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Published: 2017-09-08
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcspS1RQDaw
right term so when I was nine years old %HESITATION handled that of trouble sleeping for about three months %HESITATION and that was because I didn't hear the gunshots sort of serenading me to bed every night %HESITATION that was at the same time when I moved to the United States was to Massachusetts %HESITATION and so I continued on living you know life as as the youngest head
and %HESITATION I think there was always sort of a filter their right %HESITATION I would do to whatever activities with maybe a little bit more I swear and %HESITATION I just remember one time I believe I was in high school and I was looking at a you tube video of an Olympic we left her and she happened to be a woman and I was completely fascinated
%HESITATION I just I could not understand how somebody could take hundreds of pounds in this bivalve and list them over their head and it happened a one point two seconds so obviously what you would do is you have to draw that out so you can understand it's I would go frame by frame %HESITATION ends job those sequences of what's called this national but lifting and at
that time %HESITATION it was too fast that he wouldn't get %HESITATION the part where you lifting it over your head and it's falling down so I tried to learn it myself so go you know go to the gym %HESITATION being a high school and just try to look at what day and it wasn't really working out some I continued and I went %HESITATION on to college
and a member going into the strength and conditioning room one day and I asked the head coach %HESITATION appellee cross if he could teach me so %HESITATION so he did through his office right and I just fell in love with it and I don't know what it was but I salt sort of that whom and %HESITATION you know I guess I continue just practicing in a
because I fell in love with the sound and I told Ali which is the head coach there knew he %HESITATION was apparent well maybe I could introduce international coats and you know I didn't I didn't go for it for a little while %HESITATION and then when I did after I graduated college %HESITATION I found out some things that sort of puzzled means what happens is what
the real Olympic bars %HESITATION th the body spins whenever you're doing either the clean and jerk on the scratch enemies this clicking sound and the clicking sound is so loud %HESITATION and that it sounds very reminiscent of a gunshot it is the you know when you're in such a tight space in the team and you're hearing your team members making a left if you make a
left you always have a clicking sound so it would be like like and then you drop in a huge explosion right so as not to hurt yourself so just here in the us like clicking and a huge explosion and it was all compressed into one tiny room where we were when we were trained and I images brought me back to till the end which is where
I'm from and %HESITATION at the time in nineteen ninety seven when I was about eight years old %HESITATION there was a civil war and %HESITATION it was very very it was a very loud time %HESITATION and my father he was %HESITATION director of the ministry of education and sports in the country and you need a very difficult decision %HESITATION to close the schools for three months
%HESITATION and my sister and I had the opportunity to sort of pick out whatever curriculum we wanna for those three months and obviously I gravitated towards trying if you take a look what I did for three in the hallway of the house of the gunshots wouldn't come through and then I go back to this team and you're in this again this really tiny room where although
you know Olympic of desire training and you're making the sounds and I was so taken by that I even went as far as to investigate it further and %HESITATION get my MSA so that %HESITATION I could understand what it means to hold something over your head because that's what it really team down to the Olympic lifting was obviously a metaphor %HESITATION for immigration for mean %HESITATION
four times of war for being a female in a male dominated society %HESITATION and and so I did and %HESITATION what this video shows %HESITATION is that I need a special barbell so that I could hold my parents %HESITATION I mean well that those barbell and I need a functional somehow and I what did the team was that I really wanted to list the way to
my parents and knowing that maybe that's not possible actually knowing that that is impossible but it's sort of this Sufian mess where you you get a reward from continuing to try and I'm they are the mythical giants of you know my life and the thing is it's not we as in the sense of a bird and write it system we in the sense of a celebration
because you want to live up to that legacy and you want to put them up on a pedestal in in and lift them up because above everything they've done for you %HESITATION but maybe you can never fully do that because %HESITATION you know they the way that they carry in the sack sacrifices that they need %HESITATION isn't something you can ever physically %HESITATION left by continue
trying and I and I kept you know thinking so assume we lifting it you know it has gone beyond this metaphor right of of immigration being a female it's become something so much bigger than that for me com it's that the the sound now that %HESITATION I me I choose to make that I am proud to me is my own and I am not a victim
of these like sounds of of warfare right that I and choosing to make these sounds in this for the first time %HESITATION salts like Yahoo made this at this week lifting Jen because I knew that there was something there that I haven't have to into before and I realize that everyone has something or someone that they want to let's in their lives and that's that's what
I hope that %HESITATION I inspire others to think about what do you have in your life that you want to %HESITATION up in the air and holds above your head thank you I have this opportunity and I've been reflecting a lot on who my audience is going to be today but to %HESITATION there's a lot of high school students and I decided to bring the barbell
that I need here %HESITATION ands I have thought a lot about my time in high school and how much we I had placed on me and the pressures that you have a case because of such have little time and I and I thought these amazing scene of a pub does hold had talked together %HESITATION the they must all be holding something that weighs a lot no
live so I wanted to pick two scenes from the audience that on would like to say in these chairs and hold some things that symbolize week for that %HESITATION and who knows maybe I can try to lift them up and if not we'll go onto the next up and see if someone will help me but who who was %HESITATION willing to come often are a I
think it %HESITATION so can I ask what you brought your where zero we well you are the sort of past that introverted aspects is useful idea five minutes for my visa while the main thing on well so asleep you first of all can I ask a favor because before I tried to lift you acting on do you need to warm up like because I've been sitting
in a chair so %HESITATION maybe could stand up for one moment to sort of so I can see if I can do those deals with a regular work well %HESITATION alright like this I don't want to sound like I'm actually formed a okay okay so I also brought something that's actually very special to be entered now if I was going to bring up but I did
you know there's some a weightlifting belt I'm actually embroidered admits %HESITATION it's pretty amazing so I thought I would try to wear let's see if it still fits I might be look it's a very funny belts work with the stress okay don't don't know my style who implantable it's really difficult to put on this our area and I don't typically do this in here let's just
