Meanwhile in the U.S. …
22 year old Muhammad Begaliev from Uzbekistan gets a 163kg Snatch off blocks.
He won the 85kg at the 2013 American Open with 157+185 (at just 80.75kg bodyweight!).
Thanks to Zac for the info.
Update: Reader Jonas send in this video of his American Open performance, including warm up lifts.
Where does he train in the US?
The video title says Lindenwood University, same place Fernando Reis was training at when he visted.
Doh. Watched on mobile so that got cut off. Thanks!
is he planning to be a 77?
I think you have a mistake in the script, he only CJd 185 (188 miss) not 195. Watching the video I thought that going up from 185 to 195 would’ve been pretty wild considering how toughthe 185 looked :p
Oh yes, thanks for pointing it out.
Also his clean pullsare interesting, he really prioritises keeping the bar close and going under quickly over pulling it higher.
This is a common mistake and he should correct this beacuse he loose lot of torque doing that.
If it works for him, why does it matter that he “looses torque”? He appears very efficient, and with a Snatch/Clean and Jerk ratio like that I’d say strength is probably prioritized more in his training ATM.
Why do you assume that this technique works for him? I think not and If he correct this he could do more
I assume that because he won the American Open? Nobody has perfect technique; not even guys like Xiaojun, Dimas, Ilyin, etc. But they adjust their form to work for them as individuals. EVERYONE needs technique work.
http://www.catalystathletics.com/articles/article.php?articleID=1795
The above article sums it up pretty well.
i’am think you agree that American Open is not a big competition.
I agree that every lifter have to adjust technique for his own body structure etc. but what he does is a bigger fault,
In my WL Club in Poland Im training with a former World and Europe Champions like Hilary and Andrzej Cofalik .
I was doing the same fault like him and they always told me that i have correct this. Nowadays my technique is better (I’ve eliminated this kind of fault) and my results are better.
They have perfect technique for them but not textbook. Dimas threw his head way back and swang the bar out in front of him. Ilya used to swing the bar way out on his snatches and almost dislocated his elbow catching the 180 snatch in the 2008 Olympics because of it. Xiaojun lets his cleans drift away from him sometimes and they crash on his neck a lot hence the near permanent reoccurring bruise on his neck.
I do agree that cutting the extension is a bad form flaw and something that is universally corrected in training but he isn’t really cutting the pull short. Other than the 20kg and 70kg warm up he extends with all of his weights fully. You can pause it at the top of the extension and see that indeed he extends fully. His knees stay bent and then in a single frame straighten and fully extend before he goes under the bar. It probably just isn’t enough weight for him to get into full extension and maintain form. Many Russians have this issue with light weights. Chemerkin had this issue at 250 kg lol. If anything is wrong with his form, its that he doesn’t get under the bar well in the clean and has immense trouble getting under the bar in the jerk.
I strongly disagree. I don’t quite understand what you mean by ‘losing torque’, but at least from this material we can clearly see that his short pull is not effecting his catch negatively (not too far forward rack position, unable to time the bounce etc.). The only way to know for sure is to see the guy’s most frequent type of fails and know his strength levels. I reckon like Ponz that he is gonna keep on making good gains if he gets stronger, as he is clearly very efficient atm.