Just got home from teaching and assisting at the one-day Introduction to the Monkey Gym workshop; held at Andrew Cattermole's Crossfit Sydney gym in Alexandria. Great set-up out there. I had to constantly refrain from jumping up onto the many, many chin-up bars and high rings strung up throughout the warehouse.
I really loved Olivia's new and improved 'bodyline' gymnastics segment of the workshop. Some of the methods in this segment require some novel (in that we don't do these movements with our bodies regularly) but very useful body-weight exercises. The wrist prep sequence before 'baby' (modified) handstands was especially cool, too. I will definitely be teaching these variants in my S&F (Monkey Gym) courses this semester - as they require no equipment at all!
One thing that Kit emphasized, which a lot of us know intuitively or via practice, is, when we are trying to coax an inactive neural pathway back into awareness, we want to use the smallest possible amount of force/resistance that generates the desired sensation (so we don't fire adjacent muscles too much, thus add more stimuli to confuse fine detail focus; or, force the previously dominant disadvantageous pattern to partially re-activate at the same time).
Great work, too, by all who attended.
The Crossfit Sydney gym looks amaaazing! :)
ReplyDeleteYeah; it's like a giant playground for adults!
ReplyDeleteSounds awesome! Good luck with your business Dave. The blog is a good read.
ReplyDeleteThanks Quentin!
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