Jumping forward
Your feet travel and you finish a foot in front of where you started. The bar is always slightly out front.
The cue
Push the floor straight down — weight through the middle of the foot, not the toes.
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 deadlift
Slow, snatch grip, holding position the whole way. Builds the back that holds everything else together.
Snatch from blocks (knee height)
The second pull with the first one deleted. Heavy, honest, and it does not care how good your floor position is.
Hang snatch, below the knee
The awkward one. Teaches patience through the knee, which is where most bars start running away.
No-foot squat snatch
Start in your receiving stance and land in it, heels down the whole way. Cures the stomp, and the pause that always comes with it.
No-foot power snatch
Start in the receiving stance and land in it, caught high. Cures the jump forward and the stamp in one go.
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.
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
Foot travel. Allowed: up to 0.2 torso lengths of foot travel. How far your ankles travelled forward from lift-off to the catch, in torso lengths. Side-on only.
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 your feet travelled — without a side-on camera there is no forward to measure them against — 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 →