Snatch Clinic this Saturday is going to start at 12:30pm.
We are going to be breaking down the snatch into its individual components and doing drills to work on timing and power transfer. People of all skill levels are welcome. Shoot me an email to register: Machine at crossfit.ca
Videos from the last clean and jerk clinic is here:
http://www.kellyfrankson.com/2008/09/video-from-the-latest-clinic/
“You cant hire people to do your pushups for you” Jim Rohn
Ok Here we go…….Crossfit, nutrition and motivational guru Skip Chase will be in the house on Thursday evening. This guy is awesome! You will want to put down the jelly doughnut after he is done. 
The festivities will kick off at 7:15pm
We will talk about nutrition and lifestyle choices and give each of you a “FOOD PRESCRIPTION”
The actual scanning will happen over three days beginning Thursday afternoon. There is a sign up sheet on the wall near the front door (the scans take between 20-30 minutes).
Cost: $200 +gst
The competition works like this: The person who losses the greatest percentage of percentage body fat wins the “Flab Challenge”. The person who gains the most lean body mass as a percentage of their lean body mass wins the “gainer” award.
Top 3 flab losers win the following Prizes
1st = $500
2nd =$350
3rd = $200
Top gainer wins $250
7pm and 8pm Classes are cancelled.
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly” Robert F Kennedy
It’s important to understand that the thumb is itself wrapped around the bar inside the fingers and not simply pinned perpendicularly to the bar. This arrangement takes advantage of the greater strength of the thumb relative to the fingers—with the thumb wrapped over the fingers as it would be in a conventional grip, it will typically reach only the index finger and have a weak purchase on it. By wrapping the thumb around the bar directly, we create a powerful hook on the bar, which can be reinforced by the grip of both the index and middle fingers, which serve more to support the hook of the thumb than to grip the bar directly. With two fingers over the thumb rather than only a weak section of the thumb over one finger, we also create far more friction to secure the grip. In short, the hook grip optimizes the anatomy of the hands for this application.
Particularly in the snatch, the grip will be reliant almost exclusively on the thumb and first and second fingers. Because the wide hand placement of the lift results in the angle of the hand attachment to the bar being such that the origins of the two shortest fingers are the farthest from the bar, the third and fourth fingers will typically have little purchase. This being the case, the integrity of the grip of the first and second fingers in combination with the thumb is critical. In order to ensure this integrity, the athlete needs to use the fingers to actively pull the thumb around the bar rather than simply pressing it against the bar. This hook of the thumb under the bar with the fingers’ reinforcing it is what provides the necessary grip power, and this should be the focus of the athlete’s gripping effort.