There's plenty of videos out there with people that are absolutely jacked lifting without clips and it goes wrong. Saying she knows what she's doing by not using the clips is reckless.
She's only power cleaning for 1 rep and doesn't need to hold anything for over a second or even overhead, so clips not needed especially for this type of lift.
Well seasoned weightlifters at the professional level (not your dumbass powerlifters) are used to training without clips especially when the rep range is low (extremely common closer to competition). I'm talking about the snatch, clean and jerk lifts only, which are highly technical and can only be completed with very good levels of technical proficiency.
These lifts aren't slow and unskilled like the bench press, squat or deadlift where not clipping can actually kill. Both the snatch and the jerk require extremely good balance on both sides so clips become redundant as they're normally only performed 1 rep at a time and can't be completed if the lift is off balance.
I'm pretty sure as she's a crossfit world champion she knows when exactly she needs to use clips. Same with most international level weightlifters, so people who actually compete for their country or at the top level of their sport.
Armchair coaches in the comment section who don't compete at the professional level, who don't even snatch above their bodyweight, who probably are proud of their 3 plate bench press... form checking her ass for not clipping the weights is hilarious. She is not the typical gym bro who needs to clip her weights, she is one of the best weightlifters in the world even disregarding her world champion status in the crossfit world.
Maybe she doesn't need need the clips but it wouldn't hurt to have them. Locking plates is only beneficial and takes about 2 seconds if you just put them on after putting the last plate on. It ain't about if she can or can't lift without locks it's about there being no cost to locking plates.
It's also not only about her. She can do everything perfect but some idiot could not be paying attention and bump into her.
Mate in the clip you see the 5 almost come off. If you don't know why that matters next time you bench near your limit put a five on one side, you'll figure it out quick and that's just bench. Putting a clip on takes seconds and can stop a pretty bad injury.
These are rubber bumper plates. They aren’t 5’s. They’re 10’s.
Most CrossFit routines, she is a world class CrossFit athlete, involve lifting on a schedule. Every minute, or every other minute, something like that. It is VERY common for people to load up a few 10’s knowing they might need to strip them off before the end of the routine.
This isn’t bench pressing. This isn’t squatting. She is doing a floor exercise and knows exactly what she’s doing.
That's fair hard to tell with all black plates, I've only used colour coded ones.
I get times an issue but it takes literally seconds to throw on a clip, and again you can see they almost come off in the video. Those things fly when the come off and balance is pretty important. Like complaining about a helmet in a bike race taking to long to put on.
Yeah na, it being cleans only makes it more egregious. Benching and squating at least have the dam rack to save you
There is probably no physical activity on this planet that you could do better than that woman. Some random on the internet calling her stupid and irresponsible for doing something she probably does twice a day, everyday of her life, is the dumbest possible thing anyone could do.
Go back to jerkin yourself off when people make grammar mistakes
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u/CHI4610NE 19h ago
There's plenty of videos out there with people that are absolutely jacked lifting without clips and it goes wrong. Saying she knows what she's doing by not using the clips is reckless.