Power Clean. Catch with bad flexibility

[Mizypt]

Hello.

I'm kind of afraid to ask this question.. but I'll go ahead.
I have somewhat bad flexibility in my right wrist because of a former injury. When racking the bar my right hand just has two or three fingers around or I'd kill my wrist/elbow. Anyhow, since my current gym is lacking bumper plates I have to catch it.. but this turns out to be kind of hard without a good grip.

Any idea? I'm still at low weights, 70 kg. It works when I rack it with a proper grip, but that puts a strain on my elbow/wrist. One thing I tried was putting it in the power rack and take a new grip, might be the only workaround.

[Charlie Davies]

I don't have bumpers either, and power cleans were horribly painful for me due to long forearms and poor wrist flexibility.

Then I moved my grip out a lot -- almost to the max-bench-press-width markings on the bar.
Problem solved, now power cleans are my favorite lift.
After squats of course.

[osv2]

I don't have wrist issues, but I also catch with 3 fingers, and sometimes even with two. What I then do is short push of the bar up from my delts using leg drive and re-gripping the bar with all the fingers while it's weightless. To further clarify, I do it as the first phase of the bar drop, so the bar then drops down and I catch it on my thighs with just established full grip.

[Mizypt]

Cwd: And I thought I had a wide grip, I still have some space left , I'll see how far I can go.
Osv2: That actually sounds doable, that combined with a slightly wider grip might work.

[Tamara Reynolds]

Power snatch. It's not worth screwing up your wrist for good.

[Mizypt]

Right.. power snatch is actually an alternative. I'll see how the PC feels after these adjustments, otherwise I'll probably try it out.