"Technique"

I am so sick and tired of hearing people talk about technique.

Today, a coach at a local CrossFit gym told a friend of mine who is in town visiting that "Ian Wilson has bad technique".

Have you ever heard something so profoundly stupid that you had to sit down and contemplate your own existence? Because now, I have.

And look, this is not me saying one technique is better than another, or a certain way is better than another way. But Ian has a competition 416 Sinclair score which happens to be the best ever by a 105kg lifter in this country.

I would like to repeat my previous statement.

Ian has a competition 416 Sinclair score which happens to be the best ever by a 105kg lifter in this country.

Let me explain something, weightlifting is the sport of getting the most possible weight overhead. Doesn't matter how (as long as it's within the rules), doesn't matter how it looks, doesn't matter what you have to say about it. The person who lifts the most overhead wins. Period. End of story. There is no "best technique" award in the Olympics. Yet somehow, American "coaches" seem stuck on this idea that the lifts have to look a certain way to be right.

Weightlifting in this country is so ass backwards that people actually will discredit the best in the sport for not looking how they want it to look. And while on that note, what is good technique? Seriously someone tell me. Put 3 American coaches in a room and ask them what good technique is you're gonna have a lot of weak people yelling at each other. And sense I highly doubt anyone will be able to agree, while you are all arguing over who has an early arm bend and who's hitting the bar too hard off of their hips, I'm gonna focus on learning what I can from the best we have.

To sum it up, every time you talk shit about an elite lifters technique, American weightlifting regresses 3 years. So keep yappin' coaches. Eventually we'll all be lifting without bar body contact.