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.
The cue
Finish tall, then move — you cannot pull under a bar you have not sent up.
One cue, because one is all anyone can hold onto under a heavy snatch — and something to do rather than something to avoid, because under a heavy bar there is no time to turn a "don't" into an action.
The drills that fix it
Most useful first. The percentage is of your squat snatch, and it is a band, not a prescription.
Power snatch
Same lift, caught above parallel. Punishes a lazy finish, because there is nowhere to hide a bad one.
Snatch pull
The pull without the catch, so you can load it past what you can currently get under.
Hang snatch, above the knee
Lower to the top of the knee and go from there. No floor to build speed with, so the hips have to actually do something.
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.
Snatch high pull
A snatch pull that keeps going — elbows high and outside once the hips have finished, never before.
What it usually sits behind
- You are strong enough. The lift is leaking on the way up. The session for it → Read by the snatch to back squat ratio and the snatch to clean and jerk ratio.
- Your technique is ahead of your legs. Go and squat. The session for it → Read by the snatch to back squat ratio.
Which of those is yours is a question your numbers answer. Tell snatchlike your snatch and the lifts you already know — power snatch, overhead squat, back squat — and it names the one actually capping your squat snatch, then writes a session that fits the time you have. A lift you have not tested is left out rather than guessed. There is nothing to sign into.
Find out which of these is costing you the most →
What the camera checks for it
Hip opening at the finish. Allowed: the hips open to 168° or more. How far your hips opened at the moment they were highest, in degrees. More open is better.
That allowance is a conventional coaching margin — the room a coach would let go without saying anything — reasoned from practice, not measured here, and wide on purpose. Plenty of people sit outside it and are fine; a reading past it is the thing worth looking at next, not a diagnosis.
Anything about the bar is the path of the wrists. The detector sees hands, not a barbell, so it is close enough to coach from and not a tracked bar path.
Film it side-on, the whole lift in frame from the setup to standing it up. When the clip cannot support the measurement, the read lists it as not checked — how far the hips opened — the hip or the knee was not visible at the finish of the pull — and says nothing about it rather than guess.
Film one
Film one snatch and snatchlike checks this, and the 8 other faults, for you. The pose model runs in this browser tab and the video stays on your device — it is never uploaded. The read can be saved as a video, with the path of your wrists drawn on it, to post back into the thread you were asking in.
Film one and let the camera check it →