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What am I doing wrong?? (Pretzel/ballerina)
I have been poling a few months now, and am progressing quite well. I have all of my basics and am moving on to inverts…so far, so good! 🙂 I am in love with the flying ballerina pose. Doing the pretzel/ballerina spin is one of my favorite things to do and I think it looks impressive when doing the pose up high on the pole. My only problem is, I have a static pole and even when I really jump into it and extend my lower grip, I'm still hitting my back against the pole (in the spin)…I don't know if it's my posture is stiff or if I'm putting my body at the wrong angle or what. But I really want to master this move so I can work on getting into the pose for the flying ballerina. Also, do you all get into the flying ballerina from a ballerina spin? I mean, I know you can, but it's just where I'm on a static pole, I don't see how I can get the momentum to do it that way! Thanks!!!
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When you say the spin, do you mean the reverse grab ending in the pretzel?
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The reverse grab spin took me a few months to figure out and I used to have the exact same problem. I first started trying at about the stage you're at now. I'm not sure if the reason I finally got it was just more experience or being taught by someone different with different technique (in my experience it's not uncommon to get a new skill simply by having it taught to you in a second way.) What I changed was to step out away from the pole on my last step on my outside leg, rather than just stepping forward like I would for other spins.
I've never come close to getting into a flying ballerina from the pretzel spin (in fact I only just figured out a pretzel spin), but you can also get into it from an upright crucifix position. It takes a lot of flexibility in some sort of weird direction I don't entirely understand and it's a bit bruisy, but worth giving a go for the prettiness.
Here's a video of me getting into it:
https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/4dac4e91-0264-4e67-9c08-1ee20ac37250
And here'sone from Blueeyes that I favourited to learn it myself. (Blueeyes, I hope you don't mind me posting this, but it's been so helpful for me https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif ðŸ˜‰
https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/eae66438-bb68-11df-856f-001b214581be
Of course the way pole terminology goes, you could have meant something entirely different, and this is all useless to you but oh well…
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