Technique Plates.

Full plate. Almost no weight.

The snatch and clean and jerk are learned from the correct starting height, and the correct starting height requires a full plate diameter, which normally means at least ten kilos on the bar before you have learned anything at all. The technique plates have a 450 mm diameter at only 2.5 or 5 kg, in hollow HDPE, so the bar starts where it should while the load is still low enough to practise with. Tolerance is ±30 grams. Technique first. The kilos afterwards.