Re: Unique Clean & Jerk Technique

[Guest guest]

Mel,

This was brought up on the Go Heavy forum, and this article was found

to be a phony. It was created on April Fools Day. I am not for sure on this,

but there were several people who claimed that this article was indeed

a joke. Did anyone else hear of this?

[it seems as if we will have to ask Bud Charniga, who put this on his site

as a serious article. Whatever the facts, I will always remain a split cleaner,

one of the very few left -- rising from my extremely low front squat position

and still hoping to execute a jerk is not my idea of fun! Mel Siff]

Malcomb

University of Colorado - Boulder

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[Guest guest]

Mel,

I read this same article a few months ago. It actually had sequential

photos of the technique. I will go through my files to try and locate

the web site location.

Ken Largent

Bend, Oregon

[Guest guest]

Dr. Siff,

Hoax or not, this could bring new meaning to the term " repetitive

concussion syndrome " . I don't anticipate asking any athletes to try

this without their helmet!

Plisk

Yale University

New Haven, CT

> Last year a letter sent to Supertraining featured a Russian April

> Fool's Day

> joke in which the lifter snatched the bar from behind the back, a tall

> tale

> which fooled some people for a while, but which was soon recognised

> for what

> it was. However, Bud Charniga reports on a genuine, very unusual

> new clean

> and jerking technique that was actually used in competition. Read

> this

> introduction to his article, then study the rest of it at:

>

> http://www.dynamic-eleiko.com/sportivny/library/farticles002.html

>

> ---------------------

>

> A New Technique: will it be recognized?

>

> It was exactly one year ago today that Mumikon Mumikonov (56 kg) from

> Gabrov

> was competiing in the National Championships of Bulgaria. Having

> already

> secured second place in the clean and jerk with his second attempt, he

> took

> 175 kgs for his third attempt; a weight which exceeded Neno

> Terziisky’s

> record of 171 kgs, set before the introduction of the new weight

> classes.

> This weight would give him first place in the jerk as well as in the

> total.

>

> The judges were not anticipating any " new " innovation in technique,

> when

> Mumikonov lifted the barbell, not to his chest, as is the normal

> method, but

> [right over his head] onto his shoulders, across the trapezius

> muscles. After

> a hard recovery, Mumikonov paused for about 30 seconds with the

> barbell

> across his shoulders; then jerked the weight from behind his neck.

> ......

>

> -------------------

>

> Would anyone care to try this technique- - carefully! -- and offer

> some

> feedback. I may also try it later this evening. The full squat jerk

> was bad

> enough, but this may be even more challenging!

>

> Dr Mel C Siff

> Denver, USA

> Supertraining/

[Guest guest]

Mel Siff wrote:

<Last year a letter sent to Supertraining featured a Russian April

Fool's Day joke in which the lifter snatched the bar from behind

the back, a tall tale which fooled some people for a while, but

which was soon recognised for what it was. However, Bud Charniga

reports on a genuine, very unusual new clean and jerking technique

that was actually used in competition>

Mel,

This is exactly the same article from last year. There original is here:

http://www.shtanga.kcn.ru/

The owner of this page is associated with OL club " Raiden " from Kazan, Russia.

That article was really posted on April 1st and is in fact a joke. At least so

thought the

author. Here's his e-mail address:

shtanga@...

I'm not sure wheather he speaks English though. Sometimes he signs

as " materialist " , sometimes as " compiler " ........

[Just when I was beginning to go places with this new technique, which I found

much easier to do with a wider, almost snatch style hand spacing! But to manage

anything near 70 percent of one's normal jerk using that style is really an

impossible April Fool's joke! Great to know that even some Russians like to

play practical jokes! Mel Siff]

Vlad Medeski

Moscow, Russia