Just had a brain fart and am having trouble remembering which is which. If someone could enlighten me it would be appreciated.
Which grip (reverse or forward) is being used when I do cleans and hang cleans with both palms “over” the bar??
Oh, I was thinking of curls when I saw the title.
I don’t know if this will help… but regular curls would be a suppinated (if I’m spelling it right) grip and reverse curls would be a pronated grip.
It sounds like you are describing a pronated grip.
There is a place for both types of grip when doing training to hit the muscle groups from different angles or at least it feels that way 
reverse grip - when your fingernails are facing you, e.g, reverse grip bench press
forward grip - the standard grip with your knuckles faing you; can also be accompanied by the “death” AKA thumbless grip when the thumbs is NOT wrapped around the bar (dangerous but exciting to watch)
neutral grip - like when you do pullups with a v-bar or rope handle attachment and your hands are facing each other
mixed grip - used by some lifters on deadlifts; one hand facing you (reverse) and the other facing away (forward)
Hope that helped.
[quote]OKLAHOMA STATE wrote:
Which grip (reverse or forward) is being used when I do cleans and hang cleans with both palms “over” the bar??[/quote]
If I am understanding your question here, the answer would be forward.
Christopher
Mea culpa - that would then indeed be the “forward” grip… doing those reverse grip (hee hee) wouldn’t work (that well)