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Not to me. This is something I recently ran across while looking for an answer to a different gym etiquette question, involving rock climbers and people horsing around behind the belayer. I did see some climbers fool around and knock a belayer off his feet, which caused the climber he was belaying to drop several meters unexpectedly (he was on a "take"). Fortunately, another belayer near him grabbed his harness as he flew up off the ground and a major incident was averted, save for the bruising and scraping of the poor climber.
So while looking into the etiquette of how to handle dangerous behavior, I ran across this (and was horrified) and felt it would be more universal - chances are more people on this forum would have done a standing shoulder press than belayed someone, so the answer would be general enough to apply.
Rock climbing and taking a weight off someones bar while being used is completely different. Perhaps you should have asked the rock climbing question first instead.
It is not general, because no one would take a weight off someones bar while it's being used unless that person did something to **** the other person off, or it is a friend being stupid.
Well to answer a hypothetical question, you dump the plates on the other side. Then use the empty bar to to take a swing at the jerk who took your plate.
I've never seen anybody take the plates off a bar while somebody else was using it. Never heard of it either. Has anybody actually seen this happen?
In order to do so you would have to get close to the lifter. If the plates were locked on you would have to remove the keeper first. The lifter could potentially dump the plates onto you while you did so completely on accident.
I would tell the staff immediately that someone was screwing around and compromising the belayer. That behavior is absolutely unacceptable when you are the potential lifeline for a climber. Absurd.
If that had actually happened to me, at my gym, I would ask the guy in a voice loud enough to be heard over the music and any idle chit-chat in the entire gym:
DID YOU REALLY MEAN TO PULL THE PLATE OFF MY BARBELL WHILE I WAS USING IT? BECAUSE, IF I HAD DONE THAT I WOULD BE SO EMBARRASSED TO BE CALLED OUT ON IT I WOULD IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THE GYM AND NEVER SHOW MY FACE AROUND HERE EVER AGAIN.
And then I'd wait for the guy's response, while he's holding the plate that's missing from my barbell in his hand.
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