These cleans, how do they look?

[LudwigVan]

Here is a set of 3 at 155#.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7dkpyJ8zuo

[Dastardly]

Nice Rack!


Im not actually the best person to comment on this as my own cleans are terrible. But they look good except for the fact your are jumping forwards a bit.

[CoryWatzig]

the bar should be touching your thighs on the way up

[Squatson]

I was just watching the video the other day, and Rip has people push the bar against their thighs at the jumping position to help reinforce what it feels like when it is in the right spot.

that and "long straight elbows" did as much for my PC as "shove your knees out" did for my squat.

[Dastardly]

the bar should be touching your thighs on the way up

Im going to have to use the term 'my bad' here.

I failed to notice it, bar must be in contact.

If you focus on staying over the bar and straightening legs first, keeping back angle the same. I will allow you to get the bar onto the jumping position on your thigh while keeping the contact all the way through.

[Malcontent]

Looks like a textbook power clean to me. I think you could use more weight if you worked on accelerating the bar off the floor quicker though.

[nisora33]

OP's shoulders arent just over the bar, they're all the way out in front of it. If he fixes that problem, what do you think will happen to the other two problems you guys mentioned, the jumping forward and the bar not touching the thighs? Read the "common errors" section of the power clean chapter of SS.

Address the core problem, and the rest fixes itself. Magic, huh?

-Stacey

[LudwigVan]

This is the starting position we're looking for, right? Shoulders are slightly in front of the bar so that scapulas can be directly over it. So nisora, you're saying you see the scapulas forward of the bar in this video? Would you recommend lowering the hips in the starting position to correct that?

[Paul Sousa]

I would say to drop your hips a bit and see how it goes. Definitely starting too far forward with your torso too horizontal. Drop the hips down and back a bit and give it a go.

[nisora33]

What Paul said is what I am getting at. Reread the part of the power clean chapter on fixes and you'll see why this might address the other problems that some of the other posters have pointed out.

-S.