Compare and contrast

Power cleans, front squats, squat cleans.

Following "The Chief" earlier in the week, Saturday provided further opportunity to progress with our movements and accordingly we looked at the clean, making better shapes with the pull and aiming for more extension. Tom in the first picture has extension of both the ankles and hips and his shoulders are high in his ears, indicating a good shrug. Tom does however pull too early with his arms , thus muting the power from the extension. The movement is still very new to him so he still is inexperienced but progressing well.
Mark in our second shot has height in his movement but the pull is appearing before his hips have had a chance to open, so again there is much power there to be harnessed, it should be noted that despite this Mark got a 25kg pb in this session, he's seen here with 70. Both of these clients are 6'3-not exactly ideal for Olympic lifting. Excellent work from all.