Started by Jordi Van Gelder, February 18, 2013 · 5 Replies · 2,416 Views
Watch at 0:28. I've seen many gymnasts doing that "high" back levers and then pull to maltese, inv cross....But is this a true back lever? is this what its rated like an F in code? or should it be done from " dead hang " ? maybe its not possible to do like this.
in the code of point you can read to lower into dorsal horizontal suspension, and the back lever is under dorsal horizontal suspension.
so i think yes the movement will be a back lever. i think this is little bit high due to the next press movement to swallow
I see. Anyway, why you call it press if its a pull move? it's strange, in the code its also called press.
i think that from an analysis of the angle between hands and body is possible, with an electromiography, see the percentage of the muscles that are activated both press and pull muscles. Of course back lever is called a pull until the body stay under horizontal position, but as the back lever is high as increase the percentage of the muscles involved in press movements. So i think that the code makes some references about what you can say to a gymnast when he has to perform it. you can catch better the movement and active the muscles by imaging the skill if you hear "press down on the rings" instead of pull. is something strange i know. but i see with some people i'm following that, for pullup they can pull the bar more near the chest if they imagine to press down into the bar instead of pull yourself to the bar. so i prefer with them use the therm "press down".
Hah thats crazy, i always thought that if the shoulders are under hands level its pull and if are over hand lever its push!
AK87 said:Hah thats crazy, i always thought that if the shoulders are under hands level its pull and if are over hand lever its push!
The whole push/pull categorization doesn't really capture GST exercises very well. For example, the manna is much closer to a front lever in terms of muscles used than it is to a planche, yet the manna and planche are both "push" exercises whereas the front lever is a 'pull'. And the maltese can't even be put cleanly into one or the other, because the entire body is level with the rings.