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DC Blocks

DC Blocks

My weightlifting blocks started out at the Belleville Weightlifting Club in 1985 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, my weightlifting DC Blocks start out as your scrap plastic. Patented technology uses previously deemed “un-recyclable” plastics in a blending process that grinds the scrap into 1/4" size particulates. The material is processed with patented recycling equipment and ejected in 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.