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Standing Helicopter, a great cross training exercise for surfers

Exercise of the Week: Standing Helicopter

Ready to Challenge Your Coordination? This One’s Got a Lot Going On

Perfect Cross Training for Surfers

This exercise, Helicopter, from the Upper Body Series, has alot to wrap your head around. There’s the 3×3 pattern that’s broken up by extension and flexion of the elbows. Then there’s the 4 part breathing pattern that lays on top of that. And that’s before we even put you on your feet.

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Wingmaster Setting 1 – Looking for Freedom standing

Wingmaster Setting 1 – Looking for Freedom, standing

Doing exercises on your feet is essential training for basic life. Most activities of daily living involve being on your feet. What this exercise adds to the standing position is a hip hinge, which is one of the 7 primal movements. Primal movements are the building blocks of how we learn to move naturally as we develop when we’re infants and toddlers.

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Exercise of the Week: Wingmaster Setting 2, Reverse Tai Chi Standing

Wingmaster Setting 2 – Reverse Tai Chi Standing

I named this group of exercises “tai chi” because if you take the Wingmaster away and visualize the movement it kind of looks like a movement you’d see in actual tai chi. It’s not an actual tai chi movement, but bicycles or dolphin from the Hamstring Series aren’t actually how to ride a bicycle or how a dolphin moves either. It’s metaphors, man.

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