Started by jwalker497, April 30, 2014 · 9 Replies · 3,605 Views
Can someone please explain or point me to a video that explains how this transition happens. I cant even wrap my mind around it. Maintaining a false grip in any position other than a vertical hang seems so ridiculously hard. Im wondering how a proper support to cross happens, when do they catch the false grip.
Im also playing around with back rolls and maintaining the false grip through that is tricky - are there any drills that I can do to strengthen the false grip while Inverted, etc?
Rings one provides all the necessary step and conditioning exercises to increase the false grip hold for future strength elements.
This transition is extremely easy; once you are adequately prepared to begin focused iron cross training.
The reason it is so mind boggling at the moment is that you are not yet at that point.
Yours in Fitness,
Coach Sommer
There's no "catching" of the false grip. You just grip the rings tight enough that your hands don't rotate as you lower down. By the time you've lowered into a cross, you're in a false grip.
To strengthen your false grip, spend time holding a false grip in various positions.
Joshua Slocum said:There's no "catching" of the false grip. You just grip the rings tight enough that your hands don't rotate as you lower down. By the time you've lowered into a cross, you're in a false grip.
To strengthen your false grip, spend time holding a false grip in various positions.
Yep
I know im not prepared i was just wondering how it happens.
jwalker497 said:I know im not prepared i was just wondering how it happens.
Did my explanation make sense?
It did make sense - and maybe catch is not the right word. I understand a hanging flase grip but when your going from a support and the wrist is not in a false grip from there to the ending point of the cross, the wrist has to begin to support a flase grip before its in its final position and that just seems so unbelievable to me. Somewhere in the super wide RTO position the wrist is transitioning from no flase grip and support aka on top of the rings to the ending point of support
From a RTO support position without false grip into an iron cross. To get back to false grip it is just a matter of sliding the heel of your hand back over the rings.
If you have watched any ring event videos you will sometimes see the gymnasts slide back into false grip if and when needed.
mm currently i'm training for the cross, when i move from support over false grip i do not need to focus on something particular like slide the heels or other things...when you move down it comes naturally, you need to push on the wrist so ideally you can perform cross without grab the rings.