Modifying the teaching method for the high bar squat

[AndrewLewis]

If you get a client in who you know is not going to be able to properly squat due to shoulder issues, but find they'll be able to high bar squat, do you modify the teaching method at all?

This is a problem I've run into where I'll teach the hip drive (no bar) part of the teaching method, and then find they have to high bar squat due to their shoulders. It seems like going through the first part of the teaching method will give the client the wrong impression of the high bar squat. Do you do it anyway and then just coach around that when they get the bar on their back? Perhaps the first part of the teaching method could be modified or omitted to account for this.

Thank you for your time, Rip.

[Mark Rippetoe]

I'm not going to devise a teaching method for the high-bar squat. There are plenty of other resources for that, and it doesn't apply to enough people that it's really necessary.