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What is this move I am doing? (Top left)
Had 1:1 training today and got Eros, extended butterfly, a fun jade combo on spin, another attempt at Allegra but was too bruised to keep going and this mysterious and savagely painful upright hip hold thing which looks brill on spin.
Does it have a name? (Top left)You go into it from a thigh rest, reach round knee which you draw up and against the pole and clamp on with your side, squeezing the pole to your abs with your thigh and outside arm.
Not seen it before until my teacher did it….
Thanks
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Hmmm hang on, having consulted Veena lesson that is not an Eros. Wrong leg. So I don’t know what that is either. Can anyone help???
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Looks to me like you’ve got a straddle hip hold and then an inverted thigh hold variation. 🙂
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Thanks Polergirl. I call the top right straddle hip hold or hands free chopper, would you call top left straddle hip hold as well? The one with knee drawn up back leg extended, not inverted? It’s a bit like a half jade but not upside down
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Whooop, misread your original post. The top left, I’d simply call a planche, or maybe a machine gun variation/half machine gun, though usually you wouldn’t have your arm over your leg like that. ?
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It feels similar to a machine gun but less tilted, I twist hips in jade and machine gun so they’re out of square but in that trick you have to be square.
It’s not that different to lady planche but that has two hands on pole; in what I was doing it is arm wrapped round leg and squeezing hip and side into pole. The hand on the pole is basically just there to provide a lock to squeeze bicep into leg and leg into pole.
It’s as painful as a teddy or yogini.
Thanks! Maybe it’s a machine gun planche lol.
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Lovely photos 🙂 I think the top-left is Firebird., I saw Bethany Finlay do it a couple of months ago, and it was part of a boomloulou instagram challenge not long afetr. Very nice 🙂
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Thanks guys.
Hmmm. Well, I have made a video of it in case that helps. It’s a bit shonky but at least you can see what’s going on. I don’t think it’s Firebird (gosh how gorgeous that move is).I take it back about not being twisted/out if square. I am totally twisted like a jade or machine gun.
I am still a bit stumped. Needs tidying and a pretty exit (any ideas for that?) but I like it, whatever it is.
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Whoops here is video https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/53d85852-9e54-460f-87df-3ada0a9aa0eb
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When I was taught that move, my instructors called it “The Goddess”.
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Thank you!
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It’s the Upright Half Jade – looks amazing.
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