Olympic Lifting Workshop - The Snatch

Saturday 091205

I would like to than Juan and Christine of CrossFit ATP, Broward County's newest affiliate in Dania Beach, for allowing me to have an Olympic Lifting Workshop teaching the Snatch.  We had a great group of people who enthusiastically participated in learning the Snatch.  For the most part, the  group pick up on the classic lift quickly but found out how humbling the lift can be.  Not many realized the strength, power, flexibility, coordination, and accuracy that is required to perform the lift correctly.

We went through warm-up drills, covered the difference between an Olympic Squat vs the others, and proceeded with a top down approach to the learning progressions.  There are many ways to teach the classic lifts, but this is the method I originally was taught after attending several CrossFit Oly certification with Coach Mike Burgener, a coaching course taught by Greg Everret of Catalyst Athletics/ Performance Menu, and several Olympic Workshops and USAW Club Coach Certification by Danny Camargo.  The method made sense to me and I continue to use with my own training as well teaching others.

Again, thank you for the opportunity to work with each of you.  I hope you find the same love of the lifts as I have developed.  Also, Juan and Christine are growing a quality affiliate and bring a lot of experience to the table as well as the desire to truly coach their athletes.
 

Comments

[Juan Bacca]

Steve, I can't thank you enough for putting on such a quality workshop. I truly mean that. It was probably the most fun I have had at a workshop and I have been to many. Our clients came away with great corrective skills on the Oly lifts that they could not believe. I myself was very humbled with the snatch. This is a totally different monster for me and it really showed me my dysfunctions. Just something more that I need to work on to be a better athlete!
We are looking forward to part 2. This is the kind of quality workshops that we want at CrossFit ATP to keep building our facility, we are very pleased to have you share your knowledge with our box!
Thank you so much,
Juan Bacca

[Stephan - CF Broward]

David - you did well! Everyone did well...it was great to see the enthusiasm.

When we are not training together, stick to the progressions we went over. It will pay off huge as you develop the technical proficency with the lift...unlike most where they rush to have people throwing weight around but without the ability perform the lift effectively.

[David]

As humbling as it was indeed, I was very surprised to see I could pull it off after your instructions.

Thanks so much for doing this. I can tell it'll take a lot of practice, but I am going to have this lift in my WODs soon!