For those who may not yet have studied some photographs of the flatfooted and
plantarflexed pulling styles as used by some of the world’s top lifters, go
to the following files in our Supertraining Files section:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/files/Pulls1.jpg

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/files/Pulls2.jpg
It was written:

> Also pulling is not as big a problem as other matters of technique,
> such as the jerk. Although clean and jerk performances have fallen
> since the 1980s, there are two two snatch records that have exceeded
> the old world records and lifters on average seem to have a higher
> snatch: C&J ration than before. As for the C&J, it is rare to see a
> lifter fail to rack the bar so the pull is rarely the limiting factor
> in the C&J.

Mel Siff:

> [The pull is a crucial aspect of lifting, especially in the snatch, since
> it decrees where and when you are able to drop under the bar to
> catch it and stabilise most efficiently. One cannot compare the lifts today
> with those of several years ago because the IWF idiotically altered the
> bodymass divisions. Incidentally, to which snatch records are you
> referring? ]

Someone anonymously wrote:

The comments above include Mutlu’s 138.5 kg@56 and Markov’s 165 kg@69 snatches
versus the old records in the 56 and 67.5 kg categories (135 & 160).
As you well know, lifts done in today’s bodyweight classes can be
compared to lifts in the old weight classes using the various formula
methods, if not by inspection alone.
Dr Mel Siff
Denver, USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/