Originally Posted by
Bruce Ware
I've elected to attempt to teach myself to do this, after having watched Rip's series of how-to videos a number of times, breaking down the movement pattern into components. I think I've gotten a decent handle on jumping while keeping the elbows straight and locked. However, my shoulder flexibility is such that the rack position has the bar about 2 inches in front of my delts -- it comes nowhere near floating on the front heads -- doesn't hit the chest (good) or throat (also good), but I have very limited ability to push my elbows high enough to get the bar all the way to the touching the front delt heads as depicted. I'll keep working on these first basic moves on lower-body days, and add the shin-to-jumping-point-to-jump&rack sequence on Squat day.