Off the Floor
Your Weight Drifts Forward During the Pull
The fault
Being pulled onto the toes somewhere between the floor and the hip.
Why it happens
Once the weight is forward, the bar has to come back to you at the top, which means it loops. Everything downstream gets worse, and it all started before the bar reached the knee.
The fix
High pull with the heels down through the entire movement, then immediately do a full snatch. The high pull teaches the balance, the snatch cashes it in while the feeling is fresh.
About this fix
Originally published as "Stay Back in Your Pull" on 14 March 2016, part of The Lifting Fix, a free weekly weightlifting technique series Danny Lehr ran from June 2015 to December 2016. Every episode is free here and always will be. For the full structured course, see the professionally filmed program.

