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| Olympic Lift Seminar Information
The following will be covered during the seminar:
The seminar will include periods of formal instruction alternating with small group hands-on instruction. All instruction will be provided by Coach Chris Wilkes, Cody Wilkes, Caine Wilkes, and Coard Wilkes.
About Chris Wilkes Coard Wilkes Coard plans on making it to the Junior World’s for Team USA and competing in Europe this summer. Coard’s Best Lifts Cody Wilkes
He has been competing and teaching in Olympic Weightlifting for since 1999. Cody’s greatest achievement thus far in lifting has been bronze medalist at the 2007 American Open. He is also a USWA LWC referee. Cody’s Best Lifts |
Caine Wilkes
Caine has been lifting for over ten years now. He is currently a 105+kg Lifter and Placed 2nd in the 2008 Nationals and 3rd at the 2007 American Open. Canie has also competed in international meets such as Criollo Cup in Italy.
Caine’s Best Lifts
Snatch 160 kg (352 lbs)
Clean and Jerk 197 kg (433 lbs)
What people had to say about our other seminars with Coach Chris Wilkes:
I have known Coach Chris Wilkes for several years in the sport of Olympic style weightlifting. Chris has great knowledge of fundamentals, core development and technique progressions in the teaching of the snatch, clean, the jerk and all the fundamental exercises needed to become a proficient Olympic style weightlifter. coach Wilkes has produced several national and international weightlifters and truly is an inspiration to our sport. I highly recommend anyone who has the chance be coached and or trained by coach Chris Wilkes.
-Mike Burgener of Mike’s Gym
“I thought it was great. I took a tremendous amount of information and technique away from it, which was helped by the fact that I had never done snatches before and have only been exposed to C&Js a few times during WODs at the affiliate. For that reason, I was very interested in getting some instruction from people like you and your sons (since I hadn’t had a chance to develop any bad habits) and having the chance to ask questions from experts (our trainers are L1 certified, but have not to my knowledge been exposed to any professional Oly lifting instruction). I thought your mix of lecture and practical application was right on, and the way you handled progressions was just right. It was extremely helpful, I thought, to have your sons available to work with the small groups. No doubt much of the benefit of the instruction would have been lost had we had to rely on a single instructor to make the rounds among 15 students this weekend. It was a job well done, and I’m hopeful that someday we might be able to bring you up to Quantico to offer some of the same instruction to a core group of our more dedicated CrossFitters. Vince and I appreciated you and your sons making yourselves available to us on this holiday weekend. Thanks and Semper Fidelis!”
-Rich of CrossFit Quantico
Coach Wilkes and sons,
I really enjoyed the seminar and learned a lot. You guys are patient, knowledgeable, and definitely a class act. I liked the set-up–small groups with immediate feedback. By comparison, the Level I cert had so many in a group that by the time a coach got around, a participant may have done 20 or more reps. If form was bad, it was ingrained by that time…I left there a lot better than I arrived. Thanks again. Hope to see y’all again.
Keith Overstreet
