I find it easier for me because it shortens the pull. Nothing too extreme though. Does it have any con or anything that I should be aware of?
I assume you mean a very wide stance? This would be a problem for many people in the deep squat position, as the groin flexibility required to catch the bar in an ATG front or overhead squat would require the lifter to be able to do the equivalent of an over-split. If you don’t mean too wide, then this wouldn’t be an issue but your knees would outside your hands and get in the way of the bar path.
However, some lifters have wider stances than others so a lot is up to personal preference and body proportions.
The most important part of the lift is not your stance though. If you can clean 160, no matter how much someone who cleans 140 tries, their stance can’t allow them to clean more than you. Focus on lifting big and not so much on the stance.
I assume you’re talking about my stance after the “catch” but actually it’s about the starting position.
Before I catch the bar, I reposition the feet so my stance becomes standard squatting position and no longer like that.
In my short experience (actually after only a couple of training days), this starting stance makes the bar clear the knees much faster and it’s easier to keep the bar close to the body this way.
I do that without really thinking about it. Its a product of your leverages. Some people need to do that to have the bar clear their knees at a more advantageous back position. I don’t think there’s any pros or cons as long as you are consistent.
There has been some successful lifters, even American lifters back in the day, that lifted in the frog stance. However it puts a lot of torque on the knees as well as the hips, so that’s really the only negative.
I tried it once, and the only thing about it is that the frog stance pull will require more quad strength than other styles.