An explosive clean pull that finishes with a high elbow yank.
Finish the hip drive first, then the high pull, keep elbows above the bar.
The clean high pull takes the drive of a clean, quads pushing and hips and glutes snapping open, and finishes with an aggressive elbows-high pull instead of a catch, the shoulders dragging the bar up the torso. Removing the catch lets you attack the pull without worrying about rack mobility or turnover. It is a staple for building the bar speed that makes heavier cleans possible.
Roughly chest height with elbows above the bar, but height is a result, not a goal. Full hip extension comes first, then the elbows drive up. If you cut the hip finish short to lift the bar higher, you have it backwards.
Around your clean weight or slightly above, as long as the bar still moves fast and your elbows still finish above it. When it turns into a slow upright row, strip weight.
The finish. A clean pull ends at full extension with a shrug, while the high pull keeps going, dragging the bar up with high, flared elbows. The high pull adds more upper body work to the same leg and hip drive.
