Yup! Hook grip. Inside of thumb getting a bit ripped up - the sweet beginnings of callouses
This grip allows you to relax your arms, which weill increase your speed wen you're flipping the bar up overhead in the snatch. That was the second thing he taught me. The first thing was "ALWAYS throw the bar away from you when you feel it going - NEVER let the bar fall on you - throw it - I don't care where, but throw it away" lol. I've only had it fall on me once - scraped my thigh. There's so much to concentrate on all at once, it's easy to forget about tossing the bar.
I've let the bar "float" a few times, and thrown it into my oesophagus by mistake - this isn't comfortable, lol.
Yeah, Nonerz, the first few moves of every session are always a bit jerky, because nothing's habitualised yet - I'm still thinking about each part of the move - bar over balls of feet, slow on the first pull, explode from mid thigh, up on calves, explode traps , bring up the elbows, arms relaxed, flip op the bar - OPEN hands to let it drop onto shoulders, etc etc. It all happens so quickly, but it's coming together very nicely - my cleans are good, the push jerks aren't bad, except for not pulling my shoulders blades together. And I simply can't believe how quickly my squat is going up. I squatted four times last week - 2 back, 2 front, and every time the weight jumped. It's eerie.
My coach also told me a very cool thing - as one starts lifting heavier weights, so the bar bends, right? Well, OL'ers USE this bendy "whippiness" of the bar to add to the speed of their lift and the amount of weight they can lift by timing the rebound of the bendy ends of the bar to coincide with their upthrust, thus allowing the bar's momentum to basically lift itself!!! I think that is SO the funkiest thing!
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