snatch technique

[hurdles4eva]

i just started snatching and everything is going fine till i get the bar to the overhead position. do u have any tips on how to stay stable and balance when i get the bar over my head ?

[J.L.C.]

i just started snatching and everything is going fine till i get the bar to the overhead position. do u have any tips on how to stay stable and balance when i get the bar over my head ?

Drop snatches help me a lot with overhead stability and just feeling more comfortable with the bar.

[Kiknskreem]

Overhead squats.

[GoJu]

overhead squats and drop snatches as has been suggested, another move that helped me was snatch-grip push presses BTN.

[slyf0z_87]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYTRQEDlVU&eurl=http://lifthard.com/

Any comments please?
can't stand looking at the 42KG boys lifting 60KG's snatches and i'm at 75 and only snatching 40KG's. Bleh, shud've started early.

[ehlpitel]

Overhead squats and drop snatches.

Try getting some O-lifting shoes if you're dedicated.

BTW, if you're at an O-lifting gym, isn't there a coach around?

My coach had me learning drop snatches, overhead squats and hang snatches before I even could start doing it from the floor.

[slyf0z_87]

There is. Okay, here's the story.

1. I wanna train there, but I can't because of school dedications. Education first

2. The other gym I train in, doesn't allow slamming of weights. So I can't really snatch

3. We have shoes, it's just that I was about to leave for home, then suddenly wanted to lift some more, and asked them to go back and leave me the keys, so that's why the coach isn't there.

4. I'm already overhead squatting 95KG's and drop snatching 80KG's already (I keep falling forward, it's like my lats can't lock!), with a 90KG high pull, but because I cannot go to this o-lift gym, my coach doesn't know that I've been training them. I just do this in my campus gym.

He's from China and they really really emphasize a huge amount of technique, more than they do for strength. So he wants to see me snatch with a bar over 500 times in a day before he believes I'm prepared. And I'm having a tough time explaining to him in my mediocre mandarin, that i've been practicing them. He just tells me that I need to train some more.

Trust me, I'm really interested in learning the snatch, but we have a communicating issue. He doesn't know how to tell me, which part I'm not locking hard enough and all that, and I can't understand him. So I'm posting vids so I can get replies in english, that'll help me understand.

[slecontev]

Hurdlesforeva, since you're in Altamonte Springs I assume you're in good hands with Danny Camargo. Have patience. More snatches, first of all, then a substantial quantity of overheasd squats. The squats don't have to be heavy.

Slyfoz, I responded on your video at youtube.