Backlit skin the cat

[flexagon]

Much better lit than the last attempt at capturing this; still backlit though. Grrr.
My goal is to touch my toes to the doorjamb and still make it back up and through...

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Comments

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

didn't you just accomplish your goal?

[flexagon]

no... it does kind of look like it, but so far, every time I touch I stall halfway back up and have to fall.

[nevers.livejournal.com]

very nice!! you'll be there in not time. now try the tuck through at the start (or do it as a pike-through) with straight arms :). ah, i need to keep training these even though i don't have a teacher pushing me on them anymore. i can do 2–3 full skin the cats in a row now :) but i could lose them so easily.

[nevers.livejournal.com]

you'll be there in no time, even.

[flexagon]

Arms are supposed to be straight the whole time? Jeez, that totally changes the feel of the first part (from something I can do to something I can't, in fact). Something to work on, apparently!

[nevers.livejournal.com]

well, the skin the cat doesn't start till you're in a pike under the bar, so your arms at the beginning don't matter to the cat. but a tuck-through or pike-through is a conditioning/strength feat in itself, and it requires straight arms. in my training i always connect a pike-through with a skin the cat, but it's not necessary.

i only recently got pike-throughs without a spot, and i don't think i can do a tuck-through yet (although with natalie i always start with a pike-thru, skin the cat, come back down, then attempt a tuck-thru; maybe if i did the tuck first i'd make it?).

[flexagon]

Trying to figure out how a pike-thru could possibly be easier than tucking. I suppose if you do it fast, the leg part of the move could give some momentum to help the shoulder part...

[nevers.livejournal.com]

ho, you really think momentum is allowed? ;)
i think it's because in a pike-thru your body is very compact horizontally, and that makes it easier? dunno. let me try a tuck-thru while i'm fresh sometime this week.

[figmint.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT!!!

[figmint.livejournal.com]

I also meant to say, I am STUNNED AND AMAZED! SHOCK AND AWE! That is SO cool!! I can't believe how much body control you have.

[flexagon]

Ahaha. I love the range of reactions. From stunned expletives to "umkay weakling, now let's see it with arms straight". :D

You really oughta read a ways back through nevers' journal and/or c0ntortion if you want to see body control. But on second thought, don't, or you will stop thinking I'm good and then where would my expletive-filled comments come from?

You need a pullup bar too! I can tell!

[figmint.livejournal.com]

I looked at nevers's userinfo, and saw some of her pictures, wow! I was intrigued by her comments on your blog. She can really do an incredible handstand.

You guys are inspiring me, really!