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Originally Posted by Scorpion
You have lower back pain because your deadlift form is so bad. You are lifting to heavy. As you come to the top of the lift you are leaning over and placing all the weight on your lower back which makes it look like you are bowing to somebody. You need to get your hips and ass lower at the start and explode thru your heels from the lift-off and come up in one straight motion. You will seriously hurt your self if you keep lifting like that. Get a good trainer or coach who knows the deadlift and work on the form with much less weight. You will get to the heavier weight quicker when you use correct form. I am 40 years old and have done competitions for 15 years. I still can do 600 for a deadlift without a belt or wraps because I have worked on form forever. I would hate to see you get hurt and stop because of it.
1) He's definitely not overextending at the top
2) No. Youtube "rippetoe deadlift" to see examples of this DL style. It's definitely not worse than setting up lower with your ass. In fact, it's very probably better for most since it ensures a tighter setup, while the style you advocate generally tends to lead to looser hamstrings.
Other than that, post looks good. I don't think Jeff's setup looks dangerous anymore though.