I recently read an article about starting position on the snatch and clean and jerk, and it mentioned the bar making contact with the hips. One of the main issues I had with my technique in the snatch was that I was hitting the bar with my hips, and looping it out in front of me.
If ONLY I had read this statement: "Don't hit the bar with your hips, hit your hips with the bar." That would have made it so much clearer. Oh well.
