Some pretty nice strenght work

welcome to club mats.

this guy is amazing.

ahahah Erik my friend from italy, one of the most strongest people i know. one arm pullup, full planche, planche ofìn rings, cross and much more, the maltese and the maltese pree to planche are with assisted loop bands..

but as he admitted some weeks ago he has a impressive lack of mobility and zero legs strength..

due to his passed not correct progression he got a bad injury that will never be solved, his right rhomboid is gone so that he have to do front lever with very large grip, supraspinatus inflammation that limit some movements etc

he is very very very strong...and one of the few people in SW/calisthenic who prefers quality to quantity...

Alex could you please give more details about the errors Erik did in his training? I think it would be very useful.

Another thing I would like to ask you is given that you train at least sometimes with Morandi have you found

significant differences between the approach used by the italian coaches and the one used by Coach Sommer?

Thanks.

I said nothing about the mobillity work His shoulders need som work.

zero mobility over shoulders and for legs (his hips are locked), lack of preparations for connective tissue over shoulders and elbows (he suffered about brachialis injury),

for the rest he has a accentuated hyperlordosis but he never worked to balance it.

for the rest is difficult compared italian coach with coach Sommer. i've trained with morandi that is a performer and not a coach. the people who approach gymnastic as a sport usually are young so for example the problem of mobility is very little. the consequence is that Matteo dosen't know all the mobility drills as coach Sommer, but simply because he didn't need of them when he was young.

on the other side the progression for some skills are very similar. an example is the work for the handstand talking about strength and bodyline or for example L-sit.

 i met a russian coach who is working with the new generation of italian national guys. some approaches with the levers are particular but no as deep as what coach is proposing. 

alex87 said:

zero mobility over shoulders and for legs (his hips are locked), lack of preparations for connective tissue over shoulders and elbows (he suffered about brachialis injury),

for the rest he has a accentuated hyperlordosis but he never worked to balance it.

 

for the rest is difficult compared italian coach with coach Sommer. i've trained with morandi that is a performer and not a coach. the people who approach gymnastic as a sport usually are young so for example the problem of mobility is very little. the consequence is that Matteo dosen't know all the mobility drills as coach Sommer, but simply because he didn't need of them when he was young.

on the other side the progression for some skills are very similar. an example is the work for the handstand talking about strength and bodyline or for example L-sit.

 

 i met a russian coach who is working with the new generation of italian national guys. some approaches with the levers are particular but no as deep as what coach is proposing. 

That's why coach Sommer is so great because the Foundation/H1 series are suited incredibly well for anyone, stiff weak zombie adults included. I have seen many ex-gymnast personal trainers who teach some gymnastic work... and most of their advice is nearly worthless for adults without previous gymnastic background. Basically they just show a few progressions without proper preparation & mobility drills outside the skill/s somehow imaging all people just suddenly learn the proper execution. But of course there are good ones as well.

Erik/Carucyn sort of reminds me of Ashita/Vassili.

Check out this guy: