Getting stiffed by knee sleeves : The politics of IPF approval

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A couple of episodes ago, we talked about a dramatic change in leadership at the International Powerlifting Federation. The latest wrinkle is that the federation has recently notified the manufacturers of “stiff” knee sleeves that their products are banned from use in competition – immediately. Is the IPF being fair to manufacturers or its members? What prompted this sudden change?

Mike offers some insights from his past experiences with designing knee sleeves and working to gain IPF approval. What’s the rationale behind a system that only favors companies that pay to play? What’s the future of international competition if numerous companies, especially those that support meets with sponsorship, fail because they have too much money sunk into inventory they can’t sell?

We’ve got more questions than answers, to be honest.

Listener resource: ONIBUKIYA response to the ban on ONI knee sleeves

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0:00.0	And there we are.
0:09.8	Welcome.
0:11.3	Before we get into the documentary,
0:15.2	I just want to see what kind of reaction you might have about the...
0:20.0	I'm Jim.
0:20.5	That's Mike, by the way, the stiff
0:25.2	knee sleeve controversy with the IPF.
0:27.7	Oh no, so stupid.
0:30.0	I mean, it's just been going on.
0:31.9	I did read some numbers.
0:33.1	I do want to read a number.
0:34.3	Yeah.
0:35.3	I think it was Hansu Power.
0:37.3	This is the first, so this battle's been going on for a long time, if those that don't
0:41.2	know, but basically equipment, charges, maybe politics, fees, and acceptance into the IPF,
0:49.6	which is, although powerlifting is obviously very segmented, I think most people could agree the
0:54.8	IPF is like the biggest and best, right? Because like it's the most international.
0:59.5	It's definitely the biggest international federation, yeah. Yeah, it's got like pipelines
1:03.4	in many major cities or countries. Nobody else in like no country based is going to have as
1:10.4	much as that. Yeah, WRP had like a little run
1:12.7	and then we had Russian lifters that were very strong or international lifters but they'd all
1:16.9	just come here if they were untested and do whatever so this is like the Fed and it feeds to the
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