Tian tao best squat1/18/2024 ![]() When the bar moves from the floor to the knee, their knees move to a vertical shin angle. I went into my computer, I laid out videos of Nye/Kuo/Tiao/Toma and all of them were the same. I agree but I disagree with the “don’t cue it approach.” Maybe that happens with the elite athletes and the best of the best, but not everyone moves “naturally.” It’s the same stuff that Greg Everett has pointed out over the years but says it happens naturally. What we were missing was the same stuff that Brian Secrest talks about but says he doesn’t coach. ![]() Other than variation movements and clearly squatting more, they never really used specific cues other than keeping the bar tight, using the hips, having a strong upper body, etc.įinally, I knew what we were missing. I kept asking him what he worked on past the knee. I would ask Josh questions about her technique and how she moved. All of these lifters did something peculiar but I kept going back to Kate Nye.įortunately for my case, I know Kate’s coach personally. Then I spent time watching more and more of the men. Over a year ago, she had a Hookgrip video and something stuck out to me. The cues and the finish started to make sense BUT the process and road to get to those endpoints did not make sense. I noticed Kuo has a VERY vertical finish. I noticed Toma over the last year has finished much more vertical. I watched Hshin Chun Kuo lift, the moderate to short-limbed model that we follow. I watched Toma Loredana move as the long-legged lifter we model. Then I started to read the ridiculous cues I would write down. We were cueing and working on all these aspects being covered. I went back to the entire JOURNAL of notes from Pyrros Dimas, Zygmunt Smalcerz and the notes I have from the best weightlifting coaches in the US. Long-legged lifters, short leg lifters, moderate leg lifters, every body type I could think of, I put into my program analysis and started to see movement.Īs I analyzed their movement, I went back to my copious amounts of notes I have from Norik Vardanian, an individual I believe is one of the best technical models. Hours upon hours on flights watching videos in slow motion (thanks Hookgrip) and hours upon hours measuring joint angles for various lifters. ![]() Regardless, the lift below is huge no matter what Tao’s current weight is - check it out below.I started to dive back into my journals, I started to analyze our programming and our training and our movement as a team. Tao hasn’t shared his current bodyweight, but we’re guessing he’s sitting slightly heavier than what he’s competed at in the past, which has traditionally been -85kg (more than likely, we’re guessing he’s working towards the newly formulated -89kg). There are couple of other things to keep in mind about this video and why it’s so significant. Also, it’s worth noting that it looks like Tao was preparing to go for a jerk before the video cut out, so it’s tough to say if he completed the lift or even went for it for that matter. Again though, it’s tough to say how much exactly is on the bar, so the 230kg/507 lbs is an educated guess. In a recent video shared on his Instagram page, he shows an incredibly heavy clean, which many fans and followers have speculated to be 230kg/507 lbs. What might be most impressive is how clean Tao made the lift look. About two weeks ago, we wrote about Tao’s huge 280kg/617 lb front squat, which clocked in at well over 3x his projected bodyweight, and now we’re back writing on Tao again for his latest clean. Chinese weightlifter Tian Tao has once again taken the weightlifting social media scene by storm with another monstrous lift.
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