Big Sky, Montana: Clean Event

The CrossFit Games -- (games.crossfit.com)
Top athletes throw down in Big Sky, Mont., at the 2013 CrossFit Tour event. Dan Bailey, Scott Panchik, Matt Chan, Alessandra Pichelli, Michelle Kinney and Gretchen Kittelberger go for a max clean in the first of three Saturday evening events.

[@navsquid32]

Michelle needed to stop at around 185. Her back looked like an angry cat. Why she kept increasing the weight is beyond me.

[@yell0fello]

that's crossfit for ya

[@garethbarry2638]

+Matt Williams Peer pressure.

[@MKTF]

I know it's fun to bash Crossfitters for technique, but Michelle's form is sloppy. Not good enough to bring to a competition. I'm sure she can walk on her hands like no ones business, but clean&jerk and snatch need work.

[@Jawnwickkk]

Yeah, her thoracic extending actually scared me! I thought she was going to die! LOL

[@fjgkf6785]

+MKTF yeah you are right while ı was watching ı gettıng angry due to her shity technque

[@coasty12]

+Fjgkf if you get angry over that........you have problems

[@fjgkf6785]

Justin Angove no she have problem loots of technique problem.And i was pissed of due to her movement there are lots of elite athlete she have to improve herself

[@kennethhart3831]

Fjgkf yo this is from almost 6years ago. She's better now : )

[@JustinKhoe]

Gosh... so much thorastic rounding with michelle... painful to watch!

[@thesnotrag1]

jesus christ Michelle, work on high pulls, shrugs, and fully extending

[@tjcogger1974]

Seriously

[@ivancastro2287]

YOU GET A PR, YOU GET PR, EVERY BODY GETS A PR!!

[@BreachFitPsycho]

WHERE THE FUCK IS COACH MIKE WHEN YOU NEED HIM!?!?!

[@B1bLioPhil3]

What's going on with Dan? His technique is TERRIBLE! Get under the bar Dan you are better than that!

[@Jawnwickkk]

He is trying those power cleans and it looks terrible! LOL

[@davescott8859]

Anyone that says shit about Crossfit needs to try this movement before even saying a word. Haven't done this movement since college, and dam it's a brutal strength movement that's a bitch. I thought I was pretty strong, but this free weight movement checked my ass, but I'm checking out soon. Big weight and nice work to you all.

[@SpanjaPrime]

uhhh it's an olympic movement first and foremost. I think anything that gets you off your ass and being active is awesome. What I don't like is seeing people do oly lifts with shit form that could cause injury. 2 out of the 3 girls were horrendous. Both of them had the bar way too far out in front. Goodnight thoracic spine. The guys weren't so bad except for the one dude who started off doing power.

[@TheSejonger]

Dan Bailey is strong as shit, not many people could pull that weight with that bad of form!

[@TrevPwnzNubs]

Form is on the athlete, not the company. Olympic lifters don't always have perfect form when working with max weight either.

[@JakubPietras]

Why is music on crossfit events always so fucking terrible..

[@dean18x]

Michelle has ZERO thoracic strength...those cleans looked horror-awful

[@btdean02]

Watch any Olympic weightlifting meet and pay attention to the misses. You'll see the same errors in form. That's why they were missed. Saying this is bad for CrossFit is like saying elite weightlifters having misses is bad for weightlifting.

[@churde]

i cringed a bit when i saw the little kids and heard the 6 foot 7 lyrics

[@VuqarIE]

I love crossfit. finally found crossfit in my city

[@MrDosulli33]

People complaining about form should be required to link a video of themselves doing better. Pyrros Dimas has better form than you therefore you should never attempt any oly lifts. How dare you try!

[@DeanSheremet]

no michelle!

[@ChriiSchee]

Some of them show really bad form...

[@jaysonmuzuruk6604]

I love how people are bashing on them when they're body weight to the weight they're lifting is amazing and you could simply not do any of their workouts for time. Big difference between a pro NFL player and a crossfitter.

[@btdean02]

Remember, these athletes were going for PR's. Perfect form is obviously important and kept in mind, but little mistakes here and there at 105% is to be expected.

[@quiksilva86]

Go watch vids on California Strength's channel. These guys are training OLY and most of them make contact with their thighs or hips.

