Topic: Help me improve technique

[Jim Storch]

STOP doing HALF squats and start doing FULL squats and that includes in the front squats

In the jerk you are using your arms too much too soon.  Relax your arms and use your legs to drive the weight up and the instant the bar gets about forehead height use your arms to push YOU into the split.

[Alex Carter]

you guys are right, for sum reason i not squatting low enough.. and i gotta get them elbows up...true true.
Interesting point Jim, I gotta check my ego, i am half squatting the weights.. pathetic I know..and on jerk, thats interesting, i always thought of it as a split using your shoulders but that dont help, i gotta drive fast and short i guess... ill have a video for you guys tomorrow... stay tuned lol

by the way you can't use chalk in that gym...so....lol.....

[Alex Carter]

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

[Shaun Le Conte]

by the way you can't use chalk in that gym...so....lol.....

Use straps if you must, Ivanov is in one of the videos using them to clean & jerk 170+ kg as an overweight 56 kg lifter

What College is this? PM me if you don't want to say.

[Alex Carter]

its University of Texas at San Antonio
by the way Im not sure how straps work on cleans lol the one time i tried em i dropped em and was stuck to them, ahhh. lol.. but yeah.. how was todays workout? I was f'ing pissed cuz after snatch i tried jerking but i couldnt lift anything man my shoulders were shot.

[Sean Hutchinson]

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

your knees aren't getting out of the way enough so your moving the bar around your knees and then bringing it back in and when  hit your second pull your swinging the bar and jumping forward into a receiving position......

[Alex Carter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYW2js5MNxw

[Pete Church]

Try widening your jerk grip by another inch on each side. What kind of shoes are you wearing?