How does Baraki grip the bar?

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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I thought hard after reading the stickies on this subforum. My quesiton is compared to SS’s thumbless grip, baraki tends to hold the bar with thumbs over. In either grip

  1. where shoulder the bar be? I tend to put it thumbless towards the mid or even closer to the palm. Reading a popular post on squat weight being on the back I feel like thumblass closer to the base of my palm

  2. and what I’m REALLY wondering about is ist there any internal or external rotation of the hands? I can’t NOT get my wrists to bend if I do use my thumbed grip.

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  1. Wherever is secure. Doesn’t matter.

  2. Who cares if your wrists bend?

If the bar is securely in place, doesn’t move throughout the rep/set, and the grip isn’t painful to maintain, there’s no problem.

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