Wobbly overhead
The bar drifts forward in the bottom, or you fight it for a second before standing. Heavy singles get lost in front.
The cue
Armpits forward and bar behind your ears — put your head through the window.
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.
Overhead squat
The ceiling on your snatch, sitting in plain sight. You cannot catch what you cannot hold.
Sots press
Press it out from the bottom of a squat. Deeply unglamorous, extremely effective, do it with an empty bar first.
Snatch balance
Bar on the back, dip, drive, and ride it into the bottom. The fastest way to stop being frightened of the hole.
Paused overhead squat
Three seconds spent sitting in the bottom. If the bar drifts forward while you are down there, the set is over and the weight was too heavy.
Overhead hold in the squat
Get into the bottom with the bar locked out and stay there. A long, quiet argument with the position you catch in.
What it usually sits behind
- Your ceiling is overhead. The bar is not the problem — holding it is. The session for it → Read by the overhead squat 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
Bar wander in the catch. Allowed: up to 0.12 torso lengths of drift overhead. How far your wrists moved front to back between lockout and standing, in torso lengths. Less 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 still the bar was overhead — the wrists were not visible through 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 →