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Glad you liked it mate
It will make him stronger/more explosive in the "lift" portion of the shot. You'll never be able to simulate a shot on a person with weights, unless they start making people shaped weights. Brad didn't say he was reinventing the double leg drill. That lift is ASSISTANCE.
1) Find a person your size or larger.
Anyway what do you guys think of the lift?
For the people who are nitpicking that it doesn't 'replicate' a shoot exactly, don't look at it like that then. Looks like a hell of a movement for explosiveness though!
Total wrestling novice here, but:
What good does the initial step in/shoot really do for you?
I think it's just a chance to fuck yourself up - you said it was a risky movement, but high risk with low reward doesn't make sense.
If you're really trying to ensure that you Zercher the weight and lift it quickly and explosively, just start out below the bar and explode into it. That will take the "that's a bad shoot" argument out of the whole thing and make it a bit safer.
Folks do that with other Zercher lifts and have good results.
With the Y set up (or two single bands) the shoot would make more sense because you could set the bands up to where you increased the resistance with the step, then further increased it with the raise.
BTW - no bar needed with the bands, just loop them around your elbows.
I am aware that it is assistance. I was saying that in my opinion it probably does not make a lot of sense as an assistance move, as takedowns are better drilled on people and explosiveness is better trained with the appropriate weight/strongman exercises.
Could you please name and/or perhaps provide links to video demonstrations of the "appropriate weight/strongman exercises" that are addressing the lack of explosiveness that your claiming is found in this lift.