[@James-fh1un]

quiksilva86 why would anyone watch that shit ? And please stop saying "oly" its embarrassing

[@mattcarmine2923]

I love watching these Big Sky events, so entertaining

[@65bucksmedia]

Panchik looked way better at this event than he did at the games. Good job Scott!!!

[@Webah13]

Matt Chan clutch af

[@martinvocke3768]

Their back angle is all wrong, or a few of them at least. It looks like its taking away from their second pull. I also agree, the blonde just needs to do some RDL'S or some GHD work for a few weeks and she'll improve. And Dan......if you can pull 330 you should be getting under it. Your butterflying the shit out of it man.

[@anacolls4673]

+Martin Vocke FINALLY! SOME ACTUAL CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM

[@kicosmaria]

Dan Bailey looks so much smaller here!

[@sryancargil]

8:10 the reason why I crossfit. best feeling ever.

[@tjcogger1974]

You don't have to CrossFit to do some cleans.

[@spencergsmith]

@@tjcogger1974 no, but CrossFit does have an amazing community and good coaching to help you improve your movement.

[@tjcogger1974]

@@spencergsmith True

[@windlord1111]

yes, I've been waiting for these loads! Last year, only some were loaded on YT, while an exterior site had the full complement. Anybody know if that's the case again?

[@zjohnson25]

I think a video like this is bad for CrossFit. Half of these cleans are just scary to watch. I love CrossFit and everything, but I hate how casually the olympic lifts are taken, like there's no respect for the movement. Matt Chan's looks great and Panchik looks pretty good too.

[@MonaLisa2495]

yikes, pachick and chann weren't too bad but kinney needs helps, even in the snatch vid she kept jumping forward...and those power cleans splitting the legs, cmon...I would like this sport to be represented well and some of this stuff doesn't help

[@seansulllivan]

Yeah Kittleberger doesn't know how to drop under a bar, Kinney looked like she was going to blow her back out, and Bailey looked like he was going to destroy his wrists. Even Panchick was receiving the bar quite high .

[@skaz783]

I dont know who that girl is at 8:35 but her cleans are hurting my back shoulders and hips every time she catches those bars. It looks so dangerous.

[@josuegordillo6247]

Michelle, WTF!!!

[@subjidealist7804]

"he jumped on a plane last night" - translation: we couldn't get anyone on the A list to show up.

[@colinz1954]

you obviously don't know who Matt Chan is then. smh

[@jersey282]

Bailey is going to hurt himself bad one day. That form is so ugly. Chan was the only one I thought looked pretty clean.

[@KFCRAMPAGE]

Same with the girl in the pink, she's throwing the weight up but having trouble getting under it. Just like me :D lol

[@shookadance]

Dan Bailey... Get a lifting coach and learn how to clean dude. You are too powerful not to learn how to squat em.

[@brinho109]

Gretchen could get so much more weight if she squat cleaned

[@eagleseatfudge]

Think you mean cleaned.

[@brinho109]

yes, cleaned, mistype.

[@rolltide6273]

that's what I was thinking. it really irritated me. that was completely unnesessary with kids around

[@cristiangately2478]

I don't understand it, I have more muscles than the girls and I don't lift half the weight

[@kelbo]

Gretchen would be putting up much much more weight if she knew how to drop under a bar.

[@drtouchinsky]

God bless you.

[@alanpdag]

Matt could clean more if he would fully extend/stay on his heels for the pull.

[@misterairsoft101]

What you want them to play some fucking Justin Bieber or Katy Parry?

[@WarOfRoses25]

Does anyone know the names of the songs played in the background ?

[@Z2357111319]

Well guys, out there, is a woman warming up with your max...

[@jersey282]

lol..did that shit look great to you? A person who has never lifted a weight in there life would cringe watching Bailey nearly break his wrist and back doing this shit....sigh...it's worse to act like people are doing shit perfectly...

