I practiced cleans yesterday with no weight, PVC, weighted PVC, and a barbell. I'm trying to find out if I can do barbell cleans at all without aggravating my elbow tendonitis. So I want to obsess on technique with light weight for a while. I took a lot of video so I could analyze what I'm actually doing. Maybe this can help somebody else too; lots of people have the habit of bending the elbows too soon. My specific goal in working on cleans is to eliminate that habit.
After watching this video, I'm not sure I should be practicing highpulls at all: maybe just straight-arm shrugs followed by hang cleans. That's what I'll do next time.
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