LOL - Nice Hang Power Clean :)

[thriller]

if he is just trying a new lift why so much weight?

 

[slinky]

Okay, watched this vid again.

The kid is "muscling" the weight up. Watch very carefully. There is practically no explosiveness to his lift. Which there should be. O-lifts are not static.
And that means, the kid should be using a lighter load to work on the basic technique of this lift.

 

[makedah]

slinky - ahhh.

Thriller - I don't know that he's new. I'm just saying -- I've exhibited some horrible form in the gym myself, we don't know what the story is here. Well, maybe CoolColJ does!

 

[Shades McCool]

Why are we all here disecting someone who is not here to defend himself?

 

[makedah]

For the purposes of science...

 

[teen1216]

Why are we all here disecting someone who is not here to defend himself?

It's a critique of form. Perhaps it will help someone else with their form. Just because this guy isn't here to argue (although what he would argue I don't know, the form is bad), doesn't mean we can't talk about it.

If you see someone make a bad decision driving, like running a red light, you can tell your kids "Don't do that, he just ran a red light and could have gotten hit." The guy who ran it isn't there but that doesn't mean you can't talk about it.

 

[Shades McCool]

Well I can see the helping of others as a good reason, but I think we should leave the laughing and joke making out of it. Learn from it....just do not make fun. I am sure we could all find something to laugh at in our own form.

 

[slinky]

Trust me, I ain't laughing at the guy in the video.

Let me explain. Not too long ago, my boyfriend and I were at the gym for our clean, snatch day. As usual, we went on over to the platform, but there were three other guys there already, performing a version of the clean from the hang. These three guys had the bar loaded with two bumper plates on each end, and their form were similar to this kid's. With the addition of completely "bumping" the weight off of their thighs. Form was horrible.

What's worse is that these same three guys showed some other chick in the gym their version of this exercise. Luckily, she approached us, and we have since corrected her form (she trained with us for a day) - in time, so that these "bad habits" didn't become a regularity.

So, again, I ain't laughing.

 

[coolcolj]

Well I downloaded one of the Vertimax promo vids from their site, and this bit hit me in the face, and yes I started laughing, so I cut it out and put it here for you guys.

Even the guy at the front isn't using the Vertimax properly

Well its funny to me - I mean I'm so used to seeing proper form, that when its wrong it really hits ya
Really none of the vids on the net show the way it should look, even mine

Watch some fo the Ironmind tapes and you will be blown away!


He probbaly brags about how much he cleans.
Well instead of dipping, he split, then he pretty much reverse curls it up, no hip, no shrugging and his lower back must ache afterwards!

Nice gym though! Dang I'd kill to have access to bumper plates and a platform

 

[WarriorPL]

I can't stop laughing at the guy with the bands.