This past weekend at a coaching clinic I was surprised to hear that one of demonstrators could not do kip on bars. Well … she had done it a few times in the past.
Yet she could do 7 good chin-ups and hold V-hang on a bar for 15 seconds. That’s more strength than is needed for kip.
Happily she made several good kips in series at the clinic. One of the best days in the career of any gymnast.
Back in the day we had a box of kip t-shirts at the gym. Whenever one of the kids learned kip they got one as a prize.
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