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Block power snatch (knee height)

Off knee-height blocks and caught high. The second pull and the finish, with nothing before them and nothing after.

Off knee-height blocks, caught above parallel.

Playing at half speed, so the turnover is visible.

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How heavy

75–82% of your squat snatch — see it in kilos. That is a band, not a prescription: where in it you work depends on the day. It is a conventional coaching band rather than anything measured here — treat it as where to start on a drill you have never done, then let the bar tell you the rest.

It trains finishing the pull, getting under it.

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More from power snatches

The lift caught above parallel, from the hang, the blocks or a fixed stance. With no squat to rescue a short pull, the finish has to be complete every time — and it is lighter, so there are more reps to get it right in.