170kg Snatch at 90kg by Lee James USA Olympic Silver Medalist

[Gymmoser]

Lee snatching 170kg in training at York Barbell. A must watch for any fan of American Weightlifting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfA0H...e_gdata_player

[glennpendlay]

Nice video.

[Derek Binford]

York Barbell must have been an awesome place to behold back in those days.

[ihatemoney123]

Does anybody have an idea who he was coached by?

[Gymmoser]

Dick "Smitty" Smith

Back in the day, the coaches were always in the background. Not like the attention whores of today.

[ihatemoney123]

Maybe.........youtube, video cameras and monitors weren't so widespread as well. I think it has more to do with trying to expose the sport of weightlifting than attention.

[Gymmoser]

You are very naive.

[ihatemoney123]

You are very naive.

Attention whore sounds kind of inimical...... I'm not sure which coaches you are referring to.

[HONEYBADGER]

Dick "Smitty" Smith

Back in the day, the coaches were always in the background. Not like the attention whores of today.

Mr. Moser, I wouldnt really call him an attention whore, imo he may want to be in the video here but "whore" is a little overboard sir....

[ihatemoney123]

Mr. Moser, I wouldnt really call him an attention whore, imo he may want to be in the video here but "whore" is a little overboard sir....

Let us digress.......


Are those york bumper plates in the video? Reminds of the old school eleiko plates. I used an eleiko said couple days ago. Off the bat you can tell.......they last for YEARS. I think the ones I used were 25 years old plus.