Power-clean or Power-Messy?

[Trewarin]

http://youtu.be/VrfWi-2TGaA

Deadlift was just reset from 152.5kg to 140kg, this was meant to be 62.5kg...

I weighed the bar after I suspected it was lighter than it should be: 17kg bar, bah!

I'll try and get some more footage on Friday and then Monday, from a decent angle variation... But is there enough to see here to fix any glaring problems before I lift again? Sorry about the dark shirt, I thought my appropriate use of chalk would counteract it enough to see past.

[Jonathon Sullivan]

Nothing tragic about these cleans. Wrong angle to detect an arm pull, so I hope you're jumping with straight elbows.

You're defeinitely looping these cleans a bit, and I can tell there's a part of your brainstem that thinks your thighs help boost the bar up. A hint of donkey-kick there, too.

And I would like to see more explosion and more elbow slammage. There's something almost...languid about these cleans. More weight ought to fix that.

All fixable, and like I said there's nothing tragic here. All of this will tighten up with practice. We'll see what other coaches see.

Gym music that doesn't suck would be a big help, too.

[Jonathon Sullivan]

And I just love the guy doing seated incline overhead presses in the rack with the empty bar. That's fucking awesome.

[Trewarin]

The gym "music" I have to deal with is my biggest hurdle in lifting heavy things.

I was hoping you'd spot that guy, he fits my brief of "real life clowns" a game I play spotting people with unintentional clown-like behaviour.

[JM3]

Thanks for the shout out at the end too.,

[Trewarin]

http://youtu.be/9kkkxOWcgv0
http://youtu.be/Yh_6C9n3LsQ
http://youtu.be/yK6ZhyQkDFE
http://youtu.be/-f4hlrt760o

And thus we watch a power-clean fall apart.
I understand there's a lot here I can fix without help, rest between sets was minimal as I had a kid to pickup from daycare in 20mins.

As far as I can see, I don't have any stupid arm-pull at warmup weights... But it creeps in as fatigue does. I understand why it's a bad idea... Will try to fix.
Having watched the light set with the wooden plates; I see the moving through-viscous-liquid appearance my movement portrays. More explosion on the warmup, a proper shrug and bigger jump?

My setup has felt wrong on this lift. Which it shouldn't because its that same as the Deadlift + a wider grip right? My elbows get a shove from my knees going out, and I noticed in one set I shuffled my feet in mid-rep.

Odd.

[Tom Campitelli]

Point your toes out a little less to start. You move them in anyway right before you jump, which is the first time I've noticed someone doing that. Keep you feet flat on the floor and don't move them until you jump. Keep the bar on your legs on the way up. This will help to prevent the pause that occurs as you pull the bar back to touch your thigh. Don't worry about shrugging yet. Instead, slam your shoulders into the bar.