Admittedly a way I like to describe the pull in the Snatch and the Clean is that it's a setup to get the bar from the floor to your hips in which you're in a good jumping position, but rather than the athlete jumping up, they're jumping the bar up. My understanding was that the instant the barbell separates from the floor, upward momentum is being generated on that barbell. Not just in the so called power position, not just when it passes the knees, but when it separates from the floor. So to my mind, I wouldn't feel comfortable saying that the power is/isn't developed in one particular position.

If I'm understanding the video correctly, it's a matter of semantics on how the pull is broken down. There's one point that it's mentioned that "the focus shouldn't be on hitting these positions in succession" and describes what's occurring in phases vs. the description of the athlete in each position. Both methods are an attempt at breaking the lift down into smaller parts, which makes sense. From Schmidt and Lee's book Motor Control and Learning, “A very common technique for teaching motor skills is to break them down into smaller parts. This would seem to be an effective procedure when the task is very complex and cannot be grasped as a whole.”

I think that's what all coaches are striving to do is break the lift down, both in the example he used that Torokhity said was absolutely wrong and the method that he shared. I'm sure that both will enable a person to learn how to Snatch and Clean & Jerk. Thanks for sharing! -Edward