Welcome to 2022 Individual Barbell Classic!

Our ALL LIFTING event is back for the fourth time. This is 5 lifts only and a great time to PR!  We will be using a combined lifting total to determine our overall BEST lifter (OLY(sinclair score)+Power(Wilks Score))  The Wilks and Sinclair methods are used to normalize lifted weights against the lifter's bodyweight.  The 5 lifts are Snatch, C&J, Back Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift (in that order).

This is a great event to mark your calendar with and coming out to set some personal bests. Over the past Three years of this event we have had 90%+ of our athletes setting at least 1 PR and we have people that have gone 5 for 5. We hope to see you out for our 4th year of this event.

Event Details:

Snatch

Clean and Jerk

Back Squat

Bench press 

Dead Lift

Athletes: Each athlete will be permitted to bring one person onto the lifting floor with them while they attempt their lifts.  This person will help the athlete load the bar with weights, may encourage the athlete, may aid in racking or re-racking a loaded bar, and may provide a spot if needed (any lift completed with the aid of a spotter will NOT count as a successful lift).  This person who comes out on the floor with you may be another competitor in the event who is lifting in another heat, or they can be someone who is not participating in the event.  This person may not interfere with anyone else who is on the lifting floor.  Weight is allowed to be on the bar prior to “3,2,1, lift” (i.e. bars don’t need to be empty)

ONLY Acceptable equipment: Chalk, Lifting shoes, Compression Socks, Knee Wraps or sleeves, weight belts, elbow wraps or sleeves, wrist wraps.  Lifting straps that aid in gripping the bar are NOT permitted.  Squat suits, bench shirts, etc are NOT permitted.  

Judges and Movement Standards: Judges will be provided to you.  Movement standards will be as follows (*This is NOT a Traditional OLY or Power Lifting Meet, some standards are different*):

Clean and Jerk – The bar starts on the ground and ends up in the front rack position on the athlete.  The bar is then jerked overhead and the athlete finishes the lift completely stood up with the bar locked out overhead.  Acceptable variations will be lifting the bar from the ground, but then starting the lift from the hang position.  Any method of getting the bar overhead is acceptable (strict press, push press, push jerk, split jerk).  Any variation of clean is acceptable (split clean, muscle clean, power clean, squat clean).  Both feet must finish together underneath the athlete and control of the bar must be visible to the judge.  

Snatch – The bar starts on the ground and ends up held over the athlete's head with the athlete fully standing up.  The bar cannot come in contact with the athlete’s chest, shoulders, head, or neck during the lift.  The bar cannot be caught any lower than the top of the athletes head.  If the athlete falls to a knee, or both knees, or their butt, they can still try to save the lift by standing it up from there.  As long as the bar starts on the ground, stopping at the hang position and then completing the lift from there is acceptable.  Acceptable variations will be muscle snatch, power snatch, squat snatch, split snatch.  

Back Squat – The bar starts in the rack.  Athlete takes the bar from the rack and starts it an upright standing position.  Lowers until hip crease is below their knee (below parallel) and then stands back up to upright with hips open.   Stations will NOT have safety squat arms.  Please know how to fail safely on a squat.  If you don’t know what I am talking about watch this VIDEO

Deadlift – The bar starts on the ground and is lifted by the athlete until shoulders are behind the bar and hips are open with athlete standing upright (knees, hips, and shoulders are in line).  BOTH Sumo and Conventional style lifts are permitted for this competition.

Bench press – The bar starts in the rack.  The athlete (he can use the spotter for a lift off the rack) takes the bar from the rack and starts with arms fully outstretched.  Bar is lowered and must come in contact with the chest and then is pressed back to arms being full outstretched.   Arching of the back is permitted.  Once the arms return to a locked out position, the spotter may help guide the bar back into the rack.  Here is a VIDEO that displays these standards, NOTE: we will NOT be judging this lift based on your butt/hips this year.  We do not have trained powerlifting judges, and enforcing this standard correctly and evenly is not a possibility.  Again, we will NOT be judging based on your butt/hips.  If they lift off the bench, that will still be considered an acceptable lift.  

Warm-up Area:  We will have a large warm up area that can be used prior to you taking the floor.  During the bench event, there will only be 2 extra benches in the warm up area.  If any athlete wishes to bring their own bench to the warm up area, you may.    All areas and equipment MUST be shared.  

SCORING:  The scoring for this event will be different than what is traditionally used for OLY/Powerlifting Meets.  Usually you have weight classes and break everyone up into their own small groups.  Since we aren’t bound to be traditional, we have come up with a method to level the field for everyone involved.  

Each lift will be scored relative to the athlete's own body weight by way of the Sinclair Coefficient (Oly Lifts) and the Wilk’s Coefficient (Power lifts).  These coefficients sole purpose is to normalize a Total (either Oly or Power Lifting) across the range of lifters body weights.   The overall winner will be determined by their WILKS + their SINCLAIR combined TOTAL.  We will get to see who the best pound for pound power and oly lifters are, but the winners of this meet will be determined by that COMBINED TOTAL of all 5 lifts (WILKS + SINCLAIR)

Click here to see the SCOREBOARD to visually see the scoring method and how the numbers work

For more on SINCLAIR

For more on WILK's

The way this will work is EVERYONE will weigh in at the beginning of the day.  Everyone will be weighing in on the same scale (and we do have an identical backup).  Athletes are allowed to strip down to undergarments, but we will not allow naked weigh-ins.  Athletes will only get one single weigh-in (i.e. you don’t get to weigh in, then go to the bathroom, then take your clothes off, then stand on your head for 5 min, then weigh in again to see if you weigh less).

