Deadlift Help

[scotthm2]

Anyone offer any constructive criticism on my sumo dead technique? Please and thanks.

[Squatticus]

dont pull sumo often so i cant get specific
-Keep weight on your heels, youre shifting around alot
-your hips flew straight up, unlike conventional deads, the bar should be touching your legs when your legs before you setup(not sure if that makes sense)

[birdiefu]

Ditch the straps, they are effing with your setup - you aren't able to adjust until you are at the top (with the foot shuffling, etc), and that means your pull is ineffecient and you are *much* more likely to get injured. And with the straps, if the pull goes wrong, you can't just drop it - it's going to take you down and if you twanged your back, it will be even worse with the bar pulling you via straps. Learn to setup your foot placement in relation to the bar, then grab and pull, you lose way too much down at the bottom fiddling around for so long.

Your hips are rising first and the bar is going forward. Put your weight further back towards your heels and when you initiate the pull it's going to be all hips and glutes while everything else stays tight - push your knees out while driving hips forward and up so the bar gets pulled back to you as you rise. You probably need to lower the weight and work more on getting form tight. Also try to avoid touch-and-go reps - reset at the bottom so it's a true "dead weight" lift each rep.

A vid showing more from the front to see stance width/foot angle/knee cave if any would also be good for more assessment.

But good work so far and you are moving some decent weight. You will be able to move even more once you drop it a bit and work on getting form tight though. Hope that helps!

ETA: Like Squatticus said, you aren't going to have as much shin angle going on with Sumo at the bottom like conventionals, so yes the bar should be much closer to the shin during setup. However, if you position the bar at mid-foot during setup, this would still put it in the right place due to the foot angle.

[Partyrocking]

I think your foot angle was off- hard to tell though. You want your knees tracking your toes and since your legs are out wider, you want your feet turned out when you start to match. It looked like your feet were pointed forward and turned out during the lift. Start w/ them turned out.

[scotthm2]

Thanks for the advice. Repped where i could (you must spread some reputation....)
I have deloaded and re videod. Concentrated on bar closer to shins and weight on my heels. I am going to repost in hopes of more views/responses.