If you look closely, there are red straps on his wrists. These strap the bar to the wrists, a common practice deadlifting big weights, because your back muscles are stronger than your wrist muscles, and while you can do a few more reps with your back, your hands give up. That said, even if he released his fingers, the barbell would still stay where it is (not precisely, but it wouldn’t just drop).
Also, just releasing the back muscles and falling with the barbell isn’t a good idea because it can lead to serious spine injuries. I did it once, thankfully, with very mild consequences, but a few days of pain taught me never to repeat this.
Generally, greediness in weight lifting is a bad thing, if you bit more than you can chew, there’s no good way to wiggle out of it unless you have a partner with you. And yes, if your positive phase (lifting up) looks like that, you definitely should be more humble, the weight that you absolutely can’t control on both way up and down is too much.
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u/UW_Ebay 4d ago
Damn why didn’t he just let go??? If he didn’t injure himself with that poor form he almost certainly did during the fall. Hope he’s ok.