Simplified Deadlift Setup

[skjill]

Deadlifting, it seems to me as though the position produced by touching the bar with the shins is invariably correct, so long as the lifter is in balance and that the barbell is over the midfoot.

Am I mistaken?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Is the instruction in the book unclear?

[SD Gator]

Deadlifting, it seems to me as though the position produced by touching the bar with the shins is invariably correct, so long as the lifter is in balance and that the barbell is over the midfoot.

Am I mistaken?

Sure, its invariably correct. Unless you drop your hips. Or fail to squeeze your chest up. Or don't set your back. Or all the rest of the stuff you can get wrong and still have your shins touching the bar.

[skjill]

Is the instruction in the book unclear?

I think so.

[skjill]

Sure, its invariably correct. Unless you drop your hips

I suspect that dropping one's hips puts the lifter out of balance, unless the bar moves.

[Austin Baraki]

...what is the actual question here?

[John Hanley]

...what is the actual question here?

I believe he's confirming with Rip that Rip was, in fact, correct in his model of the deadlift.

I think.

[hollismb]

I believe he's confirming with Rip that Rip was, in fact, correct in his model of the deadlift.

I think.

I suspect that I think that it seems that he's trying to further simplify something that was already as simple as it can be. Unless I'm mistaken, but I feel that I'm not.

[mrflibble]

Just looks like trolling to me. Especially given his posting history, such as:

http://startingstrength.com/resource...ous-depth.html