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[Supertraining] If it ain't broke don't fix it? carruthersjam Tue Jun 23 12:01:14 2009

Please view the below video clip.  Zoe Smith is a 14-year-old weightlifter, has 
broken almost 100 records to become Britain's strongest girl.  Note the "flaws" 
in execution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIBVZJBDVys&feature=channel_page

Zoe is able to perform this movement "efficiently" and painlessly.  The snatch 
performance has similar "flaws".  The body's attempts to enhance stability and 
mobility to suit that given individual at any given moment.

Ken Jakalski noted:
Of course, we want to offer skills corrections when we believe kids have 
deviated from a prescribed model, but are these deviations necessarily 'flaws 
in execution,' or, as Mel often remarked, "simply the means by which those 
athletes need to translate the skill of the activity" based upon unique 
asymmetries, attachment points, and neurological hard-wiring" that we haven't 
even identified"?"

I'm intrigued to find out how members would tackle such a case?  If assessments 
were to be carried out what would they involve - please cite relevant 
references to support your statements.

Jamie Carruthers
Wakefield, UK