So glad I watched this. There is a difference in sitting back in a squat and driving your knees down like he showed us. This totally just blew my mind and helped me understand what my body should be doing. Thanks!!
First, thanks for your time and help! A very interesting, important, and controversial question is: will the olympic style lifts build speed/power in specific sports? That is, does the O-Lifts have real dynamic correspondence to sport specific movements? By sport specific movements I mean things like bag work for boxing, throwing a baseball, shooting a basketball, drilling a wrestling move, etc. I think this topic seriously merits its own video. Please do one. It is my opinion that PL can provide a foundation of overall strength that one can combine with sport specific movement training to build speed and power in the exact movements of the sport. That is, you're better learning to express your strength in the most direct way possible, the specific movements, not the O-Lifts. Power, on a neurological level, is a specific skill, one enhanced through specific practice. And the only training that develops the raw material that can be molded for this specific practice is PL training. To be fast, you must practice the activity at which you want to be fast. Lifting fast or explosively has very little to do with how fast you Punch, kick, run, jump. Any performance transfer that does occur from the Olympic lift variations is due to the strength gains achieved from lifting heavy loads, not enhanced rate-of-force development. Therefore, the O-Lifts are not necessary and in fact do not have a dynamic correspondence of speed/power to sports. When you address your baseline strength with PL and address your ability to express that strength (speed/power) in the specific sports movements, what are cleans and snatchs going to give you that you’re not already getting? (some quotes from Eric Minor article included)
I googled it. I think in the heaving snatch balance you start with the feet in the OHS stance and they don't move from that during the exercise. Whereas with the snatch balance you start in the power/jumping position with the feet and shift them to the squat stance as you catch it
