Stop Overcomplicating It - Staying Over The Bar in the Snatch & Clean

People will fight endlessly about The One True Way when it comes to this topic - push the knees back and get farther over, or maintain a more constant back angle.

I used Lopez and Nasar as examples specifically to address this - these two broke world records in the snatch back to back in the same competition with two completely different technical approaches.

And world records continue to be broken with significantly different motions/positions. So to claim one is inherently and universally superior is just nonsensical.

Focus on what matters: staying over long enough rather than getting behind the bar too early.

Thank you to Torokhtiy Media for the videos of Yeison Lopez & Karlos Nasar

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