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Member Muscle 💪🏼💪🏼
Welcome @David Leal , and my apologies for such a late entry to the community. I'm traveling for seminars, and of course this is when my laptop decides it's time not to start up. I'm happy to have you join us and interested to hear what gymnastics skills you're working on! Are you currently following one of my programs with FGA or Invictus, or maybe another program? Thank you for your patience, and I look forward to hearing from you💪🏼
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@David Leal thank you for your enrollment in the Invictus Gymnastics Essentials! As of right now I have no plans of coming to Texas, but I'm always available for booking seminars! I'm currently in Florida and finishing up the weekend here and then heading back to Sydney, but if you guys ever want me to make the trip out to Texas I would definitely be interested! I saw your video and I will get to it right now 🙂
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@Kendra Felice if you know of a gym that would want to host a seminar, tell me the name and I'm happy to reach out :)
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@David Leal this went really well! I like that you added the second back swing as it provided a little bit of torso lift and power to drive into the forward swing. Normally I don't recommend doing two swings, but that's if you jump from the ground to the rings. That would be my next suggestion. If you can try jumping to the rings and then starting your swing that would be more time efficient. Below is a video link for the CB ring grab and adding the cast. This is what I would suggest for your next steps. https://youtu.be/ylrnDNOpzS8 https://youtube.com/shorts/74UXaOLklTg
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@David Leal it's really hard to tell from this angle what exactly is the cause of it. So no, I really can't help with that from this video. If you have a slow motion video from the side it's more likely I can help
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Ring swings and MU
@Travis Ewart I was little anxious to try an MU. I hadn’t done one since August (at a competition). Just had been ignoring them! Ha! Beginning half of 2025 I was really working on bringing back my skills after having baby and being postpartum. By February I got my first BMU. By March I got my first RMU. But after the comp I did in August, I just focused on workouts rather then specific gymnastics drills. I really enjoyed doing all the strict MU work today and ring swings etc. I feel like those muscles were not being worked for a while. Goal is to keep practicing these drills to get a more confident muscle up again. Today I can tell my timing was off. But hey I still got one! 🥲 Ring swings- I don’t feel as banana like (hollow) as you show in your demo video. Any tips?
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So good! I love the feedback 🙂 The very best thing you can do for the ring muscle up is to keep your legs straight. Aside from that, don't worry about anything else at this point and we will revisit when you have straight legs! We can fix things from there, but straight legs makes a huge difference in the amount of power that you produce and keep all the way through the end of the skill.
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Hi @Travis Ewart 😊 Program going well so far. Just one thing I seem to be wholly incapable of doing yet: donkey kicks. In particular, back-to-wall donkey kicks. Cannot even begin to get my feet up to the wall. I keep thinking this may be because I have such long legs, but I don’t know. I know everything is programmed for a reason, but is it ok to utterly suck at these and just keep trucking? 😂 Cheers! Kendra
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@Kendra Felice haha YES it's totally okay to not be great at these! Leaning your shoulders pass your fingertips is pretty necessary in order to have enough balanced weight above your hands. In order to do this, especially when you're going to the wall, you have to give yourself a little more space between your hands and the wall to make room for your head as it needs to lean forward as you jump into the donkey kick. You'll get it, bit don't worry about getting it right away. It's really a shoulder exercise, and by just doing it you're doing yourself a favor physically 💪🏼
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@Emily Kaffel because of your longer legs, it's really important to try to stretch your first stretch position before you pass completely beneath the bar. All of your stretch positions are on the front side of the bar, and that's not giving you enough time to swing your legs through the loading and into the air chair. If you can stretch earlier, that would definitely help!
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