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over, under, or around?
clearly, the faces of some have been cut off or hidden behind bars to protect the innocent....
How do you grab the bar for pull-ups? What do you love or hate about our pull-up bars? How about the others that you've used?
Congratulations to Doug and Shawna who got hitched last night!!
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I'm a monkey gripper on the RCF bars. When I wrap the thumb, it feels like I'm holding on by my fingertips. On the bars by the front door, I can cheat and wrap my thumb around the uprights.
My brother-in-law recently put up a bar at his house that is a 1" pipe set in wood supports, and it spins...serious suckage, even with a mixed grip, because any kind of kip just spins you out from underneath the bar.
Posted by: Cheryl | Sunday, November 08, 2009 at 08:16 AM
I would say just as you do a bar. When I went to the gymnasics cert Tucker also emphasized that the thumb must go around the bar , it dangerous not to have it that way
Posted by: Carlos | Sunday, November 08, 2009 at 02:27 PM
I do not wrap the thumb - going to try it now tho as it has been pointed out.
I tend to cup the bar (never mix the grip) right where we all tear our callouses. Lately I've been almost palming the bar - it seems to help me control my forward swing at the bottom of the kip and I rebound faster up toward the bar.
Tape/No tape/Weird grippy spray/No weird grippy spray - that stuff hasn't made a difference to me.
Posted by: Matt J | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 05:14 PM