CrossFit Athletic Group

Across athletes in all of the sessions, there seems to be a common uncomfortable-ness in the bottom, or receiving position of the snatch. Turns out that real life Olympic lifters have experienced this problem too, and thus the snatch balance was born. The snatch balance's purpose is to hit the recieving postion of a snatch, but involves more skill and speed than an overhead squat. Here's one of the first times the Champions Club saw snatch balances.

Fast forward to the Summer of 2014 and we're executing a little better:

Seeing as this was on the main site a couple days ago, the reigning Athlete of the Week might have a new PR to put on the board and a video to replace the one above...