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My first fall…. onto my head :(
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thanks for the tips–that's what I was wondering. And to clarify–I've always been 'safety first'. I've had a pole for years and am only just now trying a lot of the advanced moves, because I'm not willing to risk injury trying something too soon. And I always throw down couch cushions. 🙂
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I had a bad fall out of the bridge once, scared me for a while after that, i was really careful on the pole since then!
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In my opinion there is just no way to simulate a fall – a fall happens quickly and unexpectedly. The falls I've had are moves that I thought I had down, they weren't new moves to me – they were things I had been doing for awhile at no point during a practice session could I have ever practiced falling out of them the way I did.
Instructors need to be talking about it, we need to be educating about it but when it happens it happens – you hope that your training and knowledge will give you something to do quicky in the moment as it's happening that will save you injury. Which is why I think it's important to have a significant amount of pole experience before doing laybcks and inverts. I think having a lot of experience on the pole has saved me numerous times from what would have been all out falls and injuries. Being able to squeeze the pole with some body part quickly or grab with the hands – even if it's not pretty has saved me a lot of times. With experience comes increased pole and body awareness and for me that has led me NOT to perform certain things under certain conditions or on certain types of poles.
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Charley – You're so right. I've never had an issue with the butterfly, then all of a sudden out of nowhere the floor was coming towards me (scary). Luckily I turned my face and landed side-on or I would have broken my nose.
I'll definitely be A LOT more careful and aware from now on, including with moves that I've been doing for ages, but even knowing how to get out of something safely (I've practised ways of getting out of the butterfly properly, so it's not like I didn't know how I was supposed to do it) doesn't guarantee you're going to remember what to do/have time to do the right thing when something goes wrong.
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