new05002 wrote:cleans yea man nice. Any Qs let me know. I know vid was be like "power that shit up ja ja" but im all about riding that shit down into the squat.
Dumb questions: how wide is your grip on squat cleans? This probably influences my wrist mobility...wanna make sure I'm doing it right.
Wide. Its basically the same width as my jerk grip more or less.
Not sure if you can tell on this video or not but my hands are well outside my knees. Something we are coached on at OLY class. This will help to allow you to flex you arms outward and get your elbows through allowing you to put the weight on your front shoulders
So I've still had problems getting my power clean form down. For the life of me I can't get my arms right and it's kind of annoying.
HOWEVER
At the gym the other day I was able to do clean & jerks with proper form and one of the PTs who had been giving me advice asked how I was able to fix it so fast. I tried doing a power clean and fucked up the form but when I went back to C&J my form was great. He even looked confused as hell and told me to just keep doing C&J.
I'm trying to wrap my head around the biomechanics of this and I guess it kind of makes sense but even still I think this is very unusual.
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being able to switch from power cleans to cleans and back and forth takes some time to get used to. Its a mental switch you have to acquire over time. Same thing with power snatch and snatch. However if you are at BW cleans, skipping the power is fine. For me at 205# (close enough to BW) I am always going to be riding that into a full squat even if I catch it on my shoulders above parallel.
ahhhhh yissss I finally paid for my 2. Thanks Nick and Vid!
and man I tried Vids A workout yesterday. Got done in an hour! That is perfect for me. Going to try and do it 3 to 4 times a week this summer if time allows.
