Athlete In The City » capoeira

Gymnastics – tick tocks

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:00:30 +0000

Tick tocks are a way to exercise the upper back and shoulder muscles, and also work your shoulder and back flexibility. Try to work up to the by doing the yoga wheel first. Push up into your shoulders… As you progress, do them as slowly as you can, this builds up a lot of your stabilizer muscles.

Freestanding Handstand Pushups

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:00:47 +0000

Well, this video looked a lot better before youtube got ahold of it! Moral of the story, always use normal portrait view of your camera, don’t try to do tall sideways shots. Anyway, I do six here. They’re not the cleanest, but getting there.

handstand to one-arm to handstand – almost

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:00:44 +0000

Queda de Rins (elbow to the kidneys) is a Capoeira position/movement which puts like 2/3 or maybe more of the bodyweight on one-arm. I’ve been working these for years, but only recently was able to come out of one into a handstand. Yes, as you may guess, I can only do it on the right side. Anway, take a look at the video, slight jump into handstand, straight legs, ease it down into queda de rins, then back to handstand.

Crow Elbow Press

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:00:08 +0000

I’m going to call this the crow elbow press. It’s inspired a bit by the yoga “Crow” position, but also by the Capoeira Queda de Rins. Queda de Rins is pronounced kada ja hines, and means elbow to the kidney. This trick uses the triceps, abs, forearm, and lats to keep balance. It’s harder than it looks, believe me.

One day I will kick into handstand and come down on the elbow of the other side, that would be the expert or extreme version of this trick!