Pulling with the arms
The bar feels heavy the whole way and never seems to float. Your biceps are tired after a snatch session, which they should not be.
The cue
Long arms until the hips finish — the elbows are the last thing to move, not the first.
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.
Snatch pull
The pull without the catch, so you can load it past what you can currently get under.
Muscle snatch
No re-bend, no dip, just pull it all the way up and turn it over. Light, and it will still humble you.
Tall snatch
Up on the toes, bar at the hip, then pull yourself under it and catch it where it meets you. Pure turnover speed with the legs taken away.
No-hook squat snatch
The whole lift with the thumb outside the fingers. Without a hook the arms cannot grip and rip, so they stay long and loose — or the bar tells you.
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.
- You are slow under the bar. The pull is fine; the turnover is not. The session for it → Read by the power snatch to snatch 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
Elbow angle before the finish. Allowed: 165° or straighter until the hips finish. The tightest your elbows got between lift-off and the finish of the pull, in degrees. Straighter 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 — whether the arms stayed long — an elbow or a wrist was not visible through 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 →