Dscigs: In conjunction with your last one, I've recently learned that you can press ctrl+z after messing with some joints and it resets the joints to whatever state they were in going into that frame. Somehow I never knew this until like this week but I bet that would work well with the relaxall strategy.
Also I like how my tip is to always extend abs and yours is to always contract them.

Mrjingles: I'm happy I'm not the only one who's done my toribash moves IRL