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1. And here’s me working all morning on your video Big Shane, just for you to post a comment like that. I’m hurt.

2. Many congrats Big Shane. The Kyle has someone to pass the muscle-up mantle onto.
   And even though he harshed your buzz I know Colm’s very proud.
   Nice one

3. Nice one Shane

4. A muscle up? Nice one!!

5. Great work Big Shane! That’s huge!

6. Blazing a trail dude! Next stop: 2.

7. Yes I got to witness the muscle up last night, a tremendous occasion and I haven’t seen someone so happy in a long long time! The lads spend a bit of time trying to teach me the kipping pull up as well, I didn’t quite get it but am a lot closer, so hopefully someday soon and then have to start greasing the groove with them as well, it’s worked amazingly well with press ups, have gone from being able to do just 2 or 3 to being able to do 15 – 20 without a break!

   By the by that video is awesome Will!

8. Pixie, I feel your pain with kipping pullups. I think I’ve kind of got it these days, well my numbers have gone up from 4 to 12 in too short a time for the kip not to work!

   The best thing I got about it was from Will and Kyle who told me to push away at the top instead of just dropping down. Will described it as a bench press at the top, it still feels weird to me but the numbers are going in the right direction so it must be doing something right!

9. Hmmm, just a thought on kipping pullups. This has probably been discussed to death on the main site but I’m far too lazy to look there.

   When the motion is changed to a kip we talk about how we remove some of the force required by the arms to do the same work yes? Kipping spreads the work across the body and allows us to increase our power, all well and good.

   But as anyone with a notion of physics will know that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So as we hoof our hips up to generate momentum there is a simultaneous downward “hoof” on our arms, them being the end of the kinetic chain and all. So, our arms have to be able to withstand the force of our hips effectively pulling them down off the bar, working our grip harder than in a deadhang pullup.

   So in short, a kipping pullup reduces the workload of our arms but also increases the force required by our grip? Turning the exercise into a more grip-tastic one?

10. Few more things:

    Will-great video; you continue to be my hero.

    Big Shane–if you haven’t already, listen to Josh Everett’s interview. Restored my faith somewhat.

    All–what’s the final word on the trip North?

11. Big Shane – I love comments on the board everyday, keeps me happy so feel free to blabber away. BTW, your video is turning out to be Epic (evil grin)

    The Kyle – I can’t get cover this Saturday for the MMA, and with fights coming up, I can’t cancel classes. Unless people want to leave from the gym at 1o’clock to head up? Otherwise I’d suggest we schedule next Saturday, and more people could take the trip.

    Also, which Everett interview?

    Will – I hate to say it, but you didn’t point your toes on that L-Seat. I mean that’s just unforgivable.

12. “And he’s wearing sneakers!” (shrill)

    Considering the weather I’ve decided to bunker in today, Nancy will have to wait. Tabata kettlebell workout in my living room.

13. BTW, for home tabata this site is extremely useful (I think this is the one Dee was telling me about…).

    http://tabata.sperker.de/index.php?nav=download

    Did a mash-up of 24kg kettlebell swings + 20kg thrusters.

    Now if only I had someone to jot down my scores.

14. Colm, Ruairi – the appropriate “fuck you” will be arriving in the mail.

    Re: Kipping – Yep, there’s a brief window at the initiation of the movement where you have to hang on significantly harder than normal. How hard will be proportional to the final height of your kip, as per Mr Newton’s observations on the subject (assuming you don’t actively try to slow your upward progress).

    Shane’s quite right that this also applies when you drop into the bottom of the movement at speed, much harder on the grip than lowering yourself under control. Gets ya coming and going.

    I noticed this all over again when I started learning the butterfly, the increased cycle time makes it even harder to hang on. I wasn’t ready for this at the time, so there was some mild falling off the bar.

    Btw, you can see the same phenomenon happening in olympic lifting – people will sometimes lose their grip on the bar during the second pull if they’re not hook gripping, once again due to the sudden increase in bar speed (except now the frames of reference are reversed: stationary person and moving bar vs stationary bar and moving person). There’s probably an arguement that can be made for the synergistic effect of developing this kind of dynamic grip strength in both movement patterns simultaneously. (That’s probably not a real thing, but it sounds kind of cool)

    Come to think of it, I’d say it would have a pretty big carry-over to MMA and other situations where you’d have to keep a hold of someone who’s trying to wrench free suddenly.

    It’s not hard to think of Real World Scenarios (which, if I’m reading the internet correctly, means scenarios that 99.99% of people will never have to deal with. ever) where developing your grip in this fashion would be bloody useful too.

    Falling off stuff and having to catch yourself with a little momentum built up springs to mind. I’ve done that far too often…I guess what we’re learning is that if you’re going to be an idiot, it helps to be good at kipping.

15. Great work Big Shane! That’s huge!

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