[@maxrockatansky3896]

I was always told from most accepting of what a rep is; there's crossfit good, weightlifting good and olympic lifting good...all of this was besides one c&j, surprise surprise crossfit good smh

[@Crabbapplekid]

Crossfit isnt for me, but I always tell ppl that whats not good for me might be perfect for them and so in that regard I do not bash crossfit. But as a competitive olympic weightlifter I can say that if you want to learn olympic weightlifting DO NOT go to a crossfit box! In the Clean the way you get the bar resting on your shelf is by extending at the top of the lift and when you do that it creates the illusion of the bounce that ppl think is happening. But everyone of the crossfiters

[@matwinner9708]

Just get Clarence Kennedy in there, the human crane

[@tjcogger1974]

Clarence doesn't even warm up with these weights. Lol

[@MarkEWallace]

Gretchen Kittelberger; veteran CF Games athlete

[@whiteb011]

Perfect means no flaws what so ever... That means they have superman form.. Not even the greatest oly lifters have perfect form. Yes it's really close but it can always improve.

[@misterairsoft101]

It didn't look great, but it was certainly better than 90% of people i see doing olympic lifting.

[@ysphor]

Especially that Michelle, her movements are terrible.. Thought her spine going to snap soon. lol

[@JohnKonye]

Pichelli Has an AMAZING clean... Wish I could have competed in this :)

[@XanderPetrov]

Great event! But someone needs to pick more appropriate music (@05:00) with bunch of kiddos around.

[@Kuba5445]

dont play this lil vayne sh1t plz

[@azureavocado5195]

Michelle...plz stop. Relearn and rebuild. She scares me

[@coltpwrs7]

I hate when people go for PR's sometimes because the form is horrible.

[@R4F10]

Where can I find this grey shorts with red rogue text on them? Anyone know where?

[@rhythmnsmoke]

245 was my last PR. Man, just looking at these numbers...crazy

[@misterairsoft101]

I thought Scott's veins were going to pop out of his neck at the beginning

[@kreed1004]

was the performance of the athletes affected by the terrible music at all?

[@Fullkaze]

awesome !! i want the name's MUSIC PLEASEEEE this song give me so much motivation !!

[@jonathanstenger9179]

As you can see, crossfitters are NOT Olympic weightlifters 💀

[@mitchell4818]

meanwhile in china, weightlifters laughing their asses off

[@howtomountaingoat]

Meanwhile in russia..

[@andisandbach]

YOU CAN HAVE A PR, YOU CAN HAVE A PR, EVERYBODY GETS A PR

[@tracteon]

music is awful ..

[@drtouchinsky]

Great music to play with kids in the crowd. Stay classy HQ.

[@emembaldo]

rehband

[@jacobbrown8442]

Lil Wayne with little kids around hahah

[@SwanSee]

Castro looks like a short, Mexican James Franco.

[@njlopezfa6514]

I wonder if there are weight classes...

[@ZunaidSiddique]

i swear is miranda at every single crossfit event

[@kubas4028]

Agree. Only Mat was cleaning ehmm.. clean ? :)

[@popcorn32145]

i KNEW some1 was guna comment about that lol

[@misterairsoft101]

Look a youtube expert on form appeared

[@mrmemozepeda]

Whats the name of those knee wraps?

[@matthewnoble1980]

Ahhhhhhhhh I see what you did there ¦-)

[@Mwin3689]

Finally been waiting for big sky event

[@casiosx003]

Dan's shirt is awesome. BROFLEX!

[@Vaporswift]

dont end up like Miley....SQUAT!!

[@skaz783]

I find her very attractive too.

[@Crabbapplekid]

Thats ridiculous to say that no one has perfect form on max weight because elite Olympic lifters do. and the reason they do is because they focus on and perfect technique; unlike crossfitters who just want to throw up the most weight they can for points.

[@isaiahharvi]

Crabbapplekid no such thing as perfect form...

[@casiosx003]

so much motivation for todays session!

[@HYPERLINER117]

FINNALLLYYY ITS UPLOADED!!!

[@geoassain]

where's matts stache?

[@DrSeus85]

Baileys form is horrible!

[@Ephajim]

Thank you for making my day,

[@hossein11111]

matt chan...the beast :D

[@tiffanyguerrero8902]

Thank you nativ164 :)

[@Mwin3689]

And yes she is

[@tiffanyguerrero8902]

What is a PR?

[@kevinvuong6563]

ALL DEM PRS

[@kelbo]

rehband

[@Jordaaaan95]

4:32 god DAMN

[@Artikulit]

GLANCY!

[@luisggh]

snap city !!

[@MrBadger2736]

Hbinn