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Shoulder Mount Flip to Chopper
I’ve been asked for a breakdown of this and it was too long to fit in the comments or decsription section of the video clip of me doing it https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
http://ver3.studioveena.com/lessons/view/5701
What you need for this combo:
*Respect Grip Shoulder Mount Flip with full control. I am lifting my legs without momentum and keeping them locked straight. This takes a certain amount of shoulder flexibility (flip grip is usually double cupped or Veena grip?), be careful.
*Aerial Chopper with full control, lifted, with straight legs.
*Chopper switch (aerial chopper right side, fold out, aerial chopper left side, fold out, etc.)- advantageous to know to help with leg movement, but not necessary.I SM flip with my right hand up and on and over my right shoulder. My right hand is the one that is highest for my Chopper and I am on the right side of the pole to do it.
So…. Respect Grip Shoulder Mount with right hand up, right shoulder on the pole. Take your legs into a pike over the right shoulder to prepare to flip. As soon as gravity takes your legs past horizontal, release the left hand keeping it up towards the right hand. While you’re legs are still dropping, grab the pole above the right hand in Chopper grip. Keep your legs straight and away from the pole as much as you can (instead of gripping in a sit or stand as for SM flip). Swing them to the opposite side of the pole while keeping up and engaged through the chest and shoulders. Push your legs and hips past the pole and into Chopper.
In my vid, my hands slide to get me into Chopper. It should just be a lift, this was my first session with it https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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11 Replies
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Totally awesome the video is a great tool for me this is now On my practice board. Thank you much!
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Holy Crap! That was amazing! Give me a sec to pick my jaw up off the floor!!!
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Oh NO! Totally forgot to ask Veena first if it was ok to put up a tutorial style post…Eek. Sorry!
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Love it – really creative and original!
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Wow! This is awesome. Now can you post it in slow motion? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif Heeheee
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oh this is a phat combo, like it!
MilienElayne i beg you, pleeease can you post a SM-tutorial??? you have the greatest SM ever.
something i the style: "from the very first beginning till this day" https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif step by step, with what you begun, how you increase, what practices you use… with videoinstruction hehe
sorry for the bad description, it is hard for me to explain what i exactly mean.
that would be AWESOME!
i`m curious about your answer
many many greetings roxi -
I think Veena’s lessons on it are awesome and there are a LOT of tips and hints in the forums already if you search for them.
As far as what I did first, I do things in bad order. I learned it from a vid of Karol’s where she does SM to Brass Monkey. I wanted Brass Monkey and that’s why I taught myself SM. I started with the full SM (cupped grip) with a slight kick and with bent legs and took it straight to Brass Monkey hook. I didn’t know you were meant to flip it to Crucifix when first learning. I moved to a lift with bent legs and went into Tammy. Then I learned it catching in Crucifix. Then, I saw that you can hold it for ages in a V and did that. I moved to straightening both legs gradually, just by drilling it over and over, til I could get up and over to a V with them locked. Then I slowed that down more and more. Then I learned SM splits, super invert, and SM drops. I moved to aerial SM combinations to learn DeathLay. I learned SM flip to the floor in cupped grip. I’ve just gotten Respect Grip solid (took me aaages) and found SM flip to sit MUCH easier in that. Have been working on and recently perfected the SM flag and SM lift straight legs from a sit on the floor https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif Still working on hops up the pole. Have done that a few times. I’m probably missing something.
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oh i would love to watch Veenas Lessons, but unfortunately i don`t have a credit card https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif
and tomorrow i will rummage the forum https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gifthank you so much for the explicitly description.
jay i think the most important element is practise, practise, practise… but i admit: i’m impatient! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif -
I’m not subscribed to the lessons so can’t watch the video attached to this
I’m misunderstanding which way I need to go… I SM on my right shoulder, so it’s my right hand in the twisted grip, left hand in cup grip, I flip to the right of the pole (same side as the shoulder on the pole). I can quite easily go over to sitting on the pole, I’m just misunderstanding which side is easier to complete this chopper. I usually invert with the pole to my left, with right hand on top. So at the moment I’m rolling to sit/upright crucifix before swapping my hand and inverting with the pole to my left. It just didn’t feel right to invert with the pole to my right, the flow wasn’t right in the direction of the flip.
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Here it is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-zZIGfMIgI
To illiminate the sit, keep momentum and so you don’t need to regrip the right hand you have to swing your legs to the opposite side of the pole to the one you flip down. I too chopper naturally with the pole to my left and my outside hand (right) on top as well. In the video though, I’ve just realised, my left hand comes off and goes above my right hand so it doesn’t get tangled in legs and my other arm. I am still choppering with the pole to my left. So it’s a chopper with ‘wrong’ hand grip. I sometimes chopper with ‘wrong’ hands and do so for strengthening exercises, such as the chopper switch I described in the above post.
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Awesome!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to break this down! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
xo
Amie
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