Shoulder Pain While Campusing

Looking for some tips/advice here. While doing large moves on the campus board (1-4-6) I get a sharp pain in my shoulders when reaching through on the 1-6 move (eg. start matched on 1, left hand to 4, right hand to 6 = sharp right shoulder pain. It feels like my shoulder suddenly can't rotate any further to complete the reach and the pain is very sharp and sudden but then goes away after a few minutes (usually dissipates while I'm resting for the next campus set). I don't get the pain when doing smaller moves (1-3-5-7-9) and I don't get the pain when starting matched and doing a large move (1-5). The pain only seems to happen in the shoulder of the hand that's reaching through from below to above the other hand.

Has anyone experienced anything similar to this or know what this could be? Could it be a technique issue? Shoulder mobility issues? It's frustrating because I'm trying to make larger moves on the campus board since 1-3-5-7-9 is getting easy but my shoulder is keeping me from making longer reaches.

This is almost impossible to help you with, without actually seeing your movement. There are so many ways you could be performing that reach, and different points where you rotate, how your arm tracks through space, etc.

Some people swing the arm way out wide, some try to track it almost straight up, some people's torso swings side to side a good bit and that influences the reach movement. Almost every digi point and shoot will take video these days. Maybe shoot a few seconds of your campus move and also point out in the video where in the shoulder it hurts and you may get some constructive advice.

Thanks Will. My next campus session is on Thursday. I'll take some video and post it when I'm done.

This article might give you some ideas of what could be happening...

breakingmuscle.com/mobility…

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