 Ladies and gentlemen, Corrupted Strength Classic 2022 first annual, just chopped it off my boy Russ. We're here in H-Town. I don't know where we are because Houston is so fucking big, but we're here at some kind of hotel. Lipton's already started. We're about to get ready for the second session, I believe. We're here with the whole, all the boys, man, John, JP, Barton, and Eames running around. All the other homies are coaching. Okay. Diego and Joe are already in the mix. A lot of Lipton going on, so we're going to see, probably some big listeners, I think there's some big name Lipters going on, and see what the event's about. So stay tuned. It's good, man. Energy's good in there, actually. Energy's good. A lot of new faces to the sport, which is really dope. A lot of people, I can tell they're younger, they're excited, and that's kind of what you need in any sports. You need some, like, fresh blood to be excited about shit. It just naturally happens in other sports where, like, NBA, you retire, then the new freshman, the new rookies, but, like, in this sport, it used to be an old head sport. You can see, you know, like, high school, college, poor things, running the meat, she's probably in her 20s, she's running the whole thing going crazy. Like, everyone's young and hungry. It's cool. That's what you need. A bit more diverse. Way more diverse. Age, race, where they're from, that's good. Dope, I love the powerlifting community. Maybe even a little bit more than the bodybuilding community. I'm not gonna lie. Just because whenever you go to a powerlifting gym, everybody hypes each other up, so it's cool. It's like a little family, even if you don't know each other. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe two or three? Yeah. It's been a minute though, so I haven't been since college, because I had powerlifting buddies, but this is definitely the biggest one. Yeah. I don't think it would be fair to ask you to rank a woody. No, no, no. Okay, if I did have to rank it, this is number one. For sure, yeah, no. This is the biggest one I've been to, is dope. Okay. Yeah, a lot of people here. Do you plan on going to, like, more powerlifting? I mean, if you guys invite me. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll try. I'll invite you? Whenever I plan on a powerlifting, maybe, maybe. So, after I'm done with bodybuilding, I'm probably not going to compete again. So I want to go and do different things, you know, martial arts, maybe powerlifting. So I enjoy squat bench dead. So if I get strong and good at it, and I don't embarrass myself, then maybe I'll do it. You know, maybe if, uh, Tim and, uh, Joe, you know, then I'll do some with that. Yeah. Okay, cool. Here we are today at the Corrupted Classic 2022. Here we are. Okay. Yeah, here we are. How do you like this one for? Dude. Yeah, I pulled Russ aside earlier, and I told him, despite this being his first meet, this is probably one of the best, if not the best, local meet that I've ever been to. Now, granted, the last time that I was on Mike's channel, we were at PowerFest. And granted, that was an amazing meet that was run. But Russ and his team, like, I talked to him, they ran to a few hiccups, as any meet director does. We can tell you from experience, but, you know, him and his team, they really pulled it together. Gia's doing an awesome job. Hi, Gia. They're doing an awesome job and everything. And yeah, I would say this is my top three of local meets. Oh, this is... Top three. Top three. Okay, okay. Do you have a plan on coming back? Yeah, so I was actually talking to the guys a little bit, and I'll always love powerlifting, whether it's as a competitor or someone that's just trying to promote the growth of the sport. I'm going to come back to it. I kind of want to compete at least one more time before I turn 30. Then I take a look at guys like LS who were like mid-40s, and they're still PR-ing in the gym. So like I said, I'll always be passionate about it. I want to compete at least one more time. Emphasis on at least one more time, because I've got a vengeance for person goals. I was 0.01 away from becoming a pro. You know that? It was great from your last meet, right? 99.99, and I need the 100, because I got called on down twice. I'm going to say that pop-up. That's neither here. It's okay. But you're coming for it. I am coming for it. I would like to get my pro card, and I'd be happy. I'd be happy. Tintibito the pro? Tintibito the pro. Professional powerlifter. TTPP. TTPP. Tintibito professional powerlifter. Do you like how diverse powerlifting has become? How was it before when you came into it? So when I came into powerlifting, I would say it started growing a little bit, because I would say this is during the golden era of YouTube or social media fitness, and this is when I started watching Johnny Candido, and if you go to any powerlifter that's around my age, or has been competing as long as I have, chances are they're going to say Johnny Candido got them into the sport. And that's when a handful of people started signing up for USA for yelling everything. But then you get more and more content creators on the platform, especially today with TikTok. I saw a few very popular TikTokers competing in this meet today. I'm like, damn, we have something really special going on right here. I didn't know the powerlifting was going to get as big as it is today. Which is really one of the things that I set out to do. I care so much about the sport that I don't necessarily need to be the best competitor, but as long as the sport is moving in an upward direction in terms of growth and popularity, that's really all I care about. We're never going to be in the Olympics, that really doesn't matter that much. But as long as we get more of the general public competing in powerlifting, that's really all that matters. So I would say it's in a really good spot. I was actually talking to this one kid today. He came up to me, asked me for a picture, and I asked him how he did it at the meet. And he's like, oh, I took a couple of records, like the squat record, bench record, and the total record. And I asked him how old he is, kid 17. He's 17. I started competing when I was 21 or 22. And I told him that he's a really, really good spot. And his generation, they're responsible for this upswing in growth right now in powerlifting. So it's in a really good spot. I know that was a long drawn out answer. But I'm just so passionate about the growth of the sport that it's awesome seeing the younger population competing. So it's in a good spot. Thank you for being here, man. We appreciate you, Tim. Appreciate you, man. Love you. We love you over here. Can we get the, there we go. Nice. Tom, since I've seen, I don't even know, seven folks pull over seven in the same meet, and they're not all big dudes. They're all like 100 kilo, 110 kilo. So sports come a long way, man. It's kind of cool to kind of, obviously I've been in a long time. And then we're coming back from like the COVID sleepiness, opening third street stuff. I've been a little locked down on the grind there and getting things flowing. So now we're back on the road and getting our faces out to not only see old friends, make new friends, people I've seen on the internet. I see how far the sports come. It's pretty crazy, man. So shout out to the corrupted team. Give it a day, shout out to Russ and the guys for putting on the meet and having us out here to hang out. We'll catch you the next week. I'm going to go get some food. I'm going to go to bed. I think we're going to train with the boys to stay tuned for more vlogs, more training here from Houston, H-Town. Be apart of something bigger than yourself, man. We have a meet, we'll see you every Monday, Thursday.