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Twisted grip nightmare :-(
Twisted grip has always been my nemesis, firstly I could get the grip but nothing else…for years! Then the more I practised I found my forearm was starting to ache and eventually to hurt. It got so that the pain was so bad I knew I had done some kind of muscle injury and I stopped. That was over 6 months ago and in that time I’ve been doing various wrist strengthening exercises since the injury recovered.
New year new start!?! Thought I would try again but now, every time I twist my upper/outer arm I get a very sharp pain in my posterior deltoid. I regularly attend the gym and this muscle does not hurt at any other time or during any other exercise, only when it’s twisted. My core and wrists are now so strong I am convinced I should be able to finally break my nemesis if only my shoulder would agree! What can I do to strengthen and perhaps stretch this muscle? Does anyone else have these problems?
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A lot of polers skip twisted grip altogether. It’s not necessarily good for you and your body seems to be telling you so! Try split grip or true grip. They are more difficult but so much more impressive and safer for your joints in the long run.
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in the time you took off working on twisted, did you try split or true at all?
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There are so many posts and blogs about the twisted grip and how it is really not good for you. Your body is screaming NO…..when are you going to listen?
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Some people can do twisted grip easily and the rotation of the shoulder is not damaging for them when carefully and properly trained up. But some people have real anatomical limitations that make it unsafe for them to train this move, and those people should not do twisted grip bracket holds. It has nothing to do with their skill, ability, or capacity as pole dancers. It has only to do with how their muscles, tendons and skeleton are set together according to their DNA. It’s no different than how some people have anatomy that will allow them to train up for 18″ oversplits on both sides where some people’s hip anatomy simply does not allow for oversplit training. If you have taken time off as directed by a doctor, done recovery, trained up carefully and built your strength and your body is still screaming NO, if you were a student in my class I would be giving you modifications away from using that grip. Moreover I would be using the sum total of all my teaching powers to show you that you do not have to take it personally because this move isn’t for you. And I will say from my teaching experience that this is not something you HAVE to be able to do; there are modifications for almost every trick and transition I can think of. Working on those modifications can make you feel better!
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Thanks everyone 🙂
I think in truth it has been sooooo long now that my head just hasn’t been thinking straight. I’ve been thinking “everyone else I know can do it so there’ no reason why I can’t too” and in all that time I don’t think I’ve once taken a step back and seen it from a different perspective. You have all helped me with that so thank you!
I have never tried split grip or true grip because in my head if I couldn’t do the twisted grip then these harder grips were completely out of my reach. Guess what I’m going to be practising today…
poledanceromance you talk of modifications, any help or guidance you can give me would be very much appreciated 🙂
Cheers again for the kick up the **** I should have sought advice sooner and saved myself a lot of frustration and pain xx
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