All discussion and questions concerning the 23-25 October 2009 weightlifting meet is warmly welcome here. 

Sign up for the meet here.

I created a quick writeup of Virtualmeet on my (very) new blog. Hopefully it will generate some publicity for you!

http://www.mantisfit.com/compete-anywhere/

The rest of the site is still under construction, which is why it's a bit bare.

Warren

Warren, way cool! A very well-written post that sums it up extremely well. Thanks a lot.

Also, nice site you put up. I was excited to learn that you are a kung fu instructor with your own club, hats off for that. Do you have your students do weightlifting too?

Best of luck with the blog, I burned your feed.

Now let's see if anyone out there is ready to join you for the meet... the sign-up deadline is approaching rapidly.

Thanks Kris! The site is still a bit bare bones (no pics yet!) but it's early days. I enjoy writing so I'm aiming to do around 3 posts a week to start with. Once all the media and site copy is up I'm going to do an SEO push, which will hopefully result in more traffic for both of us!

I'm also a qualified gym instructor, so I'm looking to start strength training classes privately. At the moment I'm still working on the program design - something for the general public and something geared towards fighters.

If no one else signs up in time, does the meet get postponed/cancelled?

Looking forward to seeing your site evolve, sounds like you've got a good focus and know precisely where you're going.

If no one else signs up in time, does the meet get postponed/cancelled?

Not unless you don't want to go alone. I can well see a case for not wanting to do that, but basically if there is people in a meet (for which they may have been preparing for some time) we never cancel. The lack of lifters is probably at least partially due to me not having put much effort in site PR over the last year or so with my focus so strongly on finally shipping version 2... like you, that's when I put in a new push in getting more people aware of what's happening here. In that respect, I really appreciate it when people like you go out there and spread the word. Wish there were more hours in a day, but you've got to set priorities.

If it's only me, then would it be possible to lift a day earlier? I'm training at the Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club every Thursday. Last week I set 2 PRs, and if I do that again Friday lifting could prove tough!

By the way, they're also trying to shut down the BGWLC. You'll already see the link on my site Kris, but for anyone else who wants to save a piece of weightlifting history

http://www.savebgwlc.org

Looking forward to version 2 of the site.

If it's only me, then would it be possible to lift a day earlier? I'm training at the Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club every Thursday. Last week I set 2 PRs, and if I do that again Friday lifting could prove tough!

In this case I don't really see why not since it makes things smoother at your end. But let's make it clear for future reference, that this is an exception done for an exceptional meet.

Yeah, I read the BGWLC stuff... sad that the people who make the decision don't really see it from the eyes of the weightlifting community. Based on the picture on the site, the gym is cool even if one would totally disregard its historical significance etc. Shutting down a gym is generally speaking seldom a wise decision.

Well, our newest member Patrick Furphy saved us from the first one-man meet in the history of Virtualmeet.net. Welcome to the site and hope you have a great first one Patrick!

The upload instructions have now been sent out to the both of you. One week to go until meet weekend!

Good luck, all. I'll be traveling this weekend, and will send you visions of strong, successful lifts and many PRs. Just Tweeted ya'll~

Good luck from me as well. Fingers crossed for new PRs!

No PRs for me this time round. I was poorly prepared, and overdid it in the gym the day before. Will know better for next time.

Warren and Patrick, thanks for good and prompt uploads. I'll get the show on the road tomorrow.

Update: the meet is ready for the judges, but I am still doing the rounds rounding up the usual suspects to act as judges. Stay tuned.

I'm willing to judge if you need people.

I'm willing to judge if you need people.

I sure do, warmly appreciated. Jeff, I'll send you all the details on how to do the judging when the meet is released to the judges.

Two more to go, I've asked a some people if they would (again) be willing to help out, I'll keep you updated.