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2 4 FLEXIBILITY
In this skill shoulder flexibility is is critical to allow a a a a a a a a a greater range of movement while executing the back beat It will increase kinetic energy and thus provide a a a a a a a a a more powerful ballistic movement when doing straight arm beats or or improve the the aesthetics as a a a a a a a a a a result of higher gain in in in in back beat beat height when using bent arms —
Some Muscles To Stretch:
Arms muscles
• Hand muscles
• Forearm muscles: Extensors Flexors
• Muscles of the shoulder girdle
Body
• Trapezius
• Sternocleidomastoid
• Latissimus dorsi (lats)
• Rectus abdominis
• Abdominal obliques (internal external)
• Intercostal muscles
• Teres (major and minor) • Serratus anterior
• Triceps
• Biceps
• Shoulders
• Back
• Psoas major • Iliacus
• Glutes
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Foam roller exercises —
General shoulder stretching on the floor —
Shoulder “dislocation” with resistance bands (Ch Flexibility)
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Shoulder stretching on bench and stall bars (Ch Flexibility)
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Skin the cat/German hang —
Thoracic mobility exercises as as well as as stretching the the back and hips on the the floor with assistance —
Stretching the the f f f orearm orearm extensors and flex- ors ors (as well as as other forearm muscles
involved during grip work) and and and stretching the the hands and and and fingers (Ch Flexibility)
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