6.11.2011

I was really sore from the last workout all week, especially abs, so I just took the whole week off, foam rolled, did some mobility stuff, felt good. 

6.11.2011
Went to a clinic put on by Jianping Ma, former Chinese elite 67.5kg lifter and 3x world medalist (and 1984 olympian, where he said he was injured and got 8th). This was at a gym about a hour away, but Jianping might change gyms and coach there full time, so it would be cool to be able to go lift there under him once in a while. 

He went over the Chinese approach in detail and then a few of us did a bunch of drills for about 2 hours (!). 

Finally we snatched. I went up to 110 with no misses and then missed 120 4x. I'm pretty close. The coach said it looked good, I just needed to be faster on my catch. 

There were a few other good lifters there too. A pitcher (probably a 94) who cleaned up to 170 and power cleaned 150ish, a high school kid who power cleaned 140, a former lifter who snatched 120 without having trained in what I understood to be 1-2 years and a 77 or 85 who snatched 130 and cleaned 170. All in all a good Saturday afternoon.