Slow under the bar
There is a pause at the top of the pull. The bar hangs, then you get under it, and by then it is falling.
The cue
Elbows around and punch — the fastest part of the lift is after the bar stops going 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.
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.
Drop snatch
Snatch balance with no dip and no drive. Just fall under it and lock. Speed, not load.
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.
High-hang squat snatch
From the hip crease and nowhere else. The shortest pull there is, so the finish has to be immediate and the catch has to be low.
What it usually sits behind
- 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.
- 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.
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
Time from the finish to lockout. Allowed: up to 0.35s from the finish of the pull to lockout. The time from the finish of the pull to the first frame with your arms locked overhead, in seconds. Shorter is better. Withheld on a recording too slow to time it.
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 fast the turnover was — the recording did not run fast enough to time it — 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 →