Pike Skin the Cat

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Watch Pike Skin the Cat

Technique

How to perform Pike Skin the Cat

1. Grasp the rings and hang with your elbows straight, legs together and enough clearance to move through the rings.
2. Keep the knees straight as you lift the legs and fold at the hips.
3. Continue rotating the pelvis and torso through an inverted position while maintaining control of the rings and straight elbows.
4. Lower on the other side into your controlled shoulder-extension range, allowing the hip angle to change rather than forcing a fixed ninety-degree pike.
5. Reverse the shoulder and trunk movement to bring the hips back through the inverted position.
6. Lower the straight legs under control and return to the starting hang without a swing.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Anterior Deltoid.

Calisthenics graph

Progression relationships

These relationships describe graph position, not personal readiness.