp that smells like rancid olive oil. I might even wash it and sew back on for you.
To be fair. I don’t recognize yours either.I've been here since like 2002.
My old training log got deleted because I'd had it so long (and was updating it every day).
People move on, interests change, home life changes.
Also, other than Phlog, I haven't seen any of your names before.
You’re out in general population? Don’t be salty about getting sodomized in the OT lol. If you’re nice I’ll give you back your scalp that smells like rancid olive oil. I might even wash it and sew back on for you.
Snitches get stitchesyou self delusional troll are lucky that I'm not a rat to report your post
To be fair. I don’t recognize yours either.
I have seen you before, many times actually. I changed my name though and wasn't a significant poster when i was younger.Fair one. I sort of lost touch with posting when I starting working full time in 2006.
Which is why my training log doesn't often get updated.
What's this Eric Brown getting exposed stuff?!
I haven't been in this subforum since like 2016ish.
What was your name before? Did we interact?I have seen you before, many times actually. I changed my name though and wasn't a significant poster when i was younger.
I don't think the Eric thing had any impact. I think it is just forum fatigue. There are only so many questions that you can answer about basic S&C, and in truth very few of us know more than the basics anyway. For years and years we answered the same questions about building a strength base, high weight versus high reps, hill sprints versus LISS, whether CrossFit is good. And people just got tired. More and more people who used to answer questions, or at least join in threads and make jokes while other people answered questions, moved to the Pub and chatted and bitched about how crap the main forum was. And then people on the Pub got bored and drifted off and did something else.
This happened before, when I started posting in 2010 or 2011 we were at the tail end of a changeover, the old strong as fuck members that Cratos styled himself after were moving over to 'the other forum', but a bunch of new people were coming along- Miaou, Tosa, DrB etc. And a lot of those people lasted a long time. Now most of that generation has left or is just posting in the pub. And unlike the last time, a new group hasn't really come through. There are a few knowledgeable people still posting, like Sano, but it's just a few people rather than a whole bunch.