Topic: 2005 69Kg Clean and Jerk

[Frank Rothwell]

2005 69 Kg Clean and Jerk xvid

[Nick Horton]

Frank,

I've been meaning to tell you that I've really appreciated the dilligence with which you've been putting these vids up.  You're creating quite the public archive of elite level lifting! 

My own lifters spend a lot of time watching them, and I tell the new ones to get onto youtube and watch, watch,watch.  What a great learning tool that wasn't available 10 years ago!   It used to be Iron Mind tapes ... and that was it (those are still great, of course).  Now, there is a massive amount of examples of fantastic lifting. 

No young lifter has any excuse not to know what it is supposed to look like.

Thanks again,
Nick

[Frank Rothwell]

Thank,you Nick. I'ts good to know that young lifters are using the videos to learn about our sport.
Frank

[Aussie]

Weird. I actually watched this video tonight...before logging into here.

As a young lifter (in the 69kg class), watching vid's like this is amazing. I love how the do a great slow motion of the shot in such fine detail.

Earlier this week I spent a whole session on getting under the bar quicker since that's my main problem. Watching the slow version of the cleans (as well as the jerks....mostly the clean though), the importance of once you've pulled the bar as high as it'll go, you pull yourself under the bar by almost racing the weight down. Due to it by definition being super heavy, being able to squat (or split) under the bar extremely quick is needed.

After all....the bar is dropping at 9.8m per second