Weightlifting Korean National Team

I was fortunate enough to meet the Korean National Team and capture some footage of a few of their Olympic team members who took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. During my visit in Korea I got to train at the University Training Center where most of their premiere athletes are brought up to the National Training Center. During my visit, a weightlifting film titled "LIFTING KING KONG" was in the making. I was training alongside many of their top Junior lifters whom I met at the 2008 Junior Worlds in Colombia, along with actors and actresses in the film who were learning the lifts to perform in this highly promoted film. It truly was a great experience and tried to take in as much advice as I could for the short period of my stay. The head coach of the University Training Center (the man in all black with glasses) was a pretty creditable athlete in his time as a 82.5 kg lifter. I'm not sure exactly what his numbers were but he did say he was around top 5 in the 80's. He was telling me, at that time Vardanian of the Soviet Union and I believe Blagoev of Bulgaria were in dominance in the 82.5 class. I also might add to his creditability, the National Training Center you see in this video was designed by him. Note the amount of volume and repetitions the Koreans use, although it was after a major competition, and didn't really have anything to look forward to until the Korean Nationals which would take part several months after. The Koreans believe in purely the Russian/Soviet system.

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[MellonVegan]

Interesting. Some of them have a very narrow stance during the jerk drive. My coach (he´s from russia) always tells me to have a wider stance (like when you are squatting).

I wonder which one has which advantages under which circumstances.

[MasterfulLee1]

@MellonVegan I dont think the placement of the feet for the drive is too important although the placment of the feet for the split is. I believe splitting the feet wide in the jerk is important.

[MasterfulLee1]

This will allow you to recover with a wider stance giving you better stability in holding the weight overhead. A narrow split leaves you with more margin for error because of the fact that you will have less balance and a weaker base.

[MasterfulLee1]

A perfect example is Sa Jae Hyouks(77cat) jerk. He has a great clean but struggles to hold the bar overhead because his split is too narrow and short. The narrow and short split plus the narrow recovery I believe cost him the world record in the clean and jerk on more then one occasion.

[MasterfulLee1]

Don't get me wrong Jae Hyouk is an excellent weightlifter but his flaws are in the snatch and his split jerk. Take a look at this video and you may have a better understanding of what I'm trying to say.

[MasterfulLee1]

sorry youtube will not allow me to link the videos for some reason. however, look him up sa jae hyouk on youtube and watch his world record attempts to get a better understanding

[tldevilsh]

my testosterone level is rising just from watching this

[MasterfulLee1]

@2066241 yes... every other country uses kg besides the U.S

[leeonr]

@MasterfulLee1 actually i think that there is no problem with his technique. if he had technique problems he'd come nowhere close to doing world record, let alone being one of the strongest clean and jerker in the history of weightlifting.

[tldevilsh]

great stuff man thanks

[Chunkylova53]

Some of the girls are bigger than the men >>