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BROKEN. RETESTED. REJECTED. THREE TIMES. Altcoin market cap head and shoulders. Neckline: $220B. Broke below. Retested from below. Rejected. That's the confirmation the textbooks describe. Above $240B: bulls prove the pattern wrong. Below $180B: $123B is the target. Altseason isn't coming. It's being delayed by this pattern.

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ALTSEASON IS BLOCKED BY THIS PATTERN. Altcoin market cap. Head and shoulders. Neckline $220B. Broken. Retested. Rejected. Above $240B: altseason opens. Below $180B: $123B target. Altseason isn't coming. It's being delayed by this pattern.

ALTSEASON IS BLOCKED BY THIS PATTERN. Altcoin market cap. Head and shoulders. Neckline $220B. Broken. Retested. Rejected. Above $240B: altseason opens. Below $180B: $123B target. Altseason isn't coming. It's being delayed by this pattern.

Merlijn The Trader

53,498 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

BROKEN. RETESTED. REJECTED. Head and shoulders on Bitcoin. Neckline at $78K. That sequence is the textbook confirmation. It printed. The pattern is active. Above $83K: bulls prove it wrong. Below $77K: $48K measured move. The pattern doesn't need more confirmation. Most people just haven't accepted it yet.

BROKEN. RETESTED. REJECTED. Head and shoulders on Bitcoin. Neckline at $78K. That sequence is the textbook confirmation. It printed. The pattern is active. Above $83K: bulls prove it wrong. Below $77K: $48K measured move. The pattern doesn't need more confirmation. Most people just haven't accepted it yet.

Merlijn The Trader

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ETHEREUM RIGHT SHOULDER IS FORMING AT $2K. Inverse head and shoulders on the weekly. Left shoulder. Head at $1.4K. Right shoulder now. This pattern has one target: the neckline at $4.8K. Hold $1.9K: right shoulder completes. Move begins. Lose it: head gets retested. Two years of structure. One breakout away from everything changing.

ETHEREUM RIGHT SHOULDER IS FORMING AT $2K. Inverse head and shoulders on the weekly. Left shoulder. Head at $1.4K. Right shoulder now. This pattern has one target: the neckline at $4.8K. Hold $1.9K: right shoulder completes. Move begins. Lose it: head gets retested. Two years of structure. One breakout away from everything changing.

Merlijn The Trader

59,544 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

THREE BULL TRAPS. SAME PATTERN. BITCOIN DAILY. Each one looked like a breakout. Each one ended lower. Pattern 3 is forming at $71K right now. Above $74K: trap breaks. Bulls finally win. Below $68K: trap activates. $62K next. The market rewards those who recognize the pattern. And punishes those who don't.

THREE BULL TRAPS. SAME PATTERN. BITCOIN DAILY. Each one looked like a breakout. Each one ended lower. Pattern 3 is forming at $71K right now. Above $74K: trap breaks. Bulls finally win. Below $68K: trap activates. $62K next. The market rewards those who recognize the pattern. And punishes those who don't.

Merlijn The Trader

163,040 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

⚽️👇 Activity Description Below 🗣️ This is a ‘Back 3 Build Up Pattern’ from Drill Library. This passing activation allows players to work on developing build-up patterns and relationships while playing in a back 3 shape. The build-up is heavily focused on a 3-2 build-up shape with central combinations. The aim is to create a fluid transition from the back, ensuring the ball is circulated efficiently before being played into the attacking areas. ✅ Click below to view 700+ specialised & adaptable training activities ↙️ 💻

⚽️👇 Activity Description Below 🗣️ This is a ‘Back 3 Build Up Pattern’ from Drill Library. This passing activation allows players to work on developing build-up patterns and relationships while playing in a back 3 shape. The build-up is heavily focused on a 3-2 build-up shape with central combinations. The aim is to create a fluid transition from the back, ensuring the ball is circulated efficiently before being played into the attacking areas. ✅ Click below to view 700+ specialised & adaptable training activities ↙️ 💻

The Coaches Zone

37,641 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

THE ETHEREUM SHAKEOUT ALREADY HAPPENED. MOST PEOPLE SOLD INTO IT. Four months of accumulation between $1,745 and $2,500. Then June broke it down to $1,520, the manipulation leg that clears out everyone who bought the range. Price is back above it at $1,860. That's the expansion phase starting, not another breakdown. I still expect one more dip toward the range low first. That's the retest, not the reversal. After that, it's go time. A weekly close below $1,550 and I'm wrong.

