The powerlifters at my gym were telling me to do that too when I was using the Rippletoes setup. Reasoning was my legs are stronger than my back. More knee extension involved equals greater lifts according to them.

The problem is there is no logic behind this. As you can see in Khalyn's vid, his knee extension is already done before the bar comes off the floor. Thus, the hamstrings' involvement in the lift is actually minimized.

Now, in other powerlifters you can see a style that is similar (like Pat Mendes), but where his legs aren't completely straight when the bar breaks off the floor. I've seen thremp and prob others argue that Rip exaggerates the effect his technique has on hamstring involvement, which is probably true. Khalyn clearly extends his knees too much before lifting though.

Under any circumstances, I can't see a reason why the non-Ripples setup is actually more effective. Their argument is basically a non-argument, knee extension without lifting is irrelevant.

oh sorry i watched another link i think. They had me drive my ass way down before and extend during the lift not before. I felt much less back and way more legs after.

Squat set 1 100kg
Squat set 2 100kg

When the weight gets heavy i tend to goodmorning a little bit (which i try to fix by looking up) and lose a bit of depth.

Power clean set 1 40kg
Power clean set 4 40kg

@IronEggs

1. Squats seem fine, try keeping your chest up at the hard part though.
2. Where you meet the bar, move your ass back to keep the back fully extended. You now do a hop (backwards) to stabilize. When you shove your ass more back, you can stabilize without having to hop back. When you start doing heavier weights this will become more important.

Goodluck

J

I never got the hang of riips setup.

rip says it should be exactly like a deadlift.

oly lifting coaching say otherwise; sit back more, back more vertical and some other stuff.

It's been a while since I've done a form check. Apologies on the vid quality. Forgot my camera and the donk held the phone vertical instead of sideways. ugh.

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and then your ass went right back to where it would have in the rip setup before the bar broke the floor.

they look OK, but you do start cutting off depth as the set goes on. Everything is shifting a bit forward in the hole and you end up loosing some bounce and hip drive because of it. The weight doesn't look that heavy for you.

Looks pretty solid. One thing I would keep an eye on is that your foot angle is pretty extreme which can exaggerate knee cave (which you have a little, but not much).

yeah noticed that too. my stance is a little wider than normal too. glad i took vids.

Did these a couple of weeks ago and forgot to upload

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9WIwqV2M9I

Wow seriously? It felt heavy

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+1, very solid form. Which I guess it should be at what is prob very light for you even with recuperating from the surgery?

Really? Thought they looked very close to a 5RM. Agree on comments.

yeah his bar-speed is slow and it's heavy the way he's doing it, but I think he squats that a lot easier once he shores up his form.

yeah light weight

Ah right, agree on that.

Ok that's good to hear

Is there anyone here who could form check my front crawl?

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They look pretty damn good to me.

When you first posted, I was going to guess that you weren't going deep enough. Holy hell was I wrong...

knees sliding hard at the bottom. also caving inward it appears

Miles: How do I stop knees sliding/what are the negatives associated with sliding? I get the feeling the knees slide as a result of the divebombing I do. As for caving, I don't think they are but I will get a vid tomorrow from behind and post it.

Yetio: Yeh depth has never been an issue for me haha