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MOVEMENT TIP: The Hang Power Snatch

This week CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates the Hang Power Snatch for us. By this stage you may be getting a little confused as the length of the movement name grows longer and longer! But if you break it down, it's a fairly simple combination of the last 3 variations of the Snatch that we covered:
1. Hang - starting from above the ground (usually just above the knee)
2. Power - don't have to drop into a full squat position
3. Snatch

Points Of Performance



  • Hip-width stance

  • Hands wide enough that the bar rests in crease of hips when legs and hips are extended

  • Hook grip on the bar

  • Shoulders over or slightly in front of the bar at set-up

  • Lumbar curve maintained

  • Hips and shoulders rise at the same rate

  • Then hips extrend rapidly

  • Heels down until hips and legs extend

  • Shoulders shrug, followed by a pull under with the arms

  • Bar is received in a partial overhead squat

  • Complete at full hip, knee and arm extension with the bar over the middle of both feet