The Double Knee Bend

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Mark Rippetoe

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🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Mark Rippetoe discusses the double knee bend or second pull and how the teaching of this movement is built into the Starting Strength teaching method for the Olympic lifts. --------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SiWwVC7brmY WEBSITE: https://startingstrength.com FORUM: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/ STORE: https://aasgaardco.com Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AasgaardCo Watch us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingstrength/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SS_strength Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting-Strength-The-Aasgaard-Company/142424022490628 -----------------------------

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0:00.0	Was there a revenge moment there when you figured out how to teach the second pole?
0:04.0	No.
0:05.0	No, I just realized one day that ship were teaching the second pull.
0:11.0	Yeah, all right.
0:13.0	So since this is really the first time you've had any clean instruction, you're kind of a novice to this move, right?
0:19.0	Okay. All right.
0:21.6	I want you guys to watch you a second rep, and I want you to look at his knees.
0:25.6	Look at his knees. Go ahead.
0:28.6	Good. Now those of you who have been to fancy Olympic weightlifting school will recognize that knee movement,
0:52.3	won't you? what is that pull?
0:56.6	The second pull is a double knee bend or the top pull or what depends on the instructor.
1:02.4	It's a double knee bend.
1:05.0	Second pull.
1:07.0	In other words, what you saw him do was extend his knees as the bar comes off the floor,
1:15.6	rebend them and extend them again.
1:20.6	Good.
1:23.6	Now, when I went to USWF, the old United States Weightlifting Federation level one camp back
1:36.3	in 1989, they pointed all this out to us, but they also told us that this could not be taught.
1:45.0	Because it happened too fast and they didn't think it could be taught.
1:50.0	But we taught it to Daniel today.
1:54.0	Actually we started teaching it to him last night.
1:58.0	What did we tell you about the floor pool, the deadlift last night?
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