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re: frog stands/crow, messing with where knees are resting and hand placement led to big improvements for me. closer to armpits, closer to elbows, more or less inside. i don't see why there would a hard-and-fast rule about whether it's better for your hips to be higher or level with your shoulders, but it's worth playing around to find the most comfortable and sustainable spot. personally i've found that hands shoulder-width (prescribed distance is closer in) and slightly splayed out with knees fairly close to armpits leads to a crow i could hold for minutes if i wanted to. ymmv based on physiology, where you're mobile, etc.

morning

- warm up
- some light stretching and activation stuff

evening

- GMB F1 W7 D3
some progress on front lever, got two full 5s holds and one 4s. still a bit wobbly. glad i made myself do this, motivation is low atm.

didn't work out yesterday because (1) it was 115 degrees outside, 46 to you non-americans, and (2) gf left for three weeks in the UK last night and frankly working out seemed like not the best use of time. we hung out by the pool at the australian embassy instead, and what exercise i got was of this variety (that's me and gf in the foreground):



pools are fun.

what joe said. props. 

- GMB F1 W7 D2
floor kips still vexing. 

how much warming up do you do before jumps? strikes me that you are maybe shortchanging yourself by not doing enough to get loose and bouncy before you start going for ME jumps. when i was jumping my highest it was after working up a sweat doing lots of layups, i.e. submax jumps.

i have a tub of fresh hot salsa & blue corn chips ready.

i am going to destroy a large quantity of blue corn chips when i get back to the states in ~3 weeks. destroy. lay waste. annihilate. do what KD did to the rim tonight when cleveland forgot to play defense against him. massacre. conduct a vicious genocide.

there will be no more blue corn chips in california, texas, maryland, dc, or north carolina by the time i head back to paksitan.

i did not know how much i missed them until this moment.

- GMB F1 W7 D1
got my best-ever handstand on a rest break during pirouettes. solid form, three seconds of very stable hold at the top. yes. progress on everything else, too. pirouettes still a bit ugly but the first two sets were solid. here is the third set, with less-stuck landings.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9CDQ1deXnk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9CDQ1deXnk</a>