deaner Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 Just curious how many on here are training to close the #3 and what are you doing to acheive it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 i would like to some day, right now what i do is set myself a small goal to achieve, and once that is achieved i set myself another small goal, each time coming closer and closer. i'm using a modified version of KTA which i have found works best for me. lots of strap holds with a filed down gripper and severe negatives, and negatives on the TTK mixed with singles on the TTK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdoire Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 I am training to close the #3 using KTA. Just started training 9/23 could barely do the #1. I can close the #2 which was my original goal gripper. I have since raised my KTA goal gripper to BBSM and have been 1/8" away from that. I still have 5.5 more weeks of KTA left. After this cycle I will be going after the #3. I have been told I may even be able to close an easy #3 when I have success with my Cert BBSM. KTA it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohanB Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 I am. My best try so far got me within 2-3mm of closing my #3. It wasn´t a deep set but even if I had closed it that day it would not have been a legal close in regard to IM credit card rule. My main goal is not to close the #3 but to bend a red and that´s what I´m training mostly for but I do some gripper-work as well. I usally do hard overcrushes with my filed #2 and max attempts with my #4. I´m not toutching my #3 for the moment, I want to see if I can get it without training with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli72 Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 I have but I don't have a video and still haven't sent my papers to IM Right hand http://www.gripboard.com/index.php?act=mod...cmd=si&img=1299 I alomost got it w/left http://www.gripboard.com/index.php?act=mod...cmd=si&img=1300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Yep. Still trying to close the damn thing. Had two injuries along the way which set me back a bit. But best so far is 3 touches of the handles with a deep set. WIthout a deep set I can get to about half a centimeter. So close , yet so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossman Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 i am training to close it now...on a credit card, i am a little over parallel usually..my best was 1/4 away.....i want to start KTA, and i will on christmas day when i get my #4 from my parents...doing alot of pinching and dynamic thumbg right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5xfive Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Add me to the list. No KTA (yet), but I am applying proven strength building science. I am hoping to get the 2 by 12/30/04, and that would give me 6 months to spend solely in search of that elusive #3 close. If I can not get it by then, KTA hear I come. n8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king crusher Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 best for me was about 1mm and i dont really set at all. but now ive fallen off that mark some. i did close the 3 in a hoseclamp set to just bigger then paralle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishred Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 i'm training to close it. but its not doing what i want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sybersnott Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I dream about the perfect #3 close.... something like Kinney did in the video... he rolled the gripper shut and ground it to dust!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I've been training to close it, using KTA, closed it once in the summer then took five weeks off from grippers for contest, started again mid-september, last night actually got two singles with the #3 only problem is it's with a fairly deep set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I remember at NOSII, I asked John Wood (after he no-set a #3 - 6 times in a row) any advice to close the #3. He said, "Yeah, get stronger..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli72 Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 what about the neck bridge no set #3 in one hand and an anvil or something in the other Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 No doubt! Eli are you Jake's cousin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octogen Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 I'm still working on closing the #2 consistently but thats part of my training to get to the #3 I train with very low volume because I just can't handle high volume work and I seem to make pretty good gains on as low as a few reps per workout twice a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 I'm still working on closing the #2 consistently but thats part of my training to get to the #3I train with very low volume because I just can't handle high volume work and I seem to make pretty good gains on as low as a few reps per workout twice a week. ← I wish I was so Fortunate to gain on few reps/ twice a week, I've exxperimented and I need the type of Volume that KTA recommend, although I read Joe Kinney's section in the Captians of Crush book and his method sounded very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bencrush Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 I have either lost (loaned out and they lost) or sold all of my #3s. I now wish that I hadn't done that. I am more interested in a no set close of my Cert GM but would definitely like to see if I can no set close an "average" #3. I'm guessing that I could now. Would certainly be nice to certify with a table no set close of the #3! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaner Posted November 24, 2004 Author Share Posted November 24, 2004 I have either lost (loaned out and they lost) or sold all of my #3s. I now wish that I hadn't done that. I am more interested in a no set close of my Cert GM but would definitely like to see if I can no set close an "average" #3. I'm guessing that I could now. Would certainly be nice to certify with a table no set close of the #3! ← I thought the grandmaster was very close to a #3, same wire size right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concrete Pete Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 I`m also on the quest for the #3. My problem is trying to get the #2 closed on a regular basis, and since i have been card tearing and bending more my hands have been shot to hell. i think i might ease back a bit on the card tearing since i have ripped a few decks on a normal basis "eventhough the cards i tear are just under a bee deck". also can`t be happier right now with bending ... i am up to bending 5 6inch grade 2 bolts in a row. i think by my birthday i hope to beat the #3 into submission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opnsysme Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 I have closed the #3 in front of two board members here, though I haven't been consistant enough to video it. But what I find helpful , is change. I did KTA and it was great, than I did a series of speed closes and negatives and that bumped me up a spot , then extreme negatives. And now a KTA-like session is what I'm doing and I'm finally getting regular at closing the #3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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