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Originally Posted by Hoopster81
You look tall in this vid - how tall are you?
I'm 6'7", starting to get into CF, and feel pretty awkward and ******ed doing the olympic lifts. Any tips?
Yeah, I'm a little over 6'6". My first advice would be to find something that doesn't suck so bad for tall people. Maybe getting things for old ladies off of high shelves would be more rewarding.
Anyway, I'd really be critical of your CF coaches with regard to the lifts. They might be well intentioned, but typically they do not have lots of experience watching lifts and are not USAW (assuming you're in the US) coaches.
Check out
http://weightlifting.teamusa.org/clu...-info/club-map and see about a couple hours of coaching from someone local; take what you learn back to your CF workouts. It will pay off a ton.
Anecdotally, I have a coach who's generally a good coach and sees big flaws, but has only been a USAW and CF coach for a couple of years. Contrast to a very experienced WL coach who watched me lift for only a couple of hours and setup my clean totally differently and drastically improved my first pull. My regular coach is very valuable, a pretty good deal and runs a good program, but I still consider ways to get more outside coaching.
Another issue for tall people that I've seen is flexibility - I'm lucky to be flexible enough to hit all my positions, but I know this isn't the case for others. A good coach can show you which mobility drills can help.
Also, I really like Greg Everett's book, Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches. It's not perfect and there are more thorough texts that I've seen, but I think it really has helped me as a beginner more than other stuff I've read.
Good luck!