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Originally Posted by
Rip
The feet will stomp into their same footprints, or just a little wider. Just a little means a
couple of inches per side wider. Some people will shift their feet out to a position wider than a
squat stance. This ?spider-in-heat? position is used in an attempt to drop lower under the bar, in
lieu of pulling it high enough. You don?t get a good stomp going this wide because the angle is
not conducive to stomping and the distance covered is so great that it takes too long. Stomping is
quick, lateral splitting is not. Fix this when you do it by stomping into your correct starting
position footprints several times without the bar. And focus on this foot position during the clean
with a lighter weight that can be racked properly. A lateral split is a bad thing to choose as a habit:
it is dangerous, hard to control, and ineffective. The purpose of the power clean is pulling the bar
high ? we don?t want to make it easier to get under the bar, we want to pull the bar higher. And if
we were going to make it easier to get under the bar we would use the standard squat version of the
clean, not a weird bastardized mutation thereof.