David Mitti Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (edited) Thinking of shooting for a IM Yellow reverse barehanded. The barehanded bend really makes you focus on those hits. Edited August 3, 2016 by David Mitti 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Trott Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Those bends looks pretty easy for you. How are you planning on working up to the IM Yellow barehanded? I guess for barehanded stuff you need to stay quite far from your max to avoid puncturing your palms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anwnate Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 17 hours ago, David Mitti said: Thinking of shooting for a IM Yellow reverse barehanded. The barehanded bend really makes you focus on those hits. I've been working barehanded recently. I have a suggestion. Chamfer the ends. Here's the thing. The idea of barehanding is to add pain tolerance to the equation...not to add pain to it. If you chamfer the ends...there will be plenty of pain anyway...with much less risk of injury. The avoidance of the ends is nearly identical...and there is no reason to injure yourself on practice bends anyway. The other big thing is this. You can go ahead and bend a yellow without chamfered ends and get credit for it. I can go ahead and order 200 yellows...and cherry-pick the least pointy of the bunch, bend that one and still get the same credit of an "unaltered" yellow barehand bend. If we both chamfer the ends...we are comparing apples to apples. FYI...all of the steel that IronGrip, FBBC and Silvis provides is chamfered. If anyone is looking to make it more dangerous...they can always sharpen the ends. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobbler Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Barehand I have to start reverse or DU. Don't trust myself enough yet to start it DO. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mitti Posted August 4, 2016 Author Share Posted August 4, 2016 2 hours ago, Liam Trott said: Those bends looks pretty easy for you. How are you planning on working up to the IM Yellow barehanded? I guess for barehanded stuff you need to stay quite far from your max to avoid puncturing your palms. I will probably switch over to some drill rod and work my way up slowly. Like you mentioned I want to toughen up the hit spots on the hands . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mitti Posted August 4, 2016 Author Share Posted August 4, 2016 2 hours ago, anwnate said: I've been working barehanded recently. I have a suggestion. Chamfer the ends. Here's the thing. The idea of barehanding is to add pain tolerance to the equation...not to add pain to it. If you chamfer the ends...there will be plenty of pain anyway...with much less risk of injury. The avoidance of the ends is nearly identical...and there is no reason to injure yourself on practice bends anyway. The other big thing is this. You can go ahead and bend a yellow without chamfered ends and get credit for it. I can go ahead and order 200 yellows...and cherry-pick the least pointy of the bunch, bend that one and still get the same credit of an "unaltered" yellow barehand bend. If we both chamfer the ends...we are comparing apples to apples. FYI...all of the steel that IronGrip, FBBC and Silvis provides is chamfered. If anyone is looking to make it more dangerous...they can always sharpen the ends. That's exactly the way I'm looking at it! Not looking for injury, I want to build that foundation up with the hands and slowly move forward. Pretty excited to here your working the barehand as well, always good to have others sharing in the fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Trott Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 @David Mitti what are the specs of the flat bar you are using here? I can't make out the measurement in the video. Would you recommend flat bar for new benders along with round bar? This is the first time I have seen someone bending flat bar outside of scrolling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bencrush Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 2 hours ago, Liam Trott said: @David Mitti what are the specs of the flat bar you are using here? I can't make out the measurement in the video. Would you recommend flat bar for new benders along with round bar? This is the first time I have seen someone bending flat bar outside of scrolling. I'm not David, lol - but I'll add my 2 cents anyway. I did a few barehand flat bar bends and they felt much more comfortable (less painful) than round bars. But I didn't do many of them because I quickly realized (just my opinion though) that it wouldn't have much (or any) carryover to round bars. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bencrush Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 On 8/4/2016 at 10:05 AM, wobbler said: Barehand I have to start reverse or DU. Don't trust myself enough yet to start it DO. I've bent the FBBC 1/4"x7" CRS in DO, DU, and Reverse. Years past at this point. DO sucked. I had to do it super slow mo to avoid either punching myself or crucifying myself with the bar ends. DU was pretty easy. Reverse was not too bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Trott Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Thanks Ben, that makes sense. I am going to get a load of 6mm bar next week in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mitti Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 On 8/8/2016 at 3:53 AM, Liam Trott said: @David Mitti what are the specs of the flat bar you are using here? I can't make out the measurement in the video. Would you recommend flat bar for new benders along with round bar? This is the first time I have seen someone bending flat bar outside of scrolling. I just wanted to try the flat bar beings I've never bent with it before. From here on out it's going to be all regular bar bends.. I would say stick with regular bars unless you want to venture into say scrolling or something other.. Most have the Red on the list of goals so obviously the best way to get there would be hitting that round stock .. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Trott Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 4 hours ago, David Mitti said: I just wanted to try the flat bar beings I've never bent with it before. From here on out it's going to be all regular bar bends.. I would say stick with regular bars unless you want to venture into say scrolling or something other.. Most have the Red on the list of goals so obviously the best way to get there would be hitting that round stock .. Thank you David. I will stick with the round bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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