THE ETHEREUM SHAKEOUT ALREADY HAPPENED. MOST PEOPLE SOLD INTO IT. Four months of accumulation between $1,745 and $2,500. Then June broke it down to $1,520, the manipulation leg that clears out everyone who bought the range. Price is back above it at $1,860. That's the expansion phase starting, not another breakdown. I still expect one more dip toward the range low first. That's the retest, not the reversal. After that, it's go time. A weekly close below $1,550 and I'm wrong.

Merlijn The Trader

73,692 Aufrufe • vor 17 Tagen

🚨 XRP’S $1.09 SUPPORT IS UNDER HEAVY PRESSURE — A BREAK COULD UNLEASH THE NEXT WAVE TOWARD $1.00 ➡️ $0.94 ➡️ $0.87 🤯📉 $XRP bounced from the macro support area, but the recovery stalled near $1.11–$1.12 and price has now returned directly to the critical $1.085–$1.09 zone. 👀 The chart suggests the recent bounce may have been only a subwave 2 relief move, while the larger bearish structure is still developing. Technically, several warning signs are now lining up: ❌ Price was rejected below the descending trendline ❌ The $1.115 resistance held ❌ RSI has fallen to roughly 37, below its signal near 49 ❌ Momentum broke down from its tightening structure ❌ Repeated tests are weakening the $1.09 macro support Now the roadmap is becoming much clearer: 🎯 $1.05 → first reaction level 🎯 $1.02–$1.00 → psychological support and potential relief-bounce zone 🎯 $0.98–$0.94 → projected Wave 3 target area 🎯 $0.90–$0.86 → final macro demand zone The chart still allows temporary rebounds near $1.05 and $1.02, but unless XRP reclaims $1.115–$1.12, those bounces could remain corrective before another leg lower. ⚠️ A decisive loss of $1.085 would confirm that the current support is no longer absorbing sellers and could trigger the most violent phase of the correction. $1.12 REJECTED ➡️ $1.09 RETESTED ➡️ RSI BREAKING DOWN ➡️ $1.00 NEXT?

🚨 XRP’S $1.09 SUPPORT IS UNDER HEAVY PRESSURE — A BREAK COULD UNLEASH THE NEXT WAVE TOWARD $1.00 ➡️ $0.94 ➡️ $0.87 🤯📉 $XRP bounced from the macro support area, but the recovery stalled near $1.11–$1.12 and price has now returned directly to the critical $1.085–$1.09 zone. 👀 The chart suggests the recent bounce may have been only a subwave 2 relief move, while the larger bearish structure is still developing. Technically, several warning signs are now lining up: ❌ Price was rejected below the descending trendline ❌ The $1.115 resistance held ❌ RSI has fallen to roughly 37, below its signal near 49 ❌ Momentum broke down from its tightening structure ❌ Repeated tests are weakening the $1.09 macro support Now the roadmap is becoming much clearer: 🎯 $1.05 → first reaction level 🎯 $1.02–$1.00 → psychological support and potential relief-bounce zone 🎯 $0.98–$0.94 → projected Wave 3 target area 🎯 $0.90–$0.86 → final macro demand zone The chart still allows temporary rebounds near $1.05 and $1.02, but unless XRP reclaims $1.115–$1.12, those bounces could remain corrective before another leg lower. ⚠️ A decisive loss of $1.085 would confirm that the current support is no longer absorbing sellers and could trigger the most violent phase of the correction. $1.12 REJECTED ➡️ $1.09 RETESTED ➡️ RSI BREAKING DOWN ➡️ $1.00 NEXT?

