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  1. John says

    What is up with Farris’s jerk style? To me at least it looks awkward, but if it works well for him then that’s okay. Never seen that odd style before.

    • cool says

      Looks like a split jerk. If I recall his heel used to be on the floor during the jerk. Not so much now. It looks weird, but he seems pretty stable with it from this video. He really rips the bar off the floor during the first pull!

  2. JRut says

    I’ve seen Kendrick jerk around 212 or 215 which, at his weight, is within maybe 10 kgs of an Olympic record. He’s got an unusual degree of freakish mobility that allows him to sink under his squat jerk, stabilize in the hole, and then fight his way back up. It looks pretty crazy and the margin of error is small, to say the least, but when it hits, he’s capable of truly world-class CnJ numbers. In London, I believe his final CnJ attempt was, again, within maybe 10 kgs of the best CnJ of any 85er in the games.

  3. ollie says

    Love the way the Columbians lift. Never the best technique, but they pull and attack like they’ve got nothing to lose.

  4. CasualLurker says

    Listed in order of appeareance: Francisco Mosquera, Carlos Berna, Diego Salazar, Oscar Figueroa, and Carlos Andica.
    …My own opinion about Farris; his very, very particular technique (in the jerk) may work harm-free just for him. Others may develop some serious injuries on ankles, knees, hip, and spine. He has tried some different techniques for the jerk, so I guess he has made now somewhat of a fusion between a chinese push and a split jerk. Very risky, but effective (JUST FOR FARRIS). In the snatch, he looses up in the catch, risking again his spine and shoulders. But he is so damn strong, that he manages to tigh up again, and stand, completing the lift. And in the first pull, he jerks the bar out of the floor.
    Lifting, at those levels, is also a matter of individualization of the lift, but the lifters must be wise and constant, being not only efficacious, but efficient, and sticking to a movement pattern, working and improving it, instead of jumping from one to another erratically. Again, I’m not saying there is the one-true-almighty-only technique for each lift; look at Suleymanoglu and Guozheng, for example. The first, also jerked the bar of the ground. The second, also had a very risky and particular jerk. But it doesn’t mean that one should not make some technical adjustments on elite levels, neither that one should place on top “what feels comfortable” over “what avoids injury”.

    • CasualLurker says

      Correction: In the past, I had seen some videos of him doing chinese push press, and some others doing push jerks. What I realize now is that sometimes he failed the jerk and had to dip to save it (making it look like a chinese push press), and some others he exploted remarkably well and, from an angle, it seemed as a push jerk. Anyway, here is a 2003-2010 compilation, from Kendrik’s lifts. You get to see, as I said before, how incredibly strong he was (and is), but how he has had this particular relation/struggle with technique. Just check his first snatch: horrible technique, but he completes the 122.5kg lift.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QSE8i75sW4
      I apologize for my previous, incorrect observation.

  5. Alex Gorham says

    Some very, very interesting techniques being used here, I really like that extreme sitting back before the initial pull to get a tight back (I assume). Interesting too that Diego Salazar(?) seems to pull with bent arms in the Snatch.

    Thanks!

  8. ZNCDandy says

    My inner “shoe-whore” is coming out…are those Puma Weightlifting shoes on Francisco Mosquera?