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Spot the Flaw

Spotting the Flaw Is Part of Coaching

  • 2 CEU

  • Online

How fast can you spot a movement fault mid-workout? Spotting technique issues in weightlifting, gymnastics, and monostructural movements is a vital coaching skill. This course trains your eye to catch faults more quickly.

Seeing the Fault Is Half the Battle

CrossFit movements happen fast. To coach them well, you need to spot technique faults quickly, understand what caused them, and then cue them quickly and clearly. This course helps you build both skills. These abilities build on each other until they feel automatic.

  • Spot the Issue
    Spot the Issue

    Train your eye to catch movement mistakes as they happen, even in fast lifts and dynamic movements.

  • Know the Usual Suspects
    Know the Usual Suspects

    Learn the typical errors for the common movements you see most often.

  • Make the Correction
    Make the Correction

    Match each fault to the correction that resolves it.

Why This Skill Is Worth Building

A sharp eye changes how you see every rep, including your own.

It Covers the Movements That Matter

Gymnastics, weightlifting, and monostructural work all get attention.

It Moves at the Speed of Training

The focus is catching faults in the flow of a workout, not a freeze-frame analysis.

It Improves Your Own Training Too

The eye you build for others turns inward on your own movement.

It Connects Seeing to Doing

Spotting a flaw is only useful when paired with the correction that helps resolve it.

Before You Enroll

Format: The course is $60, fully online, self-paced, and worth 2 CEUs.

Course language: This course is available in English.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Start whenever you are ready.

Your pace: Work across multiple sittings and resume where you left off, though it is best to finish a module before exiting, since partial modules are not saved.

Certificate: Upon successful completion, participants receive a certificate of completion. This course does not confer a CrossFit trainer credential or other certification necessary to offer CrossFit® brand training.

Refunds: CrossFit does not offer refunds or transfers.

Build the Eye That Catches the Flaw.

Spot the flaw, understand the cause, and know the corrections across gymnastics, weightlifting, and monostructural movements. It is one of the most useful skills in training and entirely learnable.
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