As we tend to our torn hands and look back at the week that was at Anchor we realize we’ve done about 75,000 pull ups this week. A lot of athletes are working on perfecting the pull up so we wanted to offer some additional support. We posted the kipping pull up tutuorial about a week ago but want to revisit the importance of the movement. Like peanut butter to jelly, like ham to hamburger… the kipping pull up is to CrossFit 🙂
From the CrossFit Journal on Kipping pull ups, “Kipping comes in a myriad of styles, and each athlete has a signature kip, but in its most elegant form the kip is a transference of movement first generated in the horizontal plane, where it comes cheap and easy, to the vertical plane, where momentum and a perfectly timed pull from the back launch the athlete forcefully upward. ”
CrossFit games competitor Jason Khalipa explains the kipping pull up.
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Feel free to read the entire CrossFit Journal article here: http://www.crossfit.com/journal/library/32_05_Kipping_Pullup.pdf
