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WORDS: MATT EVANS | PHOTOGRAPHY: PHIL HAYNES | GROOMING: SUSANA MOTA | STYLING: ABENA OFEI | MODEL: CHRIS ROBERTS AT STEVEN VAN

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arm up so it’s straight

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on your hand. Slide

that arm back to

where your elbow

was to stay stable.

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the bar in your raised

left hand, maintaining

stability with your right

arm out to the side

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