Purpose & Background. Back and lower limb injuries are prevalent in athletes who perform novel weight-lifting techniques with inappropriate kinematics. Visual-auditory instructions and knowledge of performance (KP) verbal instructions are utilised to help novices execute novel skills. Effectiveness of these methods on executing appropriate front-squat lifting kinematics is limited. Aim: to investigate the effects of visual-auditory instructions compared to KP verbal instructions on front-squat kinematics at sticking point in novice lifters, with improvement determined by proximity to the kinematics of an expert lifter at sticking point when performing optimal front-squat lift. Methods. Twenty-four novices were randomised into two groups and performed front-squat lift. The novices in visual-auditory group (n = 12, age = 24.33 ± 2.93 years) received videoaudio instructions, verbal group (n = 12, Age= 22.66 ± 2.34 years) received KP verbal instructions. MATLAB software measured kinematic lumbar angles, Kinovea software measured hip,