Pete S
Level 7 Valued Member
Travis,
Just found this thread; sorry I'm late to the party. Have been doing OS 5-7 times a week for the past 2 and 1/2 years. Yeah, I'm north of 55 (73). OS would be good for anyone, even parents.
Since I exercise the first thing in the AM, OS is a great warm up for me and all my follow on KB sessions. Ten minutes of continuous resets followed by 5 to 15 minutes of crawling. I do all the types of resets except for the breathing ones as I have been a belly breather my whole life due to asthma as a child. For about 2 years crawling consisted of 5 min of spiderman crawls (SMC) followed by 5 minutes of baby crawls, often done in a bird dog manner. Lately I have added loaded crawls that included 17 and 1/2 of a SMC dragging 48 kg and 10 min backward SMC dragging 24 kg. Also doing SMC bird dogs.
To your query about whether you can stimulate the vestibular system by doing OS with closed eyes, I cannot say but can give my experience. Segmented rolls were quite easy for me, so for a long time I did them with no arm movement and minimal leg movement while rolling with my eyes closed. I thought that this was a progression. However, one of Tim Anderson's blogs talked about rolling being basically a form of crawling. Another post by Tim or Geoff Newport reemphasized that babies first see something, move their head toward the desired object, and then move toward it. Bingo! Something clicked for me because now I use exaggerated and more graceful arm and leg movements for my rolls and move my eyes and head first. I believe I am getting much greater benefit from this than with the eyes closed variants.
When I was doing TGU, I had greater difficulty posting to my right elbow on left hand TGU than the other side. So I worked very hard to learn the FMS hard roll. I could do it to the left with difficulty but rolling right was really hard. For the past year and a half I have included 10R and 10L FMS hard rolls in my OS rolling sequence. Just recently I saw a video of Tim doing the hard roll and noticed that all he seemed to do is move his head. When I tried it, I moved my eyes first as far as I could, then my head, and let my body follow. I started to laugh when I discovered how easy the hard roll was now.
While you may get some vestibular stimulation with an eyes closed OS session, my experience is that I got more from moving eyes, then head, then body. FWIW
Just found this thread; sorry I'm late to the party. Have been doing OS 5-7 times a week for the past 2 and 1/2 years. Yeah, I'm north of 55 (73). OS would be good for anyone, even parents.
Since I exercise the first thing in the AM, OS is a great warm up for me and all my follow on KB sessions. Ten minutes of continuous resets followed by 5 to 15 minutes of crawling. I do all the types of resets except for the breathing ones as I have been a belly breather my whole life due to asthma as a child. For about 2 years crawling consisted of 5 min of spiderman crawls (SMC) followed by 5 minutes of baby crawls, often done in a bird dog manner. Lately I have added loaded crawls that included 17 and 1/2 of a SMC dragging 48 kg and 10 min backward SMC dragging 24 kg. Also doing SMC bird dogs.
To your query about whether you can stimulate the vestibular system by doing OS with closed eyes, I cannot say but can give my experience. Segmented rolls were quite easy for me, so for a long time I did them with no arm movement and minimal leg movement while rolling with my eyes closed. I thought that this was a progression. However, one of Tim Anderson's blogs talked about rolling being basically a form of crawling. Another post by Tim or Geoff Newport reemphasized that babies first see something, move their head toward the desired object, and then move toward it. Bingo! Something clicked for me because now I use exaggerated and more graceful arm and leg movements for my rolls and move my eyes and head first. I believe I am getting much greater benefit from this than with the eyes closed variants.
When I was doing TGU, I had greater difficulty posting to my right elbow on left hand TGU than the other side. So I worked very hard to learn the FMS hard roll. I could do it to the left with difficulty but rolling right was really hard. For the past year and a half I have included 10R and 10L FMS hard rolls in my OS rolling sequence. Just recently I saw a video of Tim doing the hard roll and noticed that all he seemed to do is move his head. When I tried it, I moved my eyes first as far as I could, then my head, and let my body follow. I started to laugh when I discovered how easy the hard roll was now.
While you may get some vestibular stimulation with an eyes closed OS session, my experience is that I got more from moving eyes, then head, then body. FWIW