I think the whole concept of making it "competition standard" defeats the whole purpose of the fat pad? Which boils it down to someone just wanting either a grippy pad or a squishy one (which is not great for heavy benching). After having used this one and a regular fat pad I don't find either particularly grippy

One of these came on the landmine attachment I bought from Rogue. It's impressively nice

Awesome plates but unless you're getting them for them being low profile, I think there's cheaper options out there. If you're getting them as powerlifter you might as well just get the kilo plates so its more similar to competition standards

Another great bar. At a certain point your preferences just become color schemes with these Ohio bar's

We have a couple 10lb ones that my wife likes to use for oly lift stuff. They've held up well for years now, but obviously since they're only 10lb plates they do flex a bit when being dropped but I think thats expected

I used these a ton as handles for balance for bulgarians with an SSB, as well as obviously band pegs

Definitely a solid bar, my old gym had probably 15 or so of them. They all held up well with no issues at all

In my top 5 favorite bars. It think it looks super clean with the black bar and silver sleeves