Diana

26,318 Aufrufe • vor 17 Tagen

🚨 WARNING: THIS IS NOT NORMAL The S&P 500 has been DUMPING for a month. And the real macro support remains far below. Because in midterm years, this pattern NEVER fails. 17 out of 17 midterm years showed the same thing: Every correction before the 200 EMA touch ended the same way. DUMP. And right now, the S&P 500 is still trading far above the level it usually needs to touch before the real bottom forms. This month-long selloff may only be the beginning. The final dump is still ahead. I’ve studied macro for 10 years and called almost every major market top, including the October BTC ATH. Follow and turn notifications on. I’ll post the warning BEFORE the next leg down begins.

🚨 WARNING: THIS IS NOT NORMAL The S&P 500 has been DUMPING for a month. And the real macro support remains far below. Because in midterm years, this pattern NEVER fails. 17 out of 17 midterm years showed the same thing: Every correction before the 200 EMA touch ended the same way. DUMP. And right now, the S&P 500 is still trading far above the level it usually needs to touch before the real bottom forms. This month-long selloff may only be the beginning. The final dump is still ahead. I’ve studied macro for 10 years and called almost every major market top, including the October BTC ATH. Follow and turn notifications on. I’ll post the warning BEFORE the next leg down begins.

Wimar.X

42,919 Aufrufe • vor 13 Tagen

This trader turned $25 into $12,400 on a single weather bet on Polymarket Made $45,000 in the last month alone -> and he only trades weather His profile: How he does it: -> only trades weather markets (temperature in NY, London, Seoul) -> buys NO at 94-98c when the forecast makes the bucket nearly impossible -> position sizes from $100 to $1,200, never bigger -> wins ~95c on the dollar, thousands of times -> doesn't predict weather, prices what the forecast already locked in The part most people miss: His edge isn't in being a meteorologist -> it's in noticing that the day before resolution, the market still trades at 94c instead of 99c That 5c gap, multiplied across hundreds of trades, is the entire game This is exactly the boring-but-profitable wallet pattern from the article above 👇 Copy him with me:

Paone

11,474 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

FROM $630 TO $56,300 IN 24 HOURS imagine waking up, grabbing your coffee, and deciding to bet against the entire market’s conviction the odds are 1%, the crowd is laughing at you you put down a modest $630 on Bitcoin trading below $78K by the end of the day 24 hours later, your balance isn't $630, it’s $56,300 this isnt a dream, this is a real story on polymarket while the crowd was chasing 2x trades, this sniper caught a 90x generational move 1% isn't 0%, it's a massive discount on a fortune if you have the conviction to trade it profile:

AshenSoul

27,944 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

This manipulation is insane. On Saturday, $BTC pumped towards $74,000 liquidating $139M shorts! Then on Sunday, $BTC dumped to $70,500 liquidating $216M longs! And now today, $BTC pumped back towards $72,000 liquidating another $102M! That's $767M total liquidations over the weekend alone!!! Now, $69,000 - $70,500 below has sizable liquidity which could be swept. However, $73,500 - $76,500 above has roughly 2x more liquidation clusters stacked up, making this the 'higher probability' zone from a liquidity perspective. Bulls could regain control here.

This manipulation is insane. On Saturday, $BTC pumped towards $74,000 liquidating $139M shorts! Then on Sunday, $BTC dumped to $70,500 liquidating $216M longs! And now today, $BTC pumped back towards $72,000 liquidating another $102M! That's $767M total liquidations over the weekend alone!!! Now, $69,000 - $70,500 below has sizable liquidity which could be swept. However, $73,500 - $76,500 above has roughly 2x more liquidation clusters stacked up, making this the 'higher probability' zone from a liquidity perspective. Bulls could regain control here.

CryptoReviewing

185,567 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

This is insane. In just 2 hours - $BTC dumped from $75,400 to $73,400 liquidating $166M longs and then immediately pumped back to $75,000 liquidating another $117M shorts! That's $283M total liquidations in Crypto in just 2 hours!!! Now, $71,000 - $73,000 below has sizable liquidity that could be swept. However, $75,000 - $78,000 above has significantly larger liquidation clusters stacked up, making this the 'higher probability' zone to visit. Bulls could take control here.

This is insane. In just 2 hours - $BTC dumped from $75,400 to $73,400 liquidating $166M longs and then immediately pumped back to $75,000 liquidating another $117M shorts! That's $283M total liquidations in Crypto in just 2 hours!!! Now, $71,000 - $73,000 below has sizable liquidity that could be swept. However, $75,000 - $78,000 above has significantly larger liquidation clusters stacked up, making this the 'higher probability' zone to visit. Bulls could take control here.

