What do you call what I did today? First, some useless background:
It was a pretty slow day at work this afternoon, and I was hanging stage lights while standing on a roughly twenty-foot A-frame ladder (the A1 model of the Little Giant ladder). As usual, in the middle of this, one of the event coordinators told me to stop since there was possibly a setup change. Okay, fine, whatever, they stand around talking for a few mintues, and I'm getting bored, so finally they leave, saying they'll be right back, and don't move. Well, in my boredom...
I did a couple pull-ups on the underside of the ladder, looked up, noticed there was no cross-support, so I started climbing the ladder, hand over hand with no foot contacts, up the underside until I got about halfway up (got a bit scared of my height from the ground then, especially with a failing grip), and reversed course. Basically, I was doing staggered concentric, almost plyometric pull-ups, using my momentum from the ground jump to get me started, necessary since I had to maintain position with one hand only while transferring to the next rung. My hands were never even--always one over the other. What did I just do other than discover yet another use for that ladder? [img]smile.gif[/img]
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It just worked out that (a) it was a weekend, meaning (b) no big-wigs around, (c) no clients or guests were around, and (d) there were no valuable/breakable objects nearby. However, now that I've done that, I know I can do the pegboards that you see in wrestling rooms, so I might try to hit up the local high school for access to theirs.
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