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In the leg press vid the guy is also locking his knees after extending which you never want to do.

Locking the knees is a natural human movement.

Thanks and yeah, that was like totally unexpected. I mean, I was wavering if I could do one rep, thinking about if I need to drop the bar and all that. Guess it's going to happen again when I try the 140, although I'm very confident I can do it.

Its not that bad, you just loop the bar path so it has a very long way to travel rather than going up in a straight line.  Just looked again and noticed your feet look a little wide, try starting in a foot position you would do a svj from, youll get more power into it that way.

Yeah I always do that, with both power snatches and power cleans, and especially for the hang variants. I usually start the movement well with the hips and all that and the arms are like ropes, but then as I go up I stop extending at the hips/legs and the movement becomes "arm" driven. Will try the hook grip next time (here it was a "quasi-hook" grip). But I just have this problem and it applies to jumping as well - I stop the hip extension before it is completed, like I can't trust I can stop it properly so I stop it early. Maybe a sign of ab weakness and the CNS feels it and tries to protect against injury so it shuts down the hip extension early?

Hey great job on the squats man. Thats the best form Ive seen you use ever. And the best depth. Nice going.  

The snatches is a different story, but Lance is taking care of that, so that will get better quick. Looking forward to seeing some new snatch vid with great form.

Thanks

As for the snatches, yes Lance is great on them and explaining but it's still up to me to do it... and I don't currently trust my abilities to do it...

whoa, raptor in a fitness gym.. wtf

nice skwats.

Yup. I'm a rich bastard. Oh wait...

But anyway, this absolutely blows my former PR of a VERY HARD 130x1 high bar squat set like 1 year ago... man that felt soooo heavy. This was planned to go 130x1 as well but since I had so much speed out of the whole I was like "hey, I can do a few more reps with this".

I was expecting to be a major difference between 120 and 130 based on my last try when I was high bar squatting but it was just very slightly heavier yesterday. That's why I think I can squat 140.


PS. I'm still amazed nobody talked about the girl in pink.

Thanks and yeah, I have great speed on that 130x3. Definitely can do a 140x1. The problem is my depth which is not really associated with the weight. I just can't get lower, I lack something, flexibility I think but I'm not sure where.

Even with this wide stance that I'm using I won't get lower unless I elevate my heels which I don't really want to.

130x3:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JI1fIaI7Kw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JI1fIaI7Kw</a>

120x5:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_I09mXCAkw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_I09mXCAkw</a>

Hang snatches with 35 kg (bad form, tired):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt17ZeFunbI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt17ZeFunbI</a>

Hang snatches with 30 kg:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn0LH1AZutQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn0LH1AZutQ</a>

Well I stand by what I said...

Anyway, yeah I'm on The Vertical Summit as well, the guy from Romania. You said some time ago you went through my country years back.

Quote from: Raptor on December 15, 2010, 04:31:51 pm

And yeah, I'm already doing that stretch... I sometimes get lowerback pain from it, probably I need to flex the abs more I guess while doing it.

Try tensing your glutes of the stretched leg and keep your ribcage down!

Yeah that's probably it, prevents spine rotation and tuck-in I guess.

Yes but when I jump off two feet, the right side of my abs hurts like hell, like it's being put under a great stretch stress... I just am not flexible to do that and trust me, that affects the hip extension. It's not only the "traditional" hip flexors that stop the hip extension in my opinion. I have no idea about what the abs do movement wise (I think they're hip flexors as well, I don't know and I don't care) - I know I need to get better at this.