Many geared lifters do themselves a disservice by training in their gear too much, I remember listening to a few podcasts a while back (one was Brandon Lilly) and they both said once the meet is over you should train raw for a few months. If you want to truly maximise being as strong as possible in a suit, bench shirt etc then surely you also need to be strong out of it? Strong is strong.
I've competed with big guys (in the 100kg+ class) that struggle to squat 360 raw but then they somehow manage to get 600 or 700 when they're all in their gear. I interpret lifts like that as someone that knows how to get the most out of their equipment, quite different to someone that is 'strong'.
These squats that get passed in official meets are a joke really, if they're going to continually keep rewarding blatantly high squats then soon it will start to be accepted as the norm and lifters won't even bother training with decent depth anymore ~ why would you squat deep if you don't have to? I've bombed out at a meet on squats once, but at least I hit parallel. Now I tend to go ATG, there should leave no doubt in anybody's mind that you nailed that lift!
Rheta needs to climb out of her suit and get back to basics for a while. Just my 2c of course, thanks for reading MF.