Definately off-hand by your side, not on your thigh. Treat the DB snatch like any other Oly type lift–don’t think of how much weight you are lifting, think of how fast/correct you are lifting it. Use these parameters to determine how much weight you should use and you will be on the right track.
I watched the above vid, and no doubt he is moving a metric shit-ton of weight, but not all that correctly. Sort of a version of a DB power snatch, not really a full DB snatch. It was taken completely out of context so I don’t know where in his training he was, what his background is or what he was doing it for (if anything other than making a vid). Part of the beauty of oly lifting is exactness of technique; jsut b/c somebody can move a ton of weight doesn’t necessarily make it cool/right/a good idea, it just means their moving a lot of weight. Think athletics!
Don’t get me wrong, I played the vid many times and thought it was pretty sweet!
This is Brad Cardoza one-arm snatching a 150 lbs DB for 5 reps. Damn.[/quote]
Not too bad!!! Coming from a 170 lb’er who, at present time, does it with 120 lb. DB’s. Hopefully by the time I am that size I will be able to do a weight that doesn’t come in a DB