Closing in on the Inch hand to hand pass

by adam on November 28, 2011

I do not know if anyone has ever thrown the Inch hand to hand. I doubt anyone under 280 lbs has done it, or could do it. Maybe Andrew Durniat. What I do know is I will do it very very soon.

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Kyle November 29, 2011 at 11:45 am

Adam,

Good stuff! I have been working the bridge more and more lately. I noticed that your pace is significantly faster than mine, a nice variable to introduce. I recently suceeded in doing a stand to bridge (step 9 I think) but I still have a long way to go before I own it. Thanks

adam November 30, 2011 at 3:02 am

I have some ideas on how to reach the stand to stand bridge which I believe will be faster than the suggested course in CC. The short on my experiment is wall walking maybe too nonspecific compared to using boxes of various heights

Darryl Lardizabal December 2, 2011 at 2:06 am

I don’t like the wall walking either. I like the boxes idea better, loaded mM work (for me), and some side/side, forward/back transitions too.

Anton December 2, 2011 at 9:04 pm

If you don’t have boxes, you can still use the wall if you do “touch and go”. It gives you an infinite number of progressions that way.

Adam. I admire your shoulder girdle flexibility on bridges. I can barely do step 2 in CC.

adam December 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm

Anton

Don’t get me wrong, the wall walking is still a fine drill…I just believe using boxes will get me there faster. I have boxes in a variety of heights so it will be fairly easy to compare results.

I believe the straight bridge is the worst movement in that book, that and the leg tuck thing from the ground (I think the #1 step for the HKR?) both have some pretty big problems inherent to them. The knee tuck bugs a lot of peoples hips, the straight bridge is a very nonspecific flexibility problem.

The straight bridge (step #2) is actually almost impossible for me, due to the combination wrist restrictions from 10 years of grip and the weird balancing. I believe people would do better to skip it, and work on the bridge press off of a bench/high box combined with the floor hip bridge.

Dustin Williams November 29, 2011 at 5:31 pm

You sick bastard.
I think your training videos have inspired me to build almost every piece of custom equipment I own!
Loadable Inch Dumbell coming right up!

adam November 30, 2011 at 3:03 am

Dustin, email Ryan Pitts for the dimensions of the globe bells he makes. The Atomic Athlete one I have is nice, but the Strongergrip one is better. The green one in the gym is currently filled with lead to 220, which is my grand goal for hand strength.

Dustin Williams November 30, 2011 at 7:19 pm

Thanks, I am using a bit different design, but it will suffice.
Where did you get your lead??
Thanks
Dustin

adam November 30, 2011 at 11:12 pm

It was delivered to me fully fulled (melted filled, not shot) so I do not know the details.

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