Skin the Cat

GymDaze demonstration

Watch Skin the Cat

Technique

How to perform Skin the Cat

1. Hold the rings and begin in a controlled hang with your arms straight.
2. Draw your knees toward your chest and rotate your hips upward into an inverted tuck.
3. Keep your elbows straight as you continue rotating and lower your hips and feet behind you toward a controlled German hang.
4. Stop within the shoulder range you can actively control rather than dropping into the end position.
5. Reverse the movement, bringing your knees back toward your chest as you rotate through the inverted tuck.
6. Return to the initial hang and extend your legs under control.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Anterior Deltoid.

Calisthenics graph

Progression relationships

These relationships describe graph position, not personal readiness.