Thorough breakdown as usual! Deadlift bar for me is probably not needed since I'm not pulling all those blue plates but if you love deadlifting, why not hook yourself up
Great DL bar review. I have only gotten my hands on a DL bar a few times. I don’t think I lift enough to make it worth the $$. It will be very interesting to see how you find a quantitative measurement for Whip and barbell knurl.
Awe yeah. I was curious because I know a lot of his stuff was made in the USA and I think these are imported. I guess I’ll get to get my hands on it at Home Gym Con on April
I wanted that bar when it was first teased. Then I got my hands on the Hades at HGC. And I had some luck come my way where I could afford another bar and got the Hades. The knurling is good, not over aggro like my double diamond, but a hellava lot more aggressive than my tru grit power bar 😅
I order knurled handles for my power block from this company. Def would recommend that if you like aggressive Knurling this is the company to get it from
It wasn’t mine. It was when we had a house building delay and were living with other family. I WISH I had an outbuilding but as of now it’s not in the cards. Thanks for watching and I appreciate the question.
Regarding your discussion about Kabuki at the end: I am one of the very unlucky ones that spent close to $700 on the black oxide 250k bar, and it ended up arriving to my door with this really ugly "tiger striping" where basically the black oxide was applied terribly and not evenly. It came out really ugly and basically their customer service was non-existent or ghosted me through a 6 week+ period and refused to accept responsibility for the false advertising (their bars certainly dont look this way on their product page) and would not offer a fair refund. It was only after I started making a little more noise and "karen'ing" on an influencer's comment section did Kabuki FINALLY respond to me (through a completely different representative btw, like literally I think Duffin's right-hand man Rusty) and offer me a refund that made the price equivalent to moreso like I was buying a "blemished black oxide power bar". To this day I still think this was a robbery but given how terrible their CS dept was (I think it's literally 1 lady), I just accepted the loss and vowed never to buy from them again (even though I have their BO DL bar, kabuki bar, BO duffalo bar lol) *end rant
Everytime I hear these horror stories the feelings are of disappointment and frustration for your experience. What do you think about the Steel Reaper?
@@TheKurtlocker I haven't touched the bar but based on your review it seems like a serviceable option for those that don't want a bar that everyone else has. I have the kabuki PR DL bar so not in the market for any more DL bars.
@TheKurtlocker I will never understand it, people will buy equipment like kabuki to just deadlift 300 for a top set. It's your money, but you would be just fine with one HALF the price.