For the purposes of this meet, men’s bars will be called 45#’s and women’s bars will be called 35#’s

LEX ARTIS SCALING POLICY

Lex Artis events will have ONE WRITTEN STANDARD for an event.  If you perform the workout as we have it written in the full event write up, you have competed as prescribed.  

Unless we state otherwise, WE ALLOW SCALING AT ANY OF OUR EVENTS!  Athletes can choose to scale ANY MOVEMENT, ANY REP COUNT, ANY WEIGHT to meet their own personal abilities.  Once you scale any part of the written workout your score will be entered into the leaderboard as a “scaled” score and it will fall below any team’s score that did that workout (scored part of a workout) as prescribed.  We will still judge you on your new standard, we will still keep your score, and it will still show up on the leaderboard.  You will not however be eligible for the podium.  If you only scale one scored part of one workout, that is the ONLY score that will show up on the leaderboard as “scaled”, all others will show that you did them as prescribed.  

IF you choose to scale a workout or part of a workout, YOU MUST LET YOUR JUDGE KNOW PRIOR TO STARTING THE WORKOUT.  You do not need to email us days or weeks ahead of time letting us know (this can be 100% a gametime decision.

 LEX ARTIS EVENT REFUND POLICY

 24 HOUR CANCELLATION RULE

Once you sign up for an event, you have 24 hours to withdraw for a 100% refund.  Requests MUST be made via email to info@lex-artis.net and time stamped within 24 hours of your registration receipt.  

GREATER THAN 30 DAY RULE

24 hours after your registration until 30 days prior to the event the MAXIMUM REFUND GRANTED WILL BE 50% of your registration fee MINUS PROCESSING AND PLATFORM FEES.  

30 DAY RULE 

At 30 Days prior to the event THERE WILL BE NO REFUNDS GRANTED

 ALL REFUND REQUESTS MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA EMAIL TO INFO@LEX-ARTIS.NET.  NO OTHER FORM OF COMMUNICATION WILL BE HONORED FOR REFUNDS.

• ASKING FOR A CREDIT TO A FUTURE EVENT IS A REFUND

• HOW MANY TEAMS WE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ON A WAITING LIST 

DOES NOT CHANGE OUR REFUND POLICY

• INJURIES DO NOT CHANGE THIS REFUND POLICY

 LEX ARTIS TEAM CHANGES POLICY

 After you sign up for an event, the team captain (the person who signed up via Throwdowns.com) will have a Throwdowns Account (username and password).  That team captain has the ability to login to www.throwdowns.com and get into the team details for the event.  From there they can edit teammates, team name, shirts, division, etc.  You do NOT need to email Lex Artis to make changes to your registration.

 AT 30 DAYS PRIOR TO THE EVENT DATE THIS FEATURE IS TURNED OFF (this is when we export information to process shirt orders and make heat schedules) 

 Lex Artis reserves the right to turn this editing feature off earlier than 30 days prior

**Changes to team information CAN POSSIBLY be made within 30 days, but requests must be sent to info@lex-artis.net.  Changes requested are not guaranteed in every situation**

 LEX ARTIS TRANSFER POLICY

 Transferring your registration to another individual or team is 100% depending on the event itself.  For some events this is a very easy swap.  Other events can ONLY handle transfers when you are replacing yourself or your team with someone of the same gender, division, weight needs, etc.   ALL TRANSFER REQUESTS must be emailed to INFO@LEX-ARTIS.NET.  NO OTHER FORM OF COMMUNICATION WILL BE RESPONDED TO FOR TRANSFER REQUESTS.   All requests are handled on a case by case basis.  If we are able to accommodate your request there is NO FEE involved with processing a transfer. 

 LEX ARTIS WAITING LIST POLICY

Once an event sells out, the ticket option will automatically change to WAITLIST SPOT ONLY.  There will be a 100% NON REFUNDABLE fee of $5/athlete (total fee will depend on individual or team size).  Waitlists will be limit to 10% of the total capacity of the event itself.  If/when a spot opens up, an invoice will be generated and sent to the email address that signed up for the waitlist.  That person will have 3 days to pay the invoice to secure their (or their team) spot in the event.  If the invoice is NOT paid, the invoice will be cancelled and they will be dropped back down to the bottom of the waiting list.  

At 30 days prior to the event, the 3 day rule on the invoice will NO LONGER BE IN EFFECT.  IF a waitlist still exists at that time ALL teams on the waiting list will be emailed and the spot will be given on a first come, first serve basis.

 E-mails requesting to be added to waiting lists will NOT be honored.  

 LEX ARTIS WORKOUT RELEASE POLICY

Lex Artis Event Management reserves the right to release workouts for events whenever we see fit.  Our general rule is 30 days prior to an event.  If an event has multiple dates it will be 30 days prior to the FIRST weekend  

LEX ARTIS PHOTO POLICY

By signing up for an event you are NOT guaranteed to get photos of yourself (or multiple photos of yourself).  We do our best to capture the event, but there are 100-200 of you and only one photographer.  If guaranteed photos of yourself are a priority you must bring your own photographer to shoot only you from behind the caution tape.  This doesn’t change the fact that we do TRY OUR BEST to get photos of everyone competing.

Photos will ALWAYS be posted within one week (7 days) of the event taking place.  Photos will be placed into an online album and shared via social media.  The link will also be posted to our website.    Photos can be downloaded from this link.  You are welcome to download and use these photos however you wish.  

If you have any questions, please reach out to Info@lex-artis.net for assistance.