CryptoReviewing

135,875 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

i found a pattern in 5-minute bitcoin markets it's literally a way to make x100 in one trade no bots needed, no technical analysis just timing the last 1-2 seconds let me explain how it works the market is nearing completion price fluctuates slightly, needs only $20-40 to hit the target level in the last 10 seconds, shares price starts dropping sharply everyone assumes the outcome is decided one side trades down to a few cents here's where it gets interesting watching these markets, i noticed a pattern in the final second there's a violent price spike in the direction nobody expected the outcome that was trading at 1c suddenly wins looks like whale manipulation since the market is so new but we don't care about why right now we're being handed free money by buying the "dead" outcome at 1c in the final seconds you risk losing $1 to make $100 the math is completely in your favor probability theory says if this happens even 2% of the time you're profitable and it's happening way more than 2% just try it yourself before it gets fixed yet 5-min market:

i found a pattern in 5-minute bitcoin markets it's literally a way to make x100 in one trade no bots needed, no technical analysis just timing the last 1-2 seconds let me explain how it works the market is nearing completion price fluctuates slightly, needs only $20-40 to hit the target level in the last 10 seconds, shares price starts dropping sharply everyone assumes the outcome is decided one side trades down to a few cents here's where it gets interesting watching these markets, i noticed a pattern in the final second there's a violent price spike in the direction nobody expected the outcome that was trading at 1c suddenly wins looks like whale manipulation since the market is so new but we don't care about why right now we're being handed free money by buying the "dead" outcome at 1c in the final seconds you risk losing $1 to make $100 the math is completely in your favor probability theory says if this happens even 2% of the time you're profitable and it's happening way more than 2% just try it yourself before it gets fixed yet 5-min market:

ramper

74,611 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

🚨Holy shit... This guy turned $100 into $207K on Polymarket No leverage. No signals. No charts. Just a bot running the same calculation hundreds of times per hour. Everyone thinks he's trading Bitcoin. He's not. He's not predicting price direction. He's finding where the market is wrong about its own probabilities and taking the other side. To copytrade this guy - Here's the gap he exploits: Polymarket prices 5-minute BTC Up at 46%. Real probability based on volatility and momentum: 55%. That's 9 cents mispriced on a binary outcome. Bot sees it. Bot buys it. Market resolves in 5 minutes. Edge locked. Then it does it again. And again. Hundreds of times a week. The math isn't complicated. Small edge × high frequency = the account you're looking at. Look at the pattern in the trades: 5-minute markets only Consistent sizing every entry Dozens of executions per day Win rate that doesn't drift That's not gambling. That's a probability engine running on a market built for humans to trade manually. $100 became $207,176 because the bot doesn't sleep doesn't hesitate doesn't second-guess.

🚨Holy shit... This guy turned $100 into $207K on Polymarket No leverage. No signals. No charts. Just a bot running the same calculation hundreds of times per hour. Everyone thinks he's trading Bitcoin. He's not. He's not predicting price direction. He's finding where the market is wrong about its own probabilities and taking the other side. To copytrade this guy - Here's the gap he exploits: Polymarket prices 5-minute BTC Up at 46%. Real probability based on volatility and momentum: 55%. That's 9 cents mispriced on a binary outcome. Bot sees it. Bot buys it. Market resolves in 5 minutes. Edge locked. Then it does it again. And again. Hundreds of times a week. The math isn't complicated. Small edge × high frequency = the account you're looking at. Look at the pattern in the trades: 5-minute markets only Consistent sizing every entry Dozens of executions per day Win rate that doesn't drift That's not gambling. That's a probability engine running on a market built for humans to trade manually. $100 became $207,176 because the bot doesn't sleep doesn't hesitate doesn't second-guess.

