Great video of Tommy Suggs teaching the split snatch over at Starting Strength's YouTube page.
Suggs is a legend and a boa fide weightlifter. As summed up by this article at 70s Big:
Suggs was one of the most dominant Olympic weightlifters in the sixties, a member of the original York Barbell Club, editor for Strength and Health, the head strength coach for the NFL’s Houston Oilers, an outstanding Olympic weightlifting coach, and an all around nice guy. Bill Starr paraphrased someone in an old article about Suggs saying, “I never met a man who didn’t like Tommy Suggs.”
Note the low receiving position he coaches in this video, which requires a high degree of mobility. Starting Strength has also featured some other split snatch videos in which Mark Rippetoe takes on the teaching role, such as this one. I'll note that it seems like Rippetoe teaches a higher receiving position - the "power" version of the split snatch, if you will - which places fewer demands on hip and ankle mobility.
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