High-hang power snatch
From the hip crease, caught high. Nothing to lift with but the finish, so a short one has nowhere to hide.
From the hip crease, finished and caught above parallel.
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How heavy
65–75% 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.
Faults this drill fixes
Cutting the finish
You are diving under before the pull is done. Misses are forward and the bar never gets high enough to be easy.
Finish tall, then move — you cannot pull under a bar you have not sent up.
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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.
- Hang power snatch, above the knee · 70–80%
- Hang power snatch, below the knee · 70–78%
- Block power snatch (knee height) · 75–82%
- No-foot power snatch · 65–75%