Shelpid.WI3M

20,853 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

an agent is four parts in a loop. you own one. the other three break it. that's why the demo works and prod doesn't. you can't debug what you can't see. 1) the prompt → what you tell the model each turn. you own this one. good. 2) the context window → what it sees right now. the framework fills it with junk, and you never notice until it rots. 3) the tools → what it can do. you own the list, not when or why it fires them. 4) the control flow → what happens next, when to stop. the framework owns this. it's what breaks at 80%. own all four and your agent stops being a magic trick that works on stage and dies on call. this isn't my idea. it's the 12-factor agents guide (24k stars) github: the whole thing every serious builder ends up rewriting their stack around. full breakdown in the article below.

an agent is four parts in a loop. you own one. the other three break it. that's why the demo works and prod doesn't. you can't debug what you can't see. 1) the prompt → what you tell the model each turn. you own this one. good. 2) the context window → what it sees right now. the framework fills it with junk, and you never notice until it rots. 3) the tools → what it can do. you own the list, not when or why it fires them. 4) the control flow → what happens next, when to stop. the framework owns this. it's what breaks at 80%. own all four and your agent stops being a magic trick that works on stage and dies on call. this isn't my idea. it's the 12-factor agents guide (24k stars) github: the whole thing every serious builder ends up rewriting their stack around. full breakdown in the article below.

Hanako

38,184 Aufrufe • vor 28 Tagen

#FIAAOTY - FIA Action of the Year 2025 contest is officially on! This year: 7 World Championships, 7 winners picked by YOU 🫵, 1 Championship a day Today is the day to decide the FIA World Rally Championship FIA Action of the Year by tipping Adrien Fourmaux/Alexandre Coria, Takamoto Katsuta / Aaron Johnston or Ott Tanak / Martin Jarveoja in the comments below 👇 Let’s take a closer look Adrien FOURMAUX and Alex Coria being caught out y mud on the road towards the end of the stage which fired their Hyundai i20 N down a bank, ripping off the passenger door from the car 😱 🔍 It's game on! #FIAAwards #FIA

#FIAAOTY - FIA Action of the Year 2025 contest is officially on! This year: 7 World Championships, 7 winners picked by YOU 🫵, 1 Championship a day Today is the day to decide the FIA World Rally Championship FIA Action of the Year by tipping Adrien Fourmaux/Alexandre Coria, Takamoto Katsuta / Aaron Johnston or Ott Tanak / Martin Jarveoja in the comments below 👇 Let’s take a closer look Adrien FOURMAUX and Alex Coria being caught out y mud on the road towards the end of the stage which fired their Hyundai i20 N down a bank, ripping off the passenger door from the car 😱 🔍 It's game on! #FIAAwards #FIA

FIA

25,812 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Did you know? This mission was born in a bar and it was sketched on a cocktail napkin Two scientists and a Lockheed engineer sat in a Tucson bar, not far from University of Arizona campus. Their idea was rejected by NASA, TWICE for being impractical and too expensive. The spacecraft touched the asteroid surface for only "5 seconds" and collected more than enough samples using a device called, TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) which is an engineering marvel. But how does it work? When it contacts the asteroid surface, it releases high-pressure nitrogen gas to fluidize loose material, and capture ✨stardust ✨. Read more about it in my bog, linked below.

Did you know? This mission was born in a bar and it was sketched on a cocktail napkin Two scientists and a Lockheed engineer sat in a Tucson bar, not far from University of Arizona campus. Their idea was rejected by NASA, TWICE for being impractical and too expensive. The spacecraft touched the asteroid surface for only "5 seconds" and collected more than enough samples using a device called, TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) which is an engineering marvel. But how does it work? When it contacts the asteroid surface, it releases high-pressure nitrogen gas to fluidize loose material, and capture ✨stardust ✨. Read more about it in my bog, linked below.

nabbo (bio/acc)

916,845 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

DUMP BELOW $57,000 WILL BE BRUTAL. I’ve been trading for more than 17 years and have NEVER seen this much long-side liquidity stacked in one single zone. More than $1.75 billion in longs gets wiped if the price loses $57,000. Do you understand how much that is? $1.75 BILLION in leveraged bets. Gone in seconds. Every influencer screaming "the bottom is already in" is about to get liquidated. And here's what nobody wants to hear: That collapse IS the buy signal. Exactly when buying feels the most painful, dangerous, and completely wrong. When that liquidity gets taken, the market cycle bottom isn't a question anymore. This is how every major bottom forms. The crowd sees the end. Traders who stay patient see the final accumulation window. Reminder: I called the $16K Bitcoin bottom and the $126K top. The next call is coming. My followers will see it first. Follow and turn notifications on. Most people will follow me too late.

