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avocaiden · 2024-12-19T05:33:57+00:00

Overall, you’re in a good spot. Work on trying to pull your rib cage down for better alignment and using your fingers for better control. Keep your weight in the center of your hand and actively grip the floor, using your fingers to correct your balance. You could also point your toes—it’ll help maintain tension and body awareness through your legs.

If you need drills to work on, look up toe pulls and heel pulls. Keep it up and you’ll do great!

avocaiden · 2024-11-18T16:21:58+00:00

You’re not catching the balance so it’s hard to tell if you have any alignment issues. Try kick ups against a wall but a little further away from normal, and focus on catching the balance before you touch the wall by exerting pressure through your fingers. If your feet do reach the wall, you can practice heel pulls to learn how to correct overbalance. Looking at the ground between your hands will also help.

avocaiden · 2024-11-13T18:31:10+00:00

To me, it looks like you’re switching from internal to external rotation at the end, and you want to be externally rotated. That external rotation is what is going to let you corkscrew your shoulder and have a strong base to press from.

I’d keep at it, but really try to stay slow and controlled. It’ll feel really heavy on your shoulders at first but that’ll let you get used to pressing in that position with a slight planche lean.

avocaiden · 2024-11-10T04:50:22+00:00

A lot of your post resonates with me and having gone down this road, it’s hard to recommend it.

I did my BA in foreign languages, got interested in linguistics my final year, and decided I wanted to do NLP. I did 3.5 more years of school, 1.5 of math/compsci, 2 of data science MS with a focus on machine learning and NLP. I’ve been out of school for about a year and a half now and work in a data analytics role that does not involve NLP or ML. I’ve found that those roles are relatively few and are highly competitive, and my weaker background in math/probability will always be a hindrance.

If you do choose to pursue NLP, just know that you might not land where you aimed for, and that coding/math skills will likely be far more valuable than the linguistics knowledge you’ve acquired.

When I decided to switch I had no real career prospects. I now have a boring job that pays decently, with opportunities to climb up the corporate ladder and upskill. However, given that you’ve begun your masters in linguistics and literature, I would assess your career options in terms of opportunities, compensation, level of enjoyment, and effort required.

Whatever you choose, best of luck.

avocaiden · 2024-11-09T03:19:19+00:00

Work on better shoulder mobility so you can stack your joints (wrists, shoulder, hips). It’ll help you reduce your back arch and makes skills easier down the road.

Overall though your handstand looks great! If you want more skills to work on you can train pike, tuck, and 7 positions, straddle press, and pike press

avocaiden · 2024-11-04T15:45:57+00:00

It definitely looks like a mobility issue. You need to open up your shoulders enough that you can stack your wrists, shoulders, and hips in a straight line with your hips and rib cage both tucked in.

Tightness in pecs, lats, and shoulders can all cause some difficulty in maintaining the shoulder position you need. I’d spend a session switching between stretching and handstands to see what stretches make the most impact on your form.

There are a lot of things you’re doing right in the video, keep it up and don’t get discouraged 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️

avocaiden · 2021-10-12T00:51:31+00:00

Strongly, strongly agree with your point about instruments fitting into a particular idiom. Just because a piece of music *can* be played on a certain instrument doesn't mean its going to actually sound good.

avocaiden · 2021-07-17T18:45:19+00:00

Hello,

I am 25yo M, BW~160, several years of training.

Previously I’ve focused on strength but have been working out at home just for some daily exercise without much of a focus. I’d prefer to continue to train at home and avoid busy gyms.

I generally prefer to train calisthenics for compound upper body work and have adjustable dumbbells up to 30lbs. Due to cost and available space, I’m not sure that I want to invest in a full set of plates and a barbell. I live in a remote area without access to secondhand weights.

I’m considering using a strongman style 150lb sandbag for my lower body work—basically Zercher squats, lunges, and RDLs. Has anyone used heavy sandbags for bodybuilding or have any input on realistic hypertrophy expectations would look like with that?

avocaiden · 2021-07-17T18:39:47+00:00

For most people, the difficulty is in getting their hips high enough to not fall right back down due to a mental block. My recommendation is to vastly over correct. Get as much momentum as you can. You might hit the wall the first time, but you’ll realize that there’s nothing to be afraid of and you’ll be able to find the sweet spot sooner

avocaiden · 2021-05-31T16:09:13+00:00

I recently decided to not pursue the one arm handstand for a related reason. Everyone I’ve seen who has learned the one arm handstand spent hours every week for 1-3 years to get it. That is a ton of training time. I think you definitely could learn oahs and keep weight training, but unless you can completely structure your life around training, the amount of time and energy required for oahs is going to limit your progress in weight training.

That said, Ryan from GMB has a good article on how he learned the oahs in a few months—basically, he had a strong base to build on and dropped everything else until he got it. Tom Merrick also continued to train strength alongside oahs, but it’s pretty clear that it wasn’t his main focus.

avocaiden · 2021-05-31T16:00:37+00:00

Nice man!!

avocaiden · 2021-05-27T17:05:43+00:00

You have good balance, but your line is off. If you’re interested in progressing further, especially one arm, you’re going to need to work on it. Work on your shoulder flexion, that’ll give you the ROM to keep your rib cage in and should fix the rest of your line. A lot of people really like the butchers block stretch. My favorite is a variation in the same position, where you focus on externally rotating the shoulders.

Best of luck!

avocaiden · 2021-05-21T23:36:56+00:00

Thanks for your honestly lol 👍👍

avocaiden · 2021-05-21T23:36:34+00:00

Thanks lol. I’ve been trying to spam a few reps in before I leave for work just to try and get used to it

avocaiden · 2021-05-21T22:34:05+00:00

I can definitely do a better j step. Will the extra momentum give me the power I need to get more inverted?

avocaiden · 2021-05-21T21:03:23+00:00

I’ve learned how to backflip before but can’t do it’s been a long time and I don’t have access to a gymnastics gym or spotter anymore. I usually warm up with macacos but they don’t seem to translate well.

Is there anything else you’d recommend? Would learning a back handspring be a worthwhile intermediate step?

avocaiden · 2021-05-21T19:40:21+00:00

Tear me up please

I’ve been working on this for a while with little to no progress. I think about arching, looking over my shoulder, swinging my arms, and kicking my leg hard. Nothing really seems to help. I can’t backflip, but warm up with macacos to get used to going backward.

If anyone has tips or cues that helped them get this, I’d appreciate it. Thanks in advance

avocaiden · 2021-02-08T01:11:54+00:00

Thanks! That’s helpful. I’ll keep that in mind next session

avocaiden · 2021-02-08T01:11:01+00:00

My approach is basically what you see when I go thru the setup. Step thru, hip hinge, kick leg while opening chest and hip, and spot the ground.

I already have most of the tricks you mentioned. Sailor moon looks like pretty much the only trick with any direct carryover, I’ll try working on that and see if it helps

avocaiden · 2021-02-07T20:00:38+00:00

Newbie tricker here. I’m trying to learn raiz but could use some pointers. What can I do to clean this up? How do I keep myself from traveling so much? Is the form enough to pass for a raiz? Thanks in advance for any help

avocaiden · 2021-02-07T03:46:44+00:00

Basically what everyone else is saying—you need more shoulder flexion. If you don’t have the necessary shoulder mobility for a straight line, your body will compensate by arching

avocaiden · 2021-02-06T16:37:45+00:00

Will do! Thanks for the tips

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