TK17 Forms - The Wall Form

Form #1: Upper Body Wall Work
So, you start facing the wall, and you want it to be a wall that's high enough that you can dangle from your fingers with your body fully extended and not touch the ground, so somewhere in the 7.5 - 9 foot range, probably. You also want there to be at least ten or fifteen feet on either side of you, if possible, though you could adapt the form if you can't get one wide enough.

To begin: Climb the wall. Personally, with the wall I'm using, I like to just walk up to it and jump to catch the top rather than doing a wall climb. So, however you do it, you end up with both feet on the top, and you're facing away from the side you climbed.
  1. Cross your left foot behind your right, onto the wall, and turn 180 degrees towards your left shoulder to face the way you came. Without stopping, smoothly continue this leftward turn as you drop your hands onto the wall and sink into a hands-down/waist/planche/top over position (NOT a cat leap ... just the position you're in AFTER a muscle-up).
  2. From here, shuffle/traverse towards your right, five "hand" steps. This whole time, your arms are still straight, so that your entire torso is above the wall. So, you move your right hand out, and then the left hand comes in to meet it, that's one step. So one two three four five to the right.
  3. At this point, drop down into a standard cat-leap position, except you want to have your LEFT foot higher than your right. What you're going to do here is very similar to the movement in a cat-to-cat, where you haul upwards with your arms and then step upwards with the bottom foot (in this case, the right foot). Only, instead of pushing away from the wall like a cat to cat, all of the push will be straight up. You're going to launch yourself straight up into the air, clap your hands once, quickly, and then catch the wall with both hands again as you fall back down. Net result, you didn't go anywhere, but you did one explosive pull-up. Do this a total of three times, always with the same foot. (Almost everything in this form is based off of the number three, and rather than extending it to four or five in the future, I'd prefer leaving it at three and just repeating the form over and over.)
  4. Now shuffle/traverse in the hanging/cat leap position back to the left, towards your original starting point. This should take about THREE movements of your feet, which is why we did five of the upper shuffles. I'm thinking of the traversing rhythm where, if you start with all limbs close together, you stick your leading foot waaay out on beat one, and your leading hand as well, then the trailing hand comes in on beat two, then the leading hand goes out again on beat three, and then the trailing hand and the trailing foot come in to meet on beat four. So it's like FOOT, hand, hand, hand, FOOT, hand, hand, hand, FOOT (except that the leading hand also moves out with foot. That's ridiculous to explain, but I think you know what I mean. Anyway, three measures of that back to where you originally started.
  5. From here, you're going to take your right hand off the wall and dangle on just one arm for a slow count of three. Then you'll take your left hand off the wall for another slow count of three. Then you muscle up all the way to stand up on the wall.
  6. Now you're going to repeat the steps you've done so far on the other side. So first, cross the right foot behind the left and turn right shoulder around 180, then continue the spin smoothly as you drop into the hands-down position.
  7. Now shuffle/traverse five steps to the left, still in the topover/hands-down position.
  8. Drop down into cat leap position, and do three clap muscle-up, cat-to-cat style, only this time with your RIGHT foot on top, and your left foot being the one that actually steps up to push.
  9. Now shuffle/traverse three measures back to the right in the catleap position.
  10. Now take your left hand off the wall and hold for three, then take your right hand off the wall for another three, and muscleup back on top, both feet on top.
  11. Now, from here, drop straight down backwards, both hands on either side, and from there lower yourself down into the catleap position, and from THERE, lower yourself so your body is fully extended like you're just hanging off a pullup bar. It's your call whether this transition is done quickly or slowly ... slowly works the muscles much more, but personally I think this form works the muscles plenty, and I like the idea of practicing a SWIFT transition from standing to being ready to take a drop.
  12. In this dangling position, do three pull-ups as high as you can. Your forearms will not change position ... it's everything else that moves. Try not to use your feet, although with the grip on my toes I've found that I HAVE to "walk" my feet up with me as I rise. But don't let them take any weight, at least. After three, then pull up halfway and hold for three, then pull up all the way and hold for three, then go back down halfway and hold for three, then go all the way to dangling and hold for three, then do three more pull ups.
  13. From the fully extended position, you're going to take three hand-steps to the right ... right hand leads and then left hand meets it three times.
  14. Now whip your legs up and into a cat leap position, and you're going to do "cat grab climbers." Have you ever done mountain climbers on the ground, where you're in a push-up position and you switch your feet forwards and backwards? It's like that. Basically, split your legs as though you were about to do a cat-to-cat ... pull one leg up as high as you can (but don't let the knee stick out to the side), and let the other dangle down all the way extended. SLOWLY, because it doesn't hurt if you go fast, switch the feet, then switch back. That's one ... the full switch from left-up to right-up and back should take 2 - 2.5 seconds. Do three of these.
  15. Now go back to dangling fully extended. Again, take three hand-steps, this time back to the left. You should, once again, be centered on the wall.
  16. Whip up to catleap position, and again do three more catgrab climbers. This time, stay in catleap position when you're finished.
  17. WITHOUT twisting your body and leaning (I assume you did this in steps 5 and 10, because it's hard/impossible to one-arm cat leap with your arm NOT centered unless you lean), you're going to take you hands off the wall one at a time like so: take the hand off the wall,and tap the wall right in front of your face with your palm before returning. So you'll tap with the right hand, then with the left (that's "one", then right, then left, then right, then left, for a total of three pairs.
  18. Now you're going to pull yourself up like you're going for a crappy muscle-up ... drape your right forearm flat along the top of the wall like a noob. However, you're not actually trying to get the OTHER arm up ... from this weird, half-raised position, you're going to do three pull-ups relying mostly on that other arm, the one that's still in the normal cat leap position. These are small, subtle pullups, not "long" enough to do a "halfway" and an "all the way" hold, so after the three, you're just going to hold all the way up for a three count, then all the way down for a three count, then do three more pull-ups, then drop back to a cat leap position.
  19. Repeat step 18, only this time with the left forearm flat along the wall.
  20. This will be the hardest muscleup of your life.
  21. Now that your torso is above the wall and you're in the hands-down/waist/planche/topover position, do three "dip" style pressups. Make sure not to lean your body forward, but to move mostly straight up and down. Then hold halfway for three, all the way down for three, halfway for three, up for three, and again, three dips.
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