Grip width?

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Unread postby pvu-hooligan » Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:16 pm

VaultMarq26 wrote:When I was learning to bend the pole I had a much wider grip. I gradually moved my bottom hand up throughout the years.....it does seem so wierd when you are running with a smalller grip, but I feel that it has givin me much more control at teh top of my vault


does it really feel like it gives u more control at the top? hmm...ill try it out. but im pretty comfortable.

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Unread postby master » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:01 am

ACvault wrote:what do you mean by shoulder width? how do i determine that?

If you were to hang from a bar by both hands, so that your feet were as low as you could make them by adjusting the distance between your hands, the resulting distance is "shoulder width".

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Unread postby VaultMarq26 » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:07 am

pvu-hooligan wrote:
VaultMarq26 wrote:When I was learning to bend the pole I had a much wider grip. I gradually moved my bottom hand up throughout the years.....it does seem so wierd when you are running with a smalller grip, but I feel that it has givin me much more control at teh top of my vault


does it really feel like it gives u more control at the top? hmm...ill try it out. but im pretty comfortable.


I should be more specific about that...I am able to get tighter to my pole and controll where I want my body to go better.
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