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Split/bracket grip air walk tips
Posted by Rachel Osborne on August 25, 2014 at 9:59 pmI suck SO much at this; I look like I am prancing my legs and pointing toes in manner of person doing pointy toe bicycle crunches. Can anyone help? I did vid it but it’s kind of embarrassing :-/
Thanks 🙂
Rachel Osborne replied 10 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 9 Replies -
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The biggest tips is don’t make steps the way you would on the floor. Most people over exaggerate their steps because they’re in the air and it ruins it. Do a baby lift of your knee not a huge one and when going between flexing and stepping with the feet same thing. Keep it a bit more subtle and it’ll look better 🙂 this is from iguana but you should still see the difference and Jenyne’s the best at this (it’s her signature and she teaches it really well) http://youtu.be/c0FSHifXslk
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One of the big mistakes I see is people keeping their toes pointed when they walk. When the foot comes forward your foot should be flexed…..when we walk we land on our heels, not our toes.
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That’s true: I stopped pointing and tried again but ended up doing tippy toe balls of feet which looked equally daft!
When I do heels down flexed feet it’s hard not to splay toes like a tree frog. Maybe I should try in shoes.
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Try in just a basic baseball grip hold, belly on the pole. You can walk “either side” of the pole. If you do it *just off the ground, you will have to move your feet more naturally.
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ooh it’s actually very similar to “water legs” or “medusa”. so really STRAIGHTEN the knee in the backwards motion part.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=601097116611409&set=vb.176402985747493&type=3&theater
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Thanks – love the FB clip.
Learned a prancing variation today which looks better than my early efforts but still having issues getting feet to look like they’re stepping along flat surface; the tip about trying just off ground is genius 🙂 -
Prancing face saving variation here
https://www.studioveena.com/videos/edit/53fe79a4-14cc-4fce-89bf-4dd70a9aa0eb
Meanwhile will practice proper air walk without tree frog splay toes and get back to you…
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