DUMP BELOW $57,000 WILL BE BRUTAL. I’ve been trading for more than 17 years and have NEVER seen this much long-side liquidity stacked in one single zone. More than $1.75 billion in longs gets wiped if the price loses $57,000. Do you understand how much that is? $1.75 BILLION in leveraged bets. Gone in seconds. Every influencer screaming "the bottom is already in" is about to get liquidated. And here's what nobody wants to hear: That collapse IS the buy signal. Exactly when buying feels the most painful, dangerous, and completely wrong. When that liquidity gets taken, the market cycle bottom isn't a question anymore. This is how every major bottom forms. The crowd sees the end. Traders who stay patient see the final accumulation window. Reminder: I called the $16K Bitcoin bottom and the $126K top. The next call is coming. My followers will see it first. Follow and turn notifications on. Most people will follow me too late.

Nonzee

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This post about bench press safety escaped containment and got a lot of people commenting in disagreement that safeties/spotter arms would've saved him. And in truth, my language below was a little too absolute: safeties MIGHT have saved his life (though even if so, would not have prevented all damage), but it's far from certain that they would have, so I stand by the overall sentiment. I will explain in detail below. The spotter arms have to be set below the top of your arched chest or else they’ll interfere with every rep - you'll clang the bar on the safeties, which not only severely interrupts proper technique and performance, but can also be potentially injurious in its own right as the clanging against the safeties takes you out of the rhythm of the rep and leads to uneven and chaotic force application demands mid-rep. The safeties can’t be set a mere milimeter or even a half inch below the chest: both because most racks have 2-3 inch hole spacings that don't allow such finely calibrated setting, but even if they do - also because as a gross movement pattern, not a fine movement pattern, you can’t control the movement of the bar precisely and accurately enough not to clang the safeties if they’re so close to your chest. Human beings performing gross movement patterns simply lack such fine control: on heavy sets, the bar might be slightly uneven on one side, you might lose a touch of your arch over the course of the set, etc... and end up clanging the safeties anyway, if they're set so close to the top of your arched chest. These issues are not form errors that can be prevented with proper training, but are inherent limitations in the human capability to control gross motor pattern movements at a heavy weight. Thus, the safeties have to be far enough below your chest in order to not interfere with the set itself, such that they can’t possibly catch the bar before it hits your chest in the case of a sudden catastrophic drop. The proper placement for the safeties is far enough below your chest so as not to interfere with the normal execution of the set and so the bar never touches the safeties at all during the set, even with the inherent human limitations of gross motor pattern control. But high enough such tha - if you find yourself unable to successfully press the bar to lockout - you can bring the bar under control back down to your chest, exhale and drop your arch, and the bar will ideally now rest on the safeties instead of your chest and you can crawl and slither out from under it. Worst case, you can roll the bar slightly upwards and the safeties will soon take it, well before it would lie on your neck. I have an example of using the safeties this way in the video below, with 485 lbs. The ability to set this position with precision and accuracy depends on the equipment you're using: Some racks/benches have 1 inch spacings for this purpose, which is excellent and allows greater precision in safety placement, but most common racks have 2-3 inches between holes and thus people must often have the safeties a little lower than they'd ideally be. The main point is the proper use and purpose of safeties in the bench press is not really to catch a very rare catastrophic sudden drop onto your chest, but to allow you to survive the much more common situation of a normal failed rep. Could they theoretically save your life in such a situation where you drop it? Yes, they might. They won't stop the bar before it hits your chest but they might reduce the impact by stopping the bar from going further down and reducing the impact. This may or may not save your life in this rare catastrophic drop situation - it's good to have them there, set up anyway, but it's far from a sure bet. The most important things you can do are to learn and practice good technique, which involves stiff wrists in a very slightly bent back position, and thumbs around the barbell - NO SUICIDE GRIP. The safeties won't catch the bar and stop it from hitting your chest, so it's best to reduce the chances of dropping the bar on your chest from almost zero to even closer to almost zero. I've been bench pressing regularly for well over 20 years, always put my thumbs around the bar, and have never dropped it on myself. Nor has anyone I have coached to the best of my memory, over tens of thousands of sets and hundreds of thousands of reps. I have used safeties to successfully avoid getting trapped under the bar after a failed rep. In the video below, I tweaked my pec while pushing through a rep at 485 and had to set the bar on the pins to avoid getting trapped under it. This kind of situation is the primary use for the safeties. It's good to have them set up regardless - they might indeed save you if you somehow still manage to drop the bar, but they also very well might not.

