All About the Human Flag (Part One)

Great Alkavadlo, this is so helpful i always wanted to to the human flag thanks 

Hi Al! I’ve always thought the human flag is the most impressive thing! If you ever visit Greece I’d love to workout with you!
You’re an inspiration, keep it up!

Hi, Al.  Great post!  I stumbled across your blog while researching workouts to perfect my human flag.  Yours is great.  Keep up the good work.

Also, I can’t help but point out the coincidence that we both write health blogs and even use the same site theme.  I’m excited to be back to the gym so most of my posts in the coming months will be focused on strength, hypertrophy and recovery.  Stop by sometime and say hello!

Geoffrey Hale
http://www.geoffreyhale.com/blog/

Thanks for the flag tip. I’ll try that method of starting with a vertical. Always found it too hard to hold for over one second! : /

does heavy deadlift training help for this, the back/front lever, etc? heavy like 5 rep deadlifts.

Hi Al, I’ve started practicing the clutch flag (from Convict Conditioning 2) and am on Step 2 (Diagonal Split Clutch).

My “go to” pole is a handy clothesline pole in the back yard (it’s galvanized and quite smooth).  The problem I’m having is when the pole is cold (out of the sunlight [here in the UK]) my hands slip down it (no matter how dry or wet they are).

I was watching Hannibal here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsTKfUT-RQ and saw his gloves at 1:45.  I thought these gloves would be just right for me when the pole is cold (like most of the time here [till summer anyway]).

Would you recommend them for my purposes?  And if so, do you know what kind of gloves they are and where I’d be likely to find some?

Hey, I appreciate that you’re a busy guy and my questions are kinda “one off.”

Sorry for the long post and I completely understand if you don’t have the time to answer.

Keep up the great work, it’s really appreciated.

Many thanks for the reply Al, appreciated.  I like the linked article.  I too tend to be a minimalist.  The reason for the gloves is simply to help me out temporarily while the pole I use is cold (when it isn’t bare handed is no problem).

SUCCESS
I purchased a pair of close fitting gloves with rubbery stuff on the palms.  Bingo!  I now stick to the pole like glue (instead of sliding down it).  And today I’m up to Step 4 (Diagonal Clutch).

You da man! 

It means you need more practice! Spinning is usually due to crooked alignment – try to make sure you are nice and straight.