Hmmm, you seem to be strangely lacking in elbow and wrist flexibility for a competitive Olympic lifter. You are only able to hold the bar at chest level with 2 fingers. I know that is how some coaches will teach football players to front squat if they don't have the flexibility to do it properly using the clean grip. Why is that?
I have never seen someone finish a power clean with that kind of a grip.
Are you sure about those lifting claims you have made?
Have you ever seen Georgi Gardev? He's a Bulgarian lifer and if you think my wrist flexibility is bad you should see his!!! In a training tape he is performing front squats and he is holding the bar with the tip of two fingers. During his set his right arm actually comes flying off and he continues his set only holding the bar with his left arm and crossing his right one accroos his throat!
Andrei Chemerkin cannot even put the bar on his clavicle when he power cleans ... I saw him in person not able to rack 235kg on his clavicle... the bar needed to be at least 250kg to touch his shoulders/collar bone.
I have trained at the Canadian performance center with several members of the National team and a LOT of them are unable to rack a bar with a full grip.
As for being legit claims. I did snatch 120kg in competition and clean 152,5kg in competition. I have never been a platform lifter because I get very nervous and am very poor at stress management. Not to mention that I have very small hands and I'm limited by this in the snatch. My all time best snatch without straps is 125kg and my chest snatch with straps is 142,5kg, to give you an idea.
BTW, catching the bar with a finger grip isn't a sign of inferior wrist flexibility but rather:
a) a lack of latissimus dorsi flexibility
b) proportionally shorter upper arm and longer forearm
c) small hands
In my case it's due to b) and c).
