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Post by dlee on Feb 19, 2014 20:21:52 GMT -5
Hey dudes.
Quick question.
I'm training in a gymnastics facility twice a week and i have been getting into replicating/making or simulating obstacles. Using blocks/wedges to set up quat steps, body prop on 2 beams next to each other, stuff like this. The gym has a foam pit, tramps, beams, rings, bars, blocks, wedges, mats, ropes (all the good stuff). I would appreciate if anyone would share their ideas on things i could do or set up. ANY ideas would help ( i've kinda hit a brickwall about what other things i could set-up). Please please please have a think about it! Any idea would spark some inspiration.
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Post by Oti on Feb 19, 2014 20:50:23 GMT -5
Don't focus solely on replica stuff. Try to also practice being athletic in general (running, jumping, grabbing, etc.), although admittedly you can do this outside of the gym as well. I also highly recommend utilizing the rings and bars to develop your upper body strength. Pull-ups, dips, levers, crosses and things like that are your friends. There's not too much you can do for the lower body there. Good luck!
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Post by RiderLeangle on Feb 19, 2014 21:26:04 GMT -5
That's a good point by Oti, focus on conditioning just as much if not more than replicas, that way you'll be prepared for new obstacles. Replicas are good since you get used to doing the obstacles but you also need to work on the skills you need in general for the course, that worked out very well for me when I tested in Baltimore, the Circle Cross took out 25% of competitors in qualifying, more people failed on it in qualifying than any other obstacle in Baltimore both rounds combined (yes, even more than the Downhill Jump, the broadcast did not do it justice but in a way thats good because most of the fails were slow) and I just breezed through it like it was nothing. OK maybe a bad example since that's more about the technique but you get what I'm saying... the Monkey Peg is a better example of why you should work on conditioning as well as replicas
Also another problem with that idea, unless you're dealing with actual replicas, gym recreations can be inaccurate on some obstacles, if you don't believe me look at this HPA idea I had
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Post by dlee on Feb 19, 2014 22:23:35 GMT -5
Don't focus solely on replica stuff. Try to also practice being athletic in general (running, jumping, grabbing, etc.), although admittedly you can do this outside of the gym as well. I also highly recommend utilizing the rings and bars to develop your upper body strength. Pull-ups, dips, levers, crosses and things like that are your friends. There's not too much you can do for the lower body there. Good luck! ok oti u dont understand what i was asking. i know how to train. i was just looking for some ideas of replicas i could do or make at the gym. i dont solely focus on anything. i do all the things you guys already state. i have rings and bars at my house. i didnt ask u how to train. i asked for some ideas about this one aspect of my training. i know u guys are trying to help and coming from the right place. but please THINK about it first. and Rider my friend your HPA idea is exactly what im talking about. Awsome idea. Any more?  ? Stuff like that is what i was asking for. Thank you so much  totally making that one. (i realize its not accurate, im just trying tp understand the movments of it.) |
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Post by dlee on Feb 19, 2014 22:47:50 GMT -5
im gonna post my general training on here aswell coz it still shocks me how dead the training is. My training changes a tiny bit weeek to week, and im not gonna go into specifics for everything but im really inlove with movement so most training days start or end with freerunning.
Monday- rockclimbing (in the gym) or rest
Tuesday- parkour/freerunning/gymnastics (in the gym)
Wednesday- basketball
Thursday - replicas at the gym which pretty much always turns into freerunning
Friday- rockclimbing or freerunning (outside)
Saturday- will either play basketball, freerun, hike, swim (aerobic activity over 3 hours is what i aim for, but also mix explosive momvements in there)
Sunday - parkour class (outside)
i will also occasionally go to the actual lifting gym and do compound exercises or circuits if the weather really sucks but otherwise i stay as far away from weights as possible, so boring imo. and as you can see only 1 day of rest a week which sometimes gets moved around to the weekend but this is the general plan.
feel free to share your training and what u like to train.
and shout-out to anyone who goes hard!!!!!!!!!
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Post by RiderLeangle on Feb 19, 2014 23:30:49 GMT -5
No that HPA idea is pretty much the only thing like that I thought of, and honestly it's not worth the time, like that it's too easy and also it's not accurate at all (and this isn't just me saying it isn't accurate, this has been confirmed by someone who actually attempted the HPA in vegas)
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Post by dlee on Feb 19, 2014 23:48:54 GMT -5
lol well im making it tonight i was thinking mutliple blocks and placed way further away from the wedge coz yeah yours was too easy. 2 blocks and rope higer and further away and it would be sweet. and in what way is it innacurate? the principals of the wall run + jump + grab to the rope are quite the same in my eyes. or how could i replicate it more closely? |
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Post by Oti on Feb 19, 2014 23:56:14 GMT -5
I understood the question perfectly fine. You don't understand where I'm coming from. But your schedule shows that you clearly know what's up. Best of luck.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Feb 20, 2014 0:13:08 GMT -5
It was inaccurate the way I set it up, it was just running up a soft runup and just kicking off and grabbing a rope much closer instead of actually having to run on the curve and get the higher up rope, it was pretty much just step -> There you are -> Swing odd direction in the version I had tried
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Post by dlee on Feb 20, 2014 0:51:09 GMT -5
I understood the question perfectly fine. You don't understand where I'm coming from. But your schedule shows that you clearly know what's up. Best of luck. ok sorry man tell me where u were coming from then? you completely disregarded my question so i assumed you misunderstood. when someone asks you how to grow a fruit garden do u go and tell them vegetables are better. #immakingfruitsaladbro |
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Post by werewolf on Feb 20, 2014 6:30:06 GMT -5
- If you got a bunch of ropes, you can train the rope junction.
- Dyno between 2 bars to train for salmon ladder.
- Body prop between 2 walls or a wall and a block
- Trampoline to rope swing
- Trampoline to bar swing
- ...
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Post by dlee on Feb 20, 2014 16:41:20 GMT -5
- If you got a bunch of ropes, you can train the rope junction. - Dyno between 2 bars to train for salmon ladder. - Body prop between 2 walls or a wall and a block - Trampoline to rope swing - Trampoline to bar swing - ... thanks dude |
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Post by kangaroo on Mar 17, 2014 19:09:06 GMT -5
Is there a place you can simulate the spider wall trampoline between 2 walls or something to wedge yourself. From watching it seems a lot of people are not use to launching and spreading the legs and doing it with out leaning to far forward.
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? Stuff like that is what i was asking for. Thank you so much 
totally making that one. (i realize its not accurate, im just trying tp understand the movments of it.)
