Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
There is nothing wrong with your jump. The only thing wrong with these cleans is that you're not catching the bar at your things before you set it down. Read the blue book again: The jump is part of the teaching method, not the clean itself. How far up in the air do you plan on getting with 160? The jump in the teaching method is there so you can learn to rack the bar after the pull. Once this is learned, the acceleration from the floor becomes the focus, and the jump is never talked about again.