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Technique question
Hey TAC family. Struggling with getting my pinky to move away from my ring finger. Are there any recommendations for exercises to improve and increase the spread from index to pinky finger? Thanks in advance.
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Totally normal, I am struggling with it myself! Here’s an exercise that I did for weeks last year but have only done occasionally since and if I had done it 2 minutes a day, everyday I bet I wouldn’t have had any problem with Thursday and Friday’s challenges>
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Like Pete said… totally normal. Time… practicing and finger stretches help. I am about to look at the vid Pete posted too lol….
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Hi Ron, I wish it were a simple thing but it is really a time and effort game of muscular training that will allow you to do this. There is a “5 day Challenge” in TAC that deal directly with this. These were the most physically challenging exercises I have encountered anywhere. Critical to work these slowly, without tension (and it is going to be difficult to pull that off at first) but they also yielded the most dramatic improvement over time. The way fingers are engineered, they just don’t stretch away from each other on a spread very well on their own. You must train to fire those tiny hand/ wrist muscles in a circular pattern to get them to seemingly stretch apart on their own. This “5 day finger stretch challenge” specifically trains that. There is another skills course that is a stretching course (located under the “Basics” heading in Skills Courses but that is not what you are looking for). You want the “5 day Challenge” “finger stretch” found in the Skills Course section…..watch out for the Wednesday Challenge. It still makes my eyes water : ) These are really great fun!! “5 day” is used repeatedly. It can be confusing.
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I found the 5 day challenge and will give it a try. Thanks.
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Sounds good Ron, I encourage you to make this a practice. pick one. learn it by memory. do it every day, several times, short sessions. When it gets boring pick another one and do the same. When you have them all in your memory it really gets fun.
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Thanks Pete. Will give it look this evening after yard work 😉
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