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Is that a snatch?

That's what this guy at the gym asked me.  I replied, "It's technically a power snatch, but yeah."  I like that guy, he's a little bulky, works out in a wife-beater (small), preaches everything he thinks he knows, and always leaves his weights wherever they are when he's finished.  But that's neither here nor there.

So what's the difference between a snatch and a power snatch?  Well, with a snatch (full), the bar is received overhead and in a full squat (thighs parallel to the ground or lower) whereas a power snatch, the bar is received overhead but in a quarter or half squat.  The same is true with a clean vs. power clean; the word power indicates the bar is received a bit higher up.