Rage: The Most Effective Supplement.... and a bit on sumo deadlift form

The deadlift. The most infuriating lift for me. I can't express to you how much it pisses me off. I've been hanging around at a max of 525 forever. After failing miserably at getting better at it, I started trying to adjust my technique. My accessory workouts weren't helping. I was doing a lot of reverse hypers, GHR's, RDL's, and any other lower back and posterior chain exercise I could think of. I had to fix it. I HAD to. It was the lift in my last meet that prevented me from getting an elite total. I was getting desperate. I guess like any other lifter, I have an epiphany every now and again that fixes a problem, or provides some sort of tweak in the technique to make it work. I don't come up with this stuff on my own of course. I have great teammates and fellow lifters at the gym that help, and I have videos of great lifters for that. Like any serious sport, watching film gives you an insight on what your opponent does well, and doesn't do well. Those plates of iron and that bar.... are my enemy. An inanimate object. An object that does absolutely nothing but move where you move it to. I watched video of my opponent. Studying every move it made. And I figured it out. I figured out what was going to work for me. It's all nothing I haven't heard before of course, I get good coaching, but I guess sometimes you just have to figure it out on your own. My epiphany came watching Daniel Green, who is the current world record holder in the 242lbs RAW division for total weight lifted. Here is a picture of his setup.

 Notice how open his hips are which lets him spread his knees way out. Toes pointed out. Very upright posture. Although I don't have the hip mobility that he has, I have been trying to emulate this form. Trying to work on my hip mobility which in turn also helps my squat. So instead of using all lower back to get the weight off the floor, he uses the power in his hips. When he gets towards the upper part of the lift, his entire back is already in an upright position so all he has to do is lock those hips out. Great technique. Here is a video of me about a year ago at an SPF Nationals meet barely getting up 485. What you see is my feet pointed forward, very closed hips with knees barely out. As soon as I pull, shoulders come forward and my lower back is grinding that sonofabitch up inch by inch all the way up. Now here is the other day. Now it's not perfect because I still don't have the hip mobility, but it's a lot closer. As soon as I can get my knees pointed out further, I'll be able to get lower without having to bend at the waist. This will obviously keep me in a more upright position. Not only will more power be generated from the hips, but it will keep me further behind the bar and prevent my shoulders from coming in front and over the bar. This is a 550lbs pull. Now, aside from the technique, my mental state was different. I was pissed. I'm usually self motivated, without the need to yell at the weight and get myself all amped up. But not this day. I was furious. Furious at that weight for not moving where I wanted to move it to. Pure rage spilled out onto that bar. It was a 25lbs PR which would normally not be something I would go for. Remember the scene in The Dark Knight Rises when Bruce Wayne jumps to his freedom in that prison. No rope. The fear is what let him do it. That was almost as awesome as my lift.