Catching high
You receive it standing and then squat it, or you power snatch everything and only squat when it is truly heavy.
The cue
Meet the bar in the bottom — pull yourself down to it rather than waiting for it to come to you.
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 balance
Bar on the back, dip, drive, and ride it into the bottom. The fastest way to stop being frightened of the hole.
Drop snatch
Snatch balance with no dip and no drive. Just fall under it and lock. Speed, not load.
Overhead squat
The ceiling on your snatch, sitting in plain sight. You cannot catch what you cannot hold.
Tall squat snatch
The same drill ridden all the way to the bottom. Nothing sends the bar up but your speed getting under it, which is a humbling thing to learn.
Power snatch + overhead squat
Finish tall, catch it high, then squat it to prove you could have caught it low.
What it usually sits behind
- You are catching high. There are free kilos in the bottom of the squat. The session for it → Read by the power snatch to snatch ratio.
Whether that 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
Hips against the knees in the catch. Allowed: hips level with the knees or below them. Hip height minus knee height in the bottom of the catch, in torso lengths. Below zero is below parallel; lower 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 deep you received it — the hip or the knee was not visible in the catch — 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 →