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spatchcock
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I swear it helps!
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Someone was just posting about this on one of the fb pole pages too and I’m interested in some advice, not because I especially want to be able to do it on the pole but because I’m curious about the stretching involved. I have a middle split and a pancake in straddle so I thought I’d give the spatchcock a crack from the ground, just to see. However, when I was getting into it, I didn’t feel it where I expected to (ie. similar muscles to the straddle) but instead ended up tweaking the top of my hammie on my lower leg and I remembered (too late) someone saying to me once that they’d popped their hammie doing the full move. So, is it about straddle at all or more hammie? I’ve been having problems lately with a tight feeling in my upper hammie anyway (I have to work hard to maintain hammie and butt looseness because I’m a runner, particularly on hills) so suspect that may have been a major contributor to the tweak but yeah, anatomy of spatchcock info anyone?
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I have heard legs behind the head stretch can help http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X8AIKvld4jU looking at what’s being stretched and the positioning i can see why BUT saying that i personally have no idea. I can get my legs behind my head (not back like she seems to but i have no middle split yet so i have never ever tried the spatchcock (and wont be for a long while)
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Oh yes megsmith, that would explain why I hurt myself – whenever we do what my stretch teacher calls the eating feet stretch (which is like the first part of that behind the head stretch, but pulling the foot towards the face rather than behind the head), I feel physically incapable of getting my leg even close to my face, let alone behind my head:/
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I think this is a trick where pretty much “anything” could happen. Which is not so strange when you think about that you’re going to squeeze yourself into an overstraddle on a pole. So try to do an overstraddle on the floor and see how that feels, it should be closer to the spatchcock feeling than an ordinary straddle.
I think pains can turn up both here and there depending on our bodies and how we are tweaking ourself into place. I had some hip joint pain for about a year after doing it. It was nothing severe but I felt that it was there when I did middle splits. Felix says that the grip of the lower hand can be damaging for the wrist. I didn’t feel anything there, but to each their own pains.
So my advice is to do a really proper warmup, ‘(over)straddles and middle splits stretches. Don’t make many attempts at the same occasion. And especially if you start feeling something odd, stop and leave it until the next training session or so.
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Lina, when you mention overstaddle, are you referring to straddle position with a yoga block(or some sort of lift) under each heel. like a pancake stretch? that’s kind of what I’ve been working on. thanks! 🙂
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Yep, exactly what I mean!
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