This post about bench press safety escaped containment and got a lot of people commenting in disagreement that safeties/spotter arms would've saved him. And in truth, my language below was a little too absolute: safeties MIGHT have saved his life (though even if so, would not have prevented all damage), but it's far from certain that they would have, so I stand by the overall sentiment. I will explain in detail below. The spotter arms have to be set below the top of your arched chest or else they’ll interfere with every rep - you'll clang the bar on the safeties, which not only severely interrupts proper technique and performance, but can also be potentially injurious in its own right as the clanging against the safeties takes you out of the rhythm of the rep and leads to uneven and chaotic force application demands mid-rep. The safeties can’t be set a mere milimeter or even a half inch below the chest: both because most racks have 2-3 inch hole spacings that don't allow such finely calibrated setting, but even if they do - also because as a gross movement pattern, not a fine movement pattern, you can’t control the movement of the bar precisely and accurately enough not to clang the safeties if they’re so close to your chest. Human beings performing gross movement patterns simply lack such fine control: on heavy sets, the bar might be slightly uneven on one side, you might lose a touch of your arch over the course of the set, etc... and end up clanging the safeties anyway, if they're set so close to the top of your arched chest. These issues are not form errors that can be prevented with proper training, but are inherent limitations in the human capability to control gross motor pattern movements at a heavy weight. Thus, the safeties have to be far enough below your chest in order to not interfere with the set itself, such that they can’t possibly catch the bar before it hits your chest in the case of a sudden catastrophic drop. The proper placement for the safeties is far enough below your chest so as not to interfere with the normal execution of the set and so the bar never touches the safeties at all during the set, even with the inherent human limitations of gross motor pattern control. But high enough such tha - if you find yourself unable to successfully press the bar to lockout - you can bring the bar under control back down to your chest, exhale and drop your arch, and the bar will ideally now rest on the safeties instead of your chest and you can crawl and slither out from under it. Worst case, you can roll the bar slightly upwards and the safeties will soon take it, well before it would lie on your neck. I have an example of using the safeties this way in the video below, with 485 lbs. The ability to set this position with precision and accuracy depends on the equipment you're using: Some racks/benches have 1 inch spacings for this purpose, which is excellent and allows greater precision in safety placement, but most common racks have 2-3 inches between holes and thus people must often have the safeties a little lower than they'd ideally be. The main point is the proper use and purpose of safeties in the bench press is not really to catch a very rare catastrophic sudden drop onto your chest, but to allow you to survive the much more common situation of a normal failed rep. Could they theoretically save your life in such a situation where you drop it? Yes, they might. They won't stop the bar before it hits your chest but they might reduce the impact by stopping the bar from going further down and reducing the impact. This may or may not save your life in this rare catastrophic drop situation - it's good to have them there, set up anyway, but it's far from a sure bet. The most important things you can do are to learn and practice good technique, which involves stiff wrists in a very slightly bent back position, and thumbs around the barbell - NO SUICIDE GRIP. The safeties won't catch the bar and stop it from hitting your chest, so it's best to reduce the chances of dropping the bar on your chest from almost zero to even closer to almost zero. I've been bench pressing regularly for well over 20 years, always put my thumbs around the bar, and have never dropped it on myself. Nor has anyone I have coached to the best of my memory, over tens of thousands of sets and hundreds of thousands of reps. I have used safeties to successfully avoid getting trapped under the bar after a failed rep. In the video below, I tweaked my pec while pushing through a rep at 485 and had to set the bar on the pins to avoid getting trapped under it. This kind of situation is the primary use for the safeties. It's good to have them set up regardless - they might indeed save you if you somehow still manage to drop the bar, but they also very well might not.

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