Topic: Video: East Coast Gold Classic

[Paul LaDuke]

http://revver.com/watch/850200

Here are my six attempts at the Moorestown, NJ weightlifting meet.  I snatched 85, 90x, 90 and clean and jerked 115, 120 (press out right arm), 120 for a 210 total.  I earned the bronze medal.  The video camera battery died on the 3rd snatch attempt right at the catch, so the full 90kg snatch is not there.

Comments are welcome.

[Pete_Stewart]

Its more obvious in the snatch but the bar is coming away from the body after the thigh and is therefore sitting out front, you also notice you try and compensate for this by jumping forward.

[Jim Hooper]

I'd say 100/130 by this fall, and 110/140 by next fall.  Do you see that you are locking out snatches and racking cleans at parallel now?  A year ago you were well above parallel.  Great -- your training is working!  In another year, you'll be even deeper, and the catchable loads commensurately larger.  Much improved jerk.  Great strength!  Don't sweat or overthink the fore/aft foot displacement too much.  Your feet in the catches are pretty close to your pull-footprints, and there are great lifters who move a little forward, some who move a little back, and some who don't move them at all.  I just see you "going where the bar is" with aggression and that is a very good thing.  Great, great job, keep it up, keep dancing with the girl that brought you (this far, and further to go for you my friend).

[Paul LaDuke]

Pete and Jim,

Thanks for the comments!  Jim, my goal is 100/130 by late this summer for the Keystowne State Games.  Right now, I am concentrating now on leg strength and light load (70-75%) technique work.  I think I am improving, but still have ways to go.

Pete, I do jump forward just as you say, but believe it or not I have improved big time in that regard.  I think if I correct the top of the pull and get a little more pop at the top I will have eliminated the forward jump. 

Thanks again.

[Jim Hooper]

Paul, for your present purposes of technique development in the 70s and building leg strength, do you know about the Joe Mills 21-rep system (the lifts) and wave-setting your front squats?  Both are ideal tools for your purposes.  If you don't know about them and are interested, let me know and I'll send you the how-to.  Gary Valentine was kind enough to fill me in on many of the Mills system details and its become a favorite set/rep/loading scheme.  Amazing at ingraining good technique without staying so light that your system forgets what "heavier" feels like and gets all screwed up on timing as soon as you put some weight back on the bar.  Wonderful to drill and ingrain technique in the 70s and then immediately apply it in some heavier singles.  And wave-loading squats is the bomb.  They go together real well for lifters who emphasize specificity as I know you do.  This may be old hat to you, but if not, let me know.  I think you'd like both of them.  Thanks, Jim

[Jack Dluzen]

JIM , IM INTERESTED IN THE  JOE MILLS 21 REP SYSTEM, IVE HEARD OF IT A WHILE BACK , AND  WAY BACK TO... BUT I FORGET HOW IT GOES, AS I ONLY REMEMBER  BITS AND PEICES OF IT