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Machine gun. Help!
Good god why can’t I get this?! Anybody have any advice. I can’t get any grip to even start this trick. I imagine it to be gripping between the stomach and hip area. But I just can’t get a grip there at all. There has got to be something I’m doing wrong. Please tell me this move isn’t just that one hand supporting all your body weight?! I can jade, no hands jade, and chopsticks, but machine gun isn’t happening at all. I would post a video but there is really nothing to show you! I stand by the pole , put my leg up, make my shelf with my arm , grab with opposite hand but nothing is actually holding me on the pole to lift off the ground. Help!!!
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I have never been able to do it from the ground! Aerial and spinning! Kristy Sellars youtube tutorial, have you watched that? It helped me. I will bump my vid of it as on spin you can see the entry really clearly. It’s hip and hands hold and it’s balance plus hamstrings flex.
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Thank you TropicalVertical I will check it out! 🙂
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oh my god!! TropicalVertical!! I love you!! okay, so I just got finished with 2 hours of poling and handstands so I’m exhausted, bruised and have lost some skin. I just took a long bath and was looking at your video while I was soaking in epsom salt. I thought to myself, damnit. Im gonna get out of the bath and just let myself try it ONE MORE TIME. I did it!!! I only managed to hold it for like a second or two, but it was so much better than all my other efforts!!! I dunno. something about seeing how your bottom leg is kind of away from the pole before you get into the move helped me. I was keeping that bottom leg really close to and wrapped around the pole and it was making it hard to get the position and grip right. I only tried it from the floor but I did it! and I was never able to get that from the floor before. so next time when I practice I will remember how to get that grip again. you have given me something to work with. thank you thank you!!!!! you are awesome!! such a help. it’s weird how its the little things that help. I was thinking it was something about that top leg or my hand, but it was really the only thing I wasnt thinking about . the only thing that really doesnt seem relevant for this move, my bottom leg. 🙂 woo hooo!
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Yasssssss! I am so happy and excited for you!😎👊🙌ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘
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