Dr Mel Siff Discusses Weightlifting Pulling Technique
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Here is some continued discussion from the IWF list on the weightlifting
pulling questions which I posed recently:
One Supertraining Member contributed the following:
<< After reviewing many videos and digitizing many others it appears that
many of the best technicians in the pull (e.g. Petrov) pull flat footed as
long as possible until they begin the transition pull from the knee to the
high chest position. At that point they seem to shift to the balls of their
feet before they go into the final extension of the pull.>
Mel Siff:
*** But that is exactly what was taught in Weightlifting several decades ago
and is not the much vaunted “flatfooted” style whose merits are so widely
extolled nowadays. Way back then some lifters displayed a high heel raise, Read more…