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Started by Andrew Tan, June 9, 2014 · 1 Replies · 182 Views
Few questions:
1. Is it ok to use a boxes instead, cause they dont have parallel bars at my gym
2. Are we suppose to land on the middle part of our upper arm (like the video), or do we land on our forearm, like most calisthenics/bar guys do?
3. What is our legs doing? would it be forward in front of us the whole time, keeping a hollow body, or can we bend our leg back?
1) This is kind of awkward, usually you pull from the grip on the bar, but if you can pull them off then you should be fine.
2) Upper arm. You can pause for a moment here to kill the bounce if you like. I've seen some people add forearm as an interim position while they build up the transition between bent arm and upper arm support.
3) Hollow body is preferable because it's harder to kick to get up to your bent arm support, but if you're struggling with lack of clearance I don't see a problem.