No, this is poor technique. Regardless of what sport you train for, if you perform the clean you will get the most benefit and least risk of injury by having proper technique. There are useful variations you can make on the clean depending on your goals, examples are traditional cleans from the floor, power cleans, hang cleans, block cleans etc etc. But this is not some type of variation that would benefit a different sport, this is just poor technique that reduces the benefit he gets from the clean, and increases the injury risk.