@Jillian O'Neill this set looks pretty good but I can see on your first rep that your knees bent pretty early. I tried to get everybody to keep their legs straight as long as possible, and that includes the upward part and even as you start to drop. But once your hips reach full extension and you can't pull your legs back further without bending them, that's where the knees should bend to allow the feet to continue the movement that the legs could not continue by being straight. Does this make sense? The problem is really an imbalance of weights beneath the bar. When you bend your knees early then your feet and the weight of your lower leg and feet are behind you and underneath the bar more, but that puts a lot of weight behind the bar compared to if your feet stay in front as you finish the top of the pull up. Dropping from there with your legs back will cause the next rep to feel like it's shooting way out in front of the bar and then the third rep would feel like you're flying way backward away from the bar. Is this what your experiencing?

@Jillian O'Neill where are you at on these currently? Also, I'm planning to head to Wellington in January. Do you have anybody there who is lacking a bit of gymnastical motivation? I could conveniently add a stop to my trip (pre Open).

You were stuck in this position (yes, with bent legs) for too long. Obv we want to keep the legs straight, but as soon as your legs snap back it's already time to V-up. Any delay will create a loss of continuity in your movement and you'll be more likely to reach the transition position but lacking height. Try to think of your legs as a fish tail whilst swimming up streams, as the tail (your legs) have to keep moving either forward or backward to make it up against the current (gravity is the stream).

@Chase Chastain You're all good! You can do it from here! When I'm showing on my videos I really try to over exaggerate positions. Having the hips completely straight at the top of the pull up is not a necessity, but if you try the butterfly and it does something weird, it could be that your hips just didn't open enough and the hip angle into the arch caused some issue. Otherwise, just go for it like this!

@Chase Chastain Yes, start with singles and build from there. I think doing kipping (non) C2B to BFly C2B can help you learn to be patient with your backward leg draw (that should happen only as you drop). If one feels pretty good, try doing two. If you can get through 4 reps then you're good to start building volume, but watch out on the timing of the backward leg pull because you'll start swinging wildly if you pull legs back prematurely.