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I'm always surprised by how many (experienced) coaches think that the bar is supposed to bang against the thigh/hips during the pull.
I'm always surprised by how many (experienced) coaches think that the bar is supposed to bang against the thigh/hips during the pull.
Do they really believe it is possible to "knee" the bar upwards? Not to mention that this seems like a pretty painful strategy.
It is another example of people only being able to coach what they can see. In weightlifting, the knees come forwards underneath the bar, and then it pops upwards (due to the athlete jumping). To the untrained eye this can look like the bar being "banged" upwards.
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One of @stevemagness's "Rules of Everything" is "We overemphasise the importance of what we can measure and what we already know".
Similarly, in skills coaching we overemphasise the importance of what we can see.
One of @stevemagness's "Rules of Everything" is "We overemphasise the importance of what we can measure and what we already know".
Similarly, in skills coaching we overemphasise the importance of what we can see.
In Olympic weightlifting, one of the easiest positions to see is the so called “triple extension” that occurs at the end of the pull.
This leads many coaches to spend a great deal of time working on this position.
This leads many coaches to spend a great deal of time working on this position.
However, emphasising the triple extended position often leads to a bad result. The athlete spends too long at the end of the pull, when they should already be preparing to catch the bar.
