D.o. Help Please

[cjsta]

can someone please help me with learning the proper form for the D.O. bend? from reading D.O. & D.U. topics and comparing my braced and unbraced progress i feel the D.U. style is holding me back. my current bests D.U. are G5 1/4" x 7" and kinked a 307A 5/16" x 6". i don't feel these compare very well to my braced bends, especially now that i've done the 8" companion. i've been watching D.O. videos but i'm unsure of the start and the under the chin position.

chris

[makey98]

Diesel Crew Bending Book

This is a link to Jedd Johnson's e-book on bending from the Diesel Crew. He goes over the mechanics of all the major bending styles and it is very well done.

[Alawadhi]

Erics Ebook is also great. You can find it in the bending forum. Another great way to learn is to watch DO videos. Aaron, Gazza, Gatorgrip, and many other have great videos to learn. Thats how I did.

[neilkaz]

A very fine article from two of the best is also at the Diesel Site http://www.dieselcrew.com/articles/gregdavebend2.pdf

You may wish to pay particular attention to Dave's positioning at for the start of a DO bend. I wish my 49 year old shoulders were that flexible, but since I have started stretching and often with a bar in wraps trying to get under my chin, I am about 1/3 of the way closer to getting into decent position than when I started, but still have extreme difficulties with the initial DO kink.

.. neilkaz ..

[cjsta]

thanks guys for the great info

chris

[Booyah!!!]

Hi Chris, If there is someone within a couple hundred miles from you that is an experienced DO bender it would probably be well worth the effort to do a get together bending workout for really learning the technique. When the member map was available, I thought there were a lot of dots around that area.

[gazza]

Chris

Your braced bends are awesome so you certainly have the strength bro.

Get yourself some 1/2" plastic/polycarbonate or bamboo and cut a couple of pieces at 7.5" and 8inches take the 7.5" piece and sit/stand infront of a mirror now pull the piece as high as you can get it into the chin neck area and hold it there no just push into the ends of the piece so it flexes ever so slightly but remember the aim is not to bend/snap this piece its only a training aid make the piece flex ever so slightly not a huge flex then when you feel it just flexing pull up into your chin neck area with your index fingers and torgue up also with the wrists as tou feel it starting to move more ease off with the shoulder chest pushing and just let the index and wrists do the work hold this for a few seconds then relax and repeat this also helps stretch the shoulders and get them used to being in the right position for pushing just so this a few times a day throughout the day or on none bending days i also do this when watching tv and just will pick a 1/2-1hour programme and do this on and off throughout the programme were i perform 100s of miny isos i find it very affective.

You can also do the same thing for the DU style and Reverse i sometimes do the above if i have a slight strain or i am not bending no stock etc i just do these and the isos and i still seem to maintain a fair bit of bending strength.

[liam.mccaffrey]

i can vouch for gazzas advice, that particular technique is fantastic

[com202]

Hi Chris, If there is someone within a couple hundred miles from you that is an experienced DO bender it would probably be well worth the effort to do a get together bending workout for really learning the technique. When the member map was available, I thought there were a lot of dots around that area.

Good advice. I luckily live about 2 hours from Eric Milfeld and he was kind enough to let me come to his house several times for some training.

Its very helpful to watch somebody bend in person and they teach you how. It also doesn't hurt if that person is one of the best.

[cjsta]

thanks again everyone for the help.

Gazza, the technique that you describe has shed some light on the form for me, I'm starting to get the feel for the start of the bend. Watching you on you tube and Pat on 336, now knowing more of the mechanics of the bend, I'm starting to feel more comfertable with the D.O. style. I think its going to take alot of practice to feel natural though. I tried one of those 1/4"x 8" grade 5's that I crush easy D.U. with my new D.O. form but it didn't go. I guess I'll start over D. O. and get some 3/16 crs to begin training.

Chris

[pawel r]

http://www.powerschmiede.de/Artikel/Bending_1.0.2.pdf

[Tim71]

Big Steve Mcgranahan's DVD vol 1 is really good to study the DU technique. Don't sell yourself short on your DU capabilities. A G5 in that style is pretty good. My braced bending took off well before my unbraced bending did too. I could roll frying pans before I could bend a G5 where most people are dead opposite. People are just different and the unbraced techniques eluded me for a long time.

And it goes without saying that learning from Gazza is somthing that you can never go wrong with. There are quite a few really good benders on this board that I've learned from.

Tim