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that's actually a pretty common way to clean a thick axle. you see it alot in strongman. it's hard to grip the big bars to pull them off the ground with a normal double overhand and they are too fat to use the hook grip. also they are too fat to just roll your wrists over at the top of the clean. it works alot better for big strongmen types that have a large belly to rest the axle on. also you are supposed to lean back at the knees more and almost incline press the axle up, like the old olympic lifters did on their press. or the other way is to double underhand it from the belly to the shoulders by basically rolling it up to the shoulders, sometimes even using the foreamrs or elbows to get it to the shoulders. it's hard for a skinny woman to do it right as they have no belly to rest it on and they have no bodyweight to use for momentum. if you ever use a really heavy sandbag it's the same. you have to get it to your belly and then sort of roll it up to shoulders before you press it. stones work similar to get then to your shoulders. you have to break the clean into two motions. people also do the same basic thing often times when flipping tires, bringing it up to waist or belly and then turning hands over and pushing the rest of the way up.