Clean: Getting Under the Bar

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[quote]TheJonty wrote:

[quote]amayakyrol wrote:
I don’t know about that. I’ve never seen a tall/long femur lifter keep their hips down as low as everyone says they should. I would need a much stronger lower back to keep my hips down.

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You’d never seen an elite lifter do a power clean either.

What determines how low a lifter can keep their hips is more relative femur length as opposed to height. Salimi (the first power clean video I posted on the last page) is 6’5 or 6’6 I think, and his hips don’t shoot up. Szymon Kolecki is about 6’1 and lifted at 94, and he stayed fairly upright through the clean:

I have long femurs and as such clean/snatch with high hips. This is to prevent the need to bring the bar around my knees. It does mean i need a strong back akin to dolega/klokov. However what amakyrol is doing in his videos is extending the hips at a faster speed than his back can cope with. This is why his hips are shooting up, not because he has high hips to start.
To prevent this learn to keep a constant back angle during the first pull with a tight upper back. Don’t extend the hips too early.

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[quote]amayakyrol wrote:
Seriously, how how obtuse do you have to be not realize that I was being sarcastic about not seeing elite lifters do power cleans? The post was clearly sarcastic and I already said before that it was sarcastic. [/quote]

I, too, must have read that wrong. It’s very difficult to read sarcasm in forum posts!! Sorry about my response, then. It was not meant to be sarcastic, as I thought you were being serious.