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Inversion Drills

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:27 pm
by BigStick Club
So, when you're practicing inverting, is it best to practice on a rope or a suspended straight pole?

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 2:32 am
by bvpv07
We do it with a suspended straight pole (I don't really know what shape it would be in otherwise ;) ). However, our coach also has us linked up to a harness to help us pull through and extend off of the top (lol, just did this today for the first time in a while), so I guess that it would probably be whatever is most comfortable and safest for you.

I like the pole because your arms are in a position exactly like when you invert on a vault. I think that our pole is just a piece of a broken pole with a plug on the bottom, and then a rope is strung through it.

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:21 pm
by Antihero43
i just grip it and rip it, practice right there while falling into the pit. Have a good knowledgeable coach there with you, and you cant really go wrong. Oh i also do work with just rocking back on monkey bars.

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:05 pm
by VaulteRachello
my coach made a pretty cool training device. it is a pulley where you strap your feet in on one end of the rope, and hold onlt a piece of pole on the other end of the rope. it makes it so you can get inverted and push off the pole and everything without falling, its pretty cool. looks like some kind of turture device though:) lots of straps and ropes :P

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:25 pm
by Antihero43
ummmm that device sounds like the pole vault pulley that you can buy at almost any track and field store. We made one at our school because we didnt want to spend 200.00 to have one sent to us.

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:31 pm
by VaulteRachello
Antihero43 wrote:ummmm that device sounds like the pole vault pulley that you can buy at almost any track and field store.


cool, didnt know that...

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:17 am
by Tamaqua Vaulter
VaulteRachello wrote:
Antihero43 wrote:ummmm that device sounds like the pole vault pulley that you can buy at almost any track and field store.


cool, didnt know that...



blah i rather buy a pole....

...am trying to make one of them......they're easy to make too

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:28 pm
by Redneck
any pics?

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:33 am
by indestructo
I wouldn't mind knowing what materials you used to build this pulley thing. A few of our athletes could use it!

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:45 am
by souleman
Go here http://www.bubbapv.com/Pages/drill.htm click on the 2005 version. If you can do that, you're inverted. Later..........Mike