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From Compensation to Control: How Targeted Conditioning Changes the Way a Roll Feels

Six weeks is not too short to make a real difference, when the programme is built around the specific mechanics your skills actually require. Neural adaptations begin within the first two to three weeks of a new training stimulus. What changes first is not the skill itself. It is how the movement feels. Here is what the research says, and what students actually notice.

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Why Drilling Your Russian Climb Over and Over Is Not Making It Better

Repeating a skill you cannot yet execute cleanly does not build it. It builds a more efficient version of the error. This post explains the neuroscience of compensation patterns, why short-arm and long-arm pulling are not the same thing, and what structured component training actually looks like for rolls and up and overs.

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