DC Block Flat Top

All things being equal, the most powerful athlete wins. Lifting from blocks allows lifters to correctly place their body and the bar in the optimum position to quickly and repeatedly impart the greatest amount of force with the greatest velocity possible. This violent movement develops huge power output that transfers to many sports, especially weightlifting. 

DC Blocks started out at the Belleville Weightlifting Club in 1983 as a series of stacked, unstable wooden 2" x 6"s nailed together to fit my dimensions. Those blocks were lightweight but not interlocking; spectacular crashes happened when I missed a big lift; the blocks, bar, and weights came tumbling down all over the place in a heap.

Today, patented technology processes previously deemed “un-recyclable” materials into loaves of malleable, warm plastic. These loaves are then placed inside a mold and, using a hydraulic press, the material is squeezed into patented Derrick Crass (DC) Blocks. Each DC Block is cooled while inside the mold and then emerges as one solid, stiff construction with superior impact resistance, strong, stackable, and indestructible.