The course was awesome and I really learned a lot. Based on my experience with Olympic lifting courses, in general, I don’t feel that courses are a good place for beginners to start.
My recommendation would be to lift with an experienced lifter (you really need a 1 on 1 mentor for this stuff) to learn the basic lifts and after that to go to a course to learn to teach/coach the lifts.
The course was very well organized and gave cues for perfecting lifts (that are already passable). It also gave some good ideas on how to train Olympic lifting for competition and how to get stronger or correct your lifts.
Tom Stoltz(Level 4 Trainer & Assistant Fitness Manager, GoodLife Fitness Mt. Pleasant and Davisville)