Originally Posted by
Michael Wolf
As a somewhat tangential follow-up to this, I just had a conversation with the primary Olympic lifting coach at my gym about the low bar squat / Olympic lifting topic. For what I believe is the first time in my life when attempting to do this with any Olympic lifter or coach, he listened all the way through, didn't interrupt or try to out-shout me before I could finish a point, didn't storm away in frustrated anger that I didn't accept an appeal to authority, and actually considered what I said. We didn't go through all the points of analysis, but we did hit some of the big ones. It was a pleasant conversation between two people with different perspectives and starting points, and left him with enough to consider that we're talking about trying to do some work together with people where I coach their strength via the SS style low bar squat and he does the Olympic lift technique work with them. I'm not sure if it will come to fruition but his open-mindedness and willingness to listen and consider without having a knee-jerk reaction was very refreshing.