My coach is always telling me to keep the bar close, let it ride up my thighs and stomach. I have been putting a lot of effort in using my lats more to accomplish this when snatching. So Saturday he was haveing me do some power snatches and i was really concentrating on keeping it close. And when people concentrate they tend to look down.
I brought the dang bar straight under my nose and broke that joker, bleed like crazy for about 10 min. The hit was so solid he laughed and said “Hit your chin huh?” I was like no man that was my nose then he saw it was streaming blood.
I have come pretty close to smashing my nose when doing power snatches in the past.
After hearing your story I think I will be a bit more careful when snatching. I lift in a crowded commercial gym, so breaking my own nose would be pretty damn embarrasing.
good thing I snatched today and won’t remember this tuesday when i snatch. I did just about knock myself out though, doing clean and jerk. I cleaned the bar and dipped to jerk it and on the way up hit my chin.
As a fellow recipient of a broken nose, make sure you straiten your nose and make sure it sets in the correct place and that you can breath through both nostrils right after it breaks.