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Korean Weightlifting

Korean weightlifting is to be emulated. No doping positives. The men finished in a solid 4th team ranking after the 2011 world championship. The photos below are from the 2009 Worlds in Goyang City, South Korea. This is a sequence of Kim Seon-jong KOR 94kg. This 168kg snatch was a miss. In frame 7 it [...]

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The Russians are coming!

Both KIREEV Rinat 85kg and DEMANOV Andrey 94kg trained together. Although they are different heights and body weights they show identical finishes to phase four “The final acceleration”. This was the heaviest training snatch I ever saw them take. In competition Rinat did 170kg and Andrey 178kg. It was somewhat of a rarity to actually [...]

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Olympic Weightlifting Is 7 yrs old too young?

Vladislav Lukanin  began weightlifting at age 7 under the guidance of his father Valery – an experienced coach, and master of sport. At 12 years old, Vladislav at a bodyweight of 44.5 kg snatched 77.5 kg and CJed  95 kg = 172.5 kg total, this was 15 kg over the Master of Sports of Russia [...]

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AKKAEV Khadzhimurat RUS

AKKAEV Khadzhimurat RUS has fairly atypical jump forward of maybe 8-10″. I’ve attempted to show just how far forward he jumps (photo below). Jump I feel is the correct word, he does not jump to get height and does not jump to get a full extension as in the traditional vertical jump. In photo #5 [...]

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Assistance Lifts and the Snatch and CJ

% of total 281 kg 305kg snatch 44.4 124.8 135 CJ 55.6 156.2 170 P sn 36.4 102.3 – P cl 45.6 128.1 – Jerk rack 57.3 161 175 Cl pull 62 174.2 190 Fr sq 60.4 169.7 185 B sq 72.0 202.3 220 Bench press 40 112.4 –   The above chart showed remarkable [...]

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Lu Xiaojun CHN 77kg twenty frame sequence CJ

  An easy opener with 200kg for the dynamic explosive Chinese lifter Lu Xiaojun. He would be a favorite to win gold in London. However the depth chart in China is constantly changing and fresh new faces appear quickly.

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Comparative photos of key positions in snatch technique

About the layout for the sequences; please note this was a quick job, very crude quick scaling and not consist sizing of the lifters. The selected lifters were somewhat taken at random(depending on similar camera frame rate) and are from left to right KIM Min-Jae KOR (187 kg attempt) 7th place in total SEDOV Vladimir [...]

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Sa KOR 77kg partial clean sequence

His clean technique is very efficient IMO. Standing up from his clean with 211kg at the 2011 worlds was ridiculously easy, ie. very fast. Still my guess is that he isn’t the biggest squatter at 77kg. Precision of body position throughout the squatting motion and speed strength probably take priority in most of his squatting [...]

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China – Weightlifting Training Hall

I watched Dajin Su 77kg at the 2009 worlds do these 210kg snatch pulls for reps and many, many sets. You have to marvel at the strength and work capacity of Su. Whether it makes sense to use 127 % of the weight you lifted in the competition (165kg), might be questioned.  Even if 127 [...]

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Lu CHN 77kg 2011 World Champion

Lu’s low body fat offers him an advantage over his competitors.

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