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Honestly, Smolov sure looks impossible to do for me.

By the way - does it make sense at my current strength level and experience to go with Smolov or Smolov JR before beginning my cut down phase?

What about high bar quad driven squats vs low bar hip driven squats for athleticism (read - for specificity). Some say high bar is better since there's more emphasis on quads and the quads are more important in terms of jumping and athleticism in general since they can decelerate you, help a ton with the amortization phase in a jump, help you stop on a dime, help will all kinds of movements. Sure Rippetoe comes in saying that if you can already front squat, why waste time with another quad oriented squat like the high bar squat and not go with low bar hip oriented.

Does anybody buy into any of that?

Should a guy that can't/don't want to front squat go with a high bar squat to prevent the quad from "being ignored" as there'll be less emphasis with a low bar squat on quad development/focus/tension etc etc?

Haha now THAT's a huge travel.

Yeah definitely ^^^

I was also thinking of ditching the deadlift in the speed days and go with power cleans and power snatches. So instead of squat-bench-deadlift I'll go with power clean/power snatch - squat - bench.

Well I was thinking, in terms of training, to go with what chezkenny is currently doing: squat + bench + deadlift + pullups/chinups daily, going with 1x5 one day and 9x3 the next two days for speed (with 3 reps with 60, 70 and 80% of 1RM - repeat 3 times)

But in order to push my strength while cutting, I'd actually reduce my squat weight to 130 kg for my work set and try to get as many reps as possible with that weight. 135 feels kind of heavy and the speed is not that great so 130 should give me speed and better control of the weight, plus I can probably do about 6 reps with 130 right now and I can keep on pushing the reps to target 8 if possible. If I can get 8 I'll increase the weight.

So that's the plan: 1xF, 9x3, 9x3, 1xF, 9x3, 9x3 and so on.

The fact that you do the eurostep which is a step in a direction and another step in the opposite direction is irrelevant - they are still two steps.

As far as gray areas of ruling - they could call travels on each pivot change the players do, and they do a ton of them.

OK, I'll soon begin my journey into cutting down weight (fat) and my target is to get to about ~75 kg (from my current 84). My squat is 135x5 or 300 lbs x 5.

My question is - going with my bodyweight down and down - I'll be going to lose strength so where is the point where I should kind of "stop" losing weight as the alarm signal in terms of squatting? My aim is 130x5 in the squat - dropping below that and I have a problem.

130x5 gives a projected 146 1RM, and if I get to 75 kg while maintaining a 130x5 squat then I'd have a 1.94 squat ratio vs my current 1.82.

Thanks!