Spinning WOB
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Topic: Spinning WOB
Posted By: Pop Tartan
Subject: Spinning WOB
Date Posted: 6/13/10 at 8:00am
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With all these ladies putting up impressive numbers in the WOB (Adriane, Lacy... freaking awesome!!!), I need to get cracking and learn the spin technique. I've had a few practices so far and I've moved from 'in danger of hurting self and others' to 'ineffectual spinning'. It doesn't feel like my orbit is high enough and the position I'm landing in for my pull doesn't feel the least bit powerful. Hints, tips, magic creams? Thanks! |
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Posted By: Duncan McCallum
Date Posted: 6/13/10 at 8:10am
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Kate! Once, long ago, I journeyed to the Temple of Baab with the same question. Mike handed me a 28 pound weight and had me practice with that. Then he gave me a 42. No 56 for this kid. What gives? I found the lighter weight helped me get a feel for where my feet needed to land in order to accelerate the weight. Learning how to counter the weight through a much higher orbit is key, and granted it was a 28 and then a 42 and not that big a deal (for a fat kid) it really made me appreciate that fine line between balanced control and total bedlam. Lots of videos on YouTube about it as well. Maybe give it a try with a modified LWFD and get a feel for the technique? I am sure you already thought of that...but my time and advice are free. And worth every penny! Keep us posted! ------------- The man in the arena. |
Posted By: feefiefofeather
Date Posted: 6/13/10 at 6:09pm
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Duncan's right about the lighter weight. When I first started doing it, I used the 14 and exaggerated the throw, trying to shoot the weight as high into the air as possible, just to get the feel for it. (Granted, I don't put up the numbers that Adriane or Lacy do, but it definitely helped the technique!!) Also one-armed dumbbell snatches are good in general for this (more for the standing technique though), and another athlete has also suggested to me a one-armed side shrug from the floor, with a very heavy dumbbell. Basically you're mimicking the motion of the pull from the bottom of the throw, and it helps you to be explosive when you plant. Hope that helps! ------------- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond all reason the opinions of others. |
Posted By: Pop Tartan
Date Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:09am
| Sweet, thank you! I'll give this a try! |
Posted By: JWC III
Date Posted: 6/14/10 at 3:59am
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I totally agree on using a lighter weight. Also, cast that
weight almost straight up and rotate under it. Then, block your hips to the bar and that forces you to go straight up with it. ------------- Thom Van Vleck |
Posted By: plockton
Date Posted: 6/14/10 at 7:52am
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dinosaurs adapted, feathers are proof; still, there is something proper about the standing technique therefore, i refuse to adapt; even a trilobite has his pride |
Posted By: Pop Tartan
Date Posted: 6/14/10 at 4:22pm
| With my results so far with the spin, I'd love to agree. They seem like two different events. But topping out with a 15' standing is not going to keep me running with the big dogs! |
Posted By: WALLY.OLECIK
Date Posted: 6/14/10 at 9:14pm
A trilobite, being a three cell creature, had no hands or feet so it probably didn't stand or spin. lt, presumably, had no pride either!!  ------------- 16lb-hammer(at)sshga.org "Try not. Do or do not. There is no 'try!'" Yoda |
plockton wrote:Posted By: Wayne Hill
Date Posted: 6/15/10 at 12:31am
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Well, it had enough pride not to spin...
------------- "We may be small, but we're slow." - MIT Rugby |