Big Thank You Starting Posistion in Pulls

[AbeSmith]

Mark -

I have always seen the videos on YouTube/writing on the site where you initiate pulls from the middle of the foot instead of directly against the shin - but never really took it seriously...I know I am pretty hard headed. After watching some DVR'd olympic lifting I noticed that most of the athletes set up is nearly identical to what you describe in your videos/writing. Thus I tried it out and it has had a profound positive effect on my pulling - even in the first session I set a rep PR in the deadlift. My original ideas regarding the new set up was biased due to old school lifters that treated some aspects of pulling as law. Thanks!

[Mark Rippetoe]

If the bar is placed directly over mid-foot and the shins touch the bar, the shins will be at the correct angle to pull the bar from the floor in a vertical line. You seem to have discovered this.