Sorry to those of you I told I would have a post on the Push Jerk here for you today. Blogger is doing some sort of maintenance and I can't post pictures or videos at this time. I'll get it up tonight if I'm able. Meanwhile read this...
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P.S. Below is my attempt at a blog post last night that apparently only posted some of what I was working on. Ignore it and I'll repost the complete post tonight. Thanks.
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Today the Foothill volleyball girls got a crack at jerks (as in clean and jerk) for the first time. This is a very complex movement that requires a lot of coordination and by the end of the day they were looking solid on their form...
Check out Pyrros Dimas, one of the all-time great olympic lifters, in the video below perform a clean and jerk. Notice in the jerk that he dips straight down on his heels with his chest up. He then stops the momentum of that downward movement with an aggressive jump in order to get the bar moving back up and eventually over his head. Now, Pyrros is lifting such a heavy weight that he actually has to push his body back underneath the bar because he isn't strong enough to push the weight up with his shoulders. Notice that when he pushes his body underneath the bar his arms are immediately locked out when he lands and his shoulders are in his ears. Anything else and he would undoubtedly fail in this lift.
I suggest you pause and play the video clip very quickly several times at 50 seconds, 51 seconds, and 52 seconds to see the different aspects of the jerk
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