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I don't think it's really the ankles... for a pistol to be successful, and I know this because I can compare my left and right legs (I can deep pistol squat pretty easily with my left leg and I can barely get to parallel on my right), it's important to be able to "reach" the glutes and lower abs and to stabilize that pelvis.

On my right leg it's usually a lack of glute/posterior chain control/recruitment that I have that prevents me from getting all the way down, plus the lack of strength.

Yeah great video... maybe I should try to do GHRs again on the lat pulldown machine and film them... I wonder where I stand right now since I was able to do natural glute ham raises pretty well.

Quote from: Raptor on June 01, 2013, 06:00:30 pm

It is rumored that Ivan Ukhov can pistol squat with 150 kg on his back. If anybody finds a video...

that doesn't even make sense. how would he not pitch backward? i have an easier time imagining a 150kg pistol with the bar in the front squat position. unless he has insane ankle mobility, i guess.

My thoughts exactly when I heard about it. Maybe he has out-of-this-world lower ab and glute strength to maintain that position.

also , watch this raptor

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0j_KxV6I1k" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0j_KxV6I1k</a>

Good, I will try to mess around with that on the edge of my bed which is pretty soft... I don't have a swiss ball.