Awesome Tim! I couldn’t agree more with your philosophy and you are much appreciated. I enjoy all of your different approaches to your content as well.
Sensei, your friend Max, listed as 1.85 meters and 117 kilograms, is moving fantastic with the rope. I can see your "hand" in his training together with the hard work and dedication coming from a professional athlet. I hope many more will follow this wonderful practice.
About starting rope flow: I think it's important to have that path of openness to see what shows up. I know it's cool to do all the definitions and have tutorials about how to start your movement. There's this other side of just starting to figure out on your own how to be able to find patterns. I remember watching Uncle David when he was kind of at a manic point and just barely sharing Instagram stuff about the rope and he kept talking about how you would come up with this three-dimensional visual brain thing that didn't make sense... Until I just had a rope and started doing matadors basically. By no means am I any good and I can't do a dragon roll worth of darn but there was that neurological component of figuring it out and seeing what was open and available. It's kind of like getting a writing prompt. Sometimes it's important to narrow the focus and actually be able to produce something. Other times it's fantastic to be able to look at that white page and think that anything is possible. And we live kind of in between those two points. I think too many sports and fitness routine stuff gets so stale from following pre-recorded directions or patterns. Then their folks like David that go so far into the open ended nature of things. You literally need someone to translate the weird foreign language that comes out of being in that open space for too long. I think rope flow fits into that. Really good category when you can throw it to geriatric to elite athlete and brand new 10-year-olds and continually get interesting results from where they are. Love your videos
Hey Tim I think Rope Flow is a thing that this 60 year old guy would like add to my daily practice... I have two torn rotator cuff muscles in one should, and one torn in the other... I am a tall guy - 2 m, and hover around 110kg's... it seems counter intuitive to choose the lightest rope, but it is probably the best option with the shoulder injuries... is that my starting point... the light rope, despite my relative size and strength otherwise...? I cycle for fitness, and would love to strengthen my shoulders to do a bit more swimming as a complimentary upper-body exercise to the lower-body cycling...
Hey man yea definitely best to err on the side of caution with the shoulders and just focus on gentle movement through nice spirals and a rotating range of motion. Piccolo would be my recommendation. Golden Teacher might be fine but I’m not in your body so hard to say for certain.
Good video with some nice pointers . Any experience with cold plunges Tim ? I have seen you in lakes out in nature but wondered if you have your own ice bath and routine?
I’m looking forward to the follow up video where these guys figure out that ropeflow is so much better than lifting and they focus on ropeflow instead.
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Awesome Tim! I couldn’t agree more with your philosophy and you are much appreciated. I enjoy all of your different approaches to your content as well.
Thanks Turf, will keep it coming
I really like the idea of doing reacting videos Tim! Thanks for this
Glad you liked it Frank, now I figured out how to do it expect more =]
These reaction/commentary videos are super helpful! Thank you.
Sensei, your friend Max, listed as 1.85 meters and 117 kilograms, is moving fantastic with the rope. I can see your "hand" in his training together with the hard work and dedication coming from a professional athlet. I hope many more will follow this wonderful practice.
He put a lot of time in on his own to be fair to him. Great learner!
About starting rope flow: I think it's important to have that path of openness to see what shows up. I know it's cool to do all the definitions and have tutorials about how to start your movement. There's this other side of just starting to figure out on your own how to be able to find patterns.
I remember watching Uncle David when he was kind of at a manic point and just barely sharing Instagram stuff about the rope and he kept talking about how you would come up with this three-dimensional visual brain thing that didn't make sense... Until I just had a rope and started doing matadors basically. By no means am I any good and I can't do a dragon roll worth of darn but there was that neurological component of figuring it out and seeing what was open and available.
It's kind of like getting a writing prompt. Sometimes it's important to narrow the focus and actually be able to produce something. Other times it's fantastic to be able to look at that white page and think that anything is possible. And we live kind of in between those two points. I think too many sports and fitness routine stuff gets so stale from following pre-recorded directions or patterns. Then their folks like David that go so far into the open ended nature of things. You literally need someone to translate the weird foreign language that comes out of being in that open space for too long.
I think rope flow fits into that. Really good category when you can throw it to geriatric to elite athlete and brand new 10-year-olds and continually get interesting results from where they are.
Love your videos
Great job, Tim. This was really fun and interesting. I love the route flow talk!❤
Cheers Dan
I was just thinking about this the other day literally as have some bigger guys at the clinic that I want to share this with. 👍🏽
Yeaa share it with em, nice one
Really enjoyed that ☺️🙏
Hey Tim I think Rope Flow is a thing that this 60 year old guy would like add to my daily practice... I have two torn rotator cuff muscles in one should, and one torn in the other... I am a tall guy - 2 m, and hover around 110kg's... it seems counter intuitive to choose the lightest rope, but it is probably the best option with the shoulder injuries... is that my starting point... the light rope, despite my relative size and strength otherwise...? I cycle for fitness, and would love to strengthen my shoulders to do a bit more swimming as a complimentary upper-body exercise to the lower-body cycling...
Hey man yea definitely best to err on the side of caution with the shoulders and just focus on gentle movement through nice spirals and a rotating range of motion. Piccolo would be my recommendation. Golden Teacher might be fine but I’m not in your body so hard to say for certain.
Good video with some nice pointers . Any experience with cold plunges Tim ? I have seen you in lakes out in nature but wondered if you have your own ice bath and routine?
Odd I got underhand sneak no worries - but can not get dragon roll to work
Interesting that, stick with it youll get there
I’m looking forward to the follow up video where these guys figure out that ropeflow is so much better than lifting and they focus on ropeflow instead.
Stay tuned...
I'm a pretty big dude. More big dudes (and sprinters) need rope flow as movement therapy.
Amen brother
What is the "P.r" that you were speaking of people chasing & as being a limiting factor, please?🤔
Personal Records
@@Tims_Gym 👍thank you.
So... being a bored 5yo boy with a jump rope is a sport now? 🤔🤷
I'm in!
haha yup let your inner child out