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I suppose it depends on your hip level. At my height my grip is right next to the plates but my hips aren't much, if any, lower than a conventional deadlift.
I get nearly all hams/glutes. Back is fried too but that could be from DL + rows + pull ups.

Yep, that's the way I started doing them too. I've since been told to do them with a similar hip position to the conventional DL. Have found I can move more weight that way.
From what I understand if you're doing explosive snatch movements you would want the hips to be lower like you describe.

Anthony Mychal- www.anthonymychal.com

I'm using one of his programs and have been able to get feedback on a few different issues over the last couple of months. This feedback was aimed at someone else but was still relevant to me:

"Lower hips at the start would only be recommended if you're doing more of a violent snatch kind of exercise, like a true Oly weightlifter. Pulling heavy snatch deads will always have higher hips, that's just the nature getting good leverage for the lift."

19/06/2014
Weight- 90.4
Total Cals- 2,614

22/06/2014
B3W
Week 8- Session 30
Weight- 94.7
Total Cals- 2,960

Warm up

Front Squat- 1x5@90
bar x 5, 40 x 5, 60 x 5, 70 x 5, 90 x 5 (equal PR)

OHP- 3x5@47.5
bar x 5, 40 x 5, 47.5 x 5, 5, 5

Unilateral Floor Press- 3x10@22.5
22.5 x 10, 10, 10

Really happy with this session. FS felt good. Have to ensure I get my width right and these feel so much better.
Finally got 5 across 3 sets for OHP. Rep 5 on the 2nd and 3rd sets was pretty ugly though so I'll go again at 47.5 next week before increasing. It's more a matter of technique here for me I feel though. Didn't clean the weight so I could get myself set properly which helped a huge amount.
Floor press was actually pretty easy after struggling for a while on 20kg. I've had a few upper body wins this week so I'm pretty stoked.

Deja vu...

I have a conundrum. Two actually.

1. I'm becoming a gym rat and haven't done any real athletic activity since last October  and am turning into one of those guys who trains for a sport without actually playing said sport. I had fully intended to return to Hapkido. Was massively into it a few years back and close to my 2nd Dan. Work and family got in the way back then and it looks to be doing the same thing now. I went back for a few classes but it requires a lot more time and commitment than playing 40mins of ball. So that leads me to thinking about coming out of retirement to play ball again. That and being back on this site again. I haven't watched so many dunking vids since I was a 15 year old MJ wannabe. If I can find a team that I don't have to manage at the same time and arrange players/finances and deal with "individual snowflakes" who each want the world then no doubt I would enjoy it a lot more. Well, that and staying injury free.

2.  Contingent on the above point, if I am to play again I will need to get my shit together and get fit. Proper fit this time. One of my theories as to why I jarred my knee multiple times last year was down to fatigue. I just wasn't fit to be playing 20 mins let alone 40 mins of ball like I was. Will have to really focus on recovery as well to ensure that my knees stay healthy too. Depending on where I end up playing I will have 1-3 months to get some sort of fitness base. The other part of this point is that I will need to shed a couple of kgs of fat. I have been doing a recomp and even though I've gotten a little loose with the cals of late I haven't really noticed any ill effects. I'll be doing a cut over the next 6-8 weeks and hope I don't lose much muscle. I'm 92 as of this morning and would ideally play at 88-89 or so given my current size. So with the new plan I'll be eating +10-20% on training days (2600-2700) and -20% on rest days (1900). 1,900 is going to suck but what can you do. I'll hit if for a month and take it from there.
I actually envisage the first 1-2 coming off super quick as it generally does with me.

26/06/2014
B3W
Week 9- Session 32
Weight- 92.0
Total Cals- 2,544

Full Warm Up

Tuck Front Lever-
20s, 10s, 14s

Squats-
bar x 5, 60 x 5, 75x 5, 90 x 5, 112.5 x 5

Incline Bench-
bar x 5, 40 x 5, 60 x 3, 72.5 x 5  , 3, 3

Ring Dips- +2.5kg
8, 4, 4

Squats felt great. Had a V before I trained which helped on the energy side and I'm also experimenting with psyching myself up for some sets. I normally do it pretty controlled but figure if I can get some extra juice from the mental side of things I'll do it. I've been watching some Frank Yang lately and although I won't go to his extremes it's certainly an interesting side of things.
Actually surprised I got 5 on the first set of bench. Felt pretty solid.
Dips were meh.

Food for today:

Lunch-
1.5 cups white rice
Tuna
4 eggs scrambled

Dinner-
2.5 cups white rice
Chicken breast
Asian style salad

Snack-
Protein pudding (3 scoop protein and cacao powder)
2 x banana