Footage of 1956 US Olympic WL Trials

[Simma Park]

Perhaps, you've seen this already:

http://vimeo.com/7102369

If not, I thought you and some of our posters would find it interesting.

[Mark Rippetoe]

I'll look at it next week. How did you find it?

[Josiah Moye]

Wow that was really cool.

How about Frank Spellman pressing 290 at 165. Wow. And Paul Anderson was a tank. Thanks for this Spar.

[Simma Park]

How did you find it?

I haven't seen much older footage of WL, so it was pretty fascinating to me.

It seems to my uneducated eye that the wide variations in technique had a lot to do with the relative absence technical dogma--the kind of "figure it out for yourself" approach that Bill Starr and my older teammates at my WL club talk about all the time.

Also of interest to me was seeing the effect of using iron plates on technique.

Warning--this clip includes footage of John Davis blowing a knee tendon.

[Michael Loucas]

This was very cool. Some split snatches/cleans. Lots of power clean and jerks too.

[Michael Loucas]

Holy crap, around 10:00 that dudes knee tendon snaps. Looks painful.

[Mark Edward]

Paul Anderson was a pretty amazing dude.

[drlvegas]

Awesome.

This would be a good clip to put in one of those "what if I don't have bumper plates?" threads.

[AdamW]

I like how Paul Anderson doesn't jerk anything and just push presses. Awesome video, thanks for posting.

[mariawolters]

Sheesh, look at those incredibly smooth cleans!