New Snatch World Record

Behdad Salimi snatches 214kg with his 3rd attempt at the World Weightlifting Championship 2011, held in Paris last week.  The previous record was 213kg held by Hossein Rezazadeh, also of Iran.  Superb.



Tim Egerton of Sprint Strong, had pointed to this video and noted:

Interestingly, a new technique seems to be adopted here whereby he performed a 'pre-lift' before his actual attempt at performing the Snatch. This is legal so long as the bar does not break the line of the knees. I expect this 'pre-lift' will have provided a slight potentiation effect.

Is anyone aware of this technique having been adopted previously? I wonder if it will become commonplace now.