Movement Demo Library

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  • Back Leg Swing

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  • Back Lever

    • Find a hollow body position while in the inverted hang
    • Without breaking hollow allow your hips and toes to lead the descent into a horizontal hold
    • Focus on pushing hands toward your hips and keeping your shoulders back and down
    • Initiate the ascent maintaining hollow and thinking of driving heels over your head and back to the inverted hang

    Note: Check scaled versions. Tuck and One Leg Levers.

  • Back Tuck

    • Stand tall with abs and butt on
    • Initiate straight jump and make sure the arms swing past ears to give direction
    • At the apex of the jump, initiate an explosive “knees through elbows”
    • Hold the tuck position during the entire rotation
    • Stick the landing by stomping the ground in a partial squat
  • Back Uprise from Dip Swing

    • At the peak of the front swing, initiate full dip
    • Ride the swing out in the bottom of the dip
    • Start pressing out of the hole as the back swings starts assisting press out
    • Finish in a horizontal body position with elbows fully locked
    • Continue on with regular swing or get ready to link the next movement
  • Back Uprise to Handstand from Dip Swing

    • At the peak of the front swing, initiate full dip
    • Ride the swing out in the bottom of the dip
    • Start pressing out of the hole as the back swings starts assisting the press out
    • Finish in a handstand position
  • Backward Roll

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  • Backward Roll

    • Start in a support position
    • Lean back as you lift your toes up in front of you
    • Start bending the arm and addressing the false grip on the rings
    • Maintain body in a hollow body position with rings as close as possible to your chest
    • Allow your head to travel under your hips
    • When toes pass vertical kick back and up in a 45 degree angle
    • Extend the body and do a defecit push up on the rings that should send you back up to support
  • Bar Muscle Up

    • Initiate a kip by swinging feet front and back, and follow swing motion through to hips and then shoulders
    • The body should bow from global extension to global flexion
    • At the apex of the "from" portion of the swing you will spot the bar, and do the fastest pull that will get your hips to the bar
    • Followed immediately by doing the fastest sit up into a pike position
    • Allow the shoulder to travel over the bar while raising the toes up
    • Done correctly, this should lead you into a bar support
  • Bar Pull Up

    • Start in a dead hang position with shoulders hanging glued to your ears
    • Make sure your body is in the hollow body position
    • Initiate movement by pulling your shoulder blades back and down and making your neck long
    • Make sure ribs stay down, abs and butt on
    • Follow through with a pull that will direct your chest toward the bar
    • The movement hits its peak when chin passes the bar, or when chest touches the bar
    • Descend while maintaining hollow body position
    • Movement finishes when you end up in the dead hang starting position
  • Bent Arm Back Extension Roll

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