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Started by Jerh Shyang Cheng, April 30, 2018 · 7 Replies · 3,555 Views
Dear all,
This might be irrelevant to gymnastic related content. Please be extremely careful when you are using a portal door way pull up bar. This picture is what it has gotten me to when I was doing Korean dip. I had no time to respond and smashed my face directly on the ground!
Ouch! Sorry to hear about your accident, Jerh. I wish you a speedy recovery.
And thanks for sharing this warning to the community. We are sure others will take caution before using a doorway pull up bar.
Please read this.
Ouch. Sorry to hear this. Also for the Korean dip specifically, even doing on a regular straight bar, I was warned it's likely to lose grip and crash face down. The closer the bar is to the ground, the less time you have to react. I suggest a crash mat regardless if you are not familiar with korean dip.
On 5/2/2018 at 8:34 PM, Jin Liu said:Ouch. Sorry to hear this. Also for the Korean dip specifically, even doing on a regular straight bar, I was warned it's likely to lose grip and crash face down. The closer the bar is to the ground, the less time you have to react. I suggest a crash mat regardless if you are not familiar with korean dip.
Well I guess I learnt my lesson the hard way. I could have saved my face if it were another variation of dip, but since my hands were behind my hand I was caught off guard and nothing could be done.
Ouch, Sorry to hear about your accident as well. I hope you’ll get better soon and get your tooth fixed!
On 5/2/2018 at 6:04 PM, Jin Liu said:Ouch. Sorry to hear this. Also for the Korean dip specifically, even doing on a regular straight bar, I was warned it's likely to lose grip and crash face down. The closer the bar is to the ground, the less time you have to react. I suggest a crash mat regardless if you are not familiar with korean dip.
Point well made. I'll look up options for this.
On 5/5/2018 at 1:06 PM, Jerh Shyang Cheng said:Well I guess I learnt my lesson the hard way. I could have saved my face if it were another variation of dip, but since my hands were behind my hand I was caught off guard and nothing could be done.
So how did you move further on this? Different bar(s) and Crash mat?
On 5/1/2018 at 4:08 AM, Nick Murray said:Please read this.
Will look this up. Thanks.
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