[moonflower]

The studio I use to belong to taught ONLY split grip everything. No forearm or elbow to ease into it and practice balancing. I had so much elbow and forearm pain while I was there. I ended up learning my forearm and elbow grip after my split grip after finding studio veena. Practicing my straight edge and aysha with my elbow grip feels so much better for my body. I slowly relearned the split and TG and this time, no more pains!

Unfortunately my ulnar nerve is already damaged from sliding down on my lower arm in the split grip, sometimes, my pinky and ring fingers still go numb. I wish I found SV and learned abotu proper progression first.

[moonflower]

Wanted to add that one way I was taught to make sure your hisp are squared is to do the splits with your back knees bent and put your lower leg up against the wall.

[moonflower]

No, opening/tilting your hips will NOT damage you at all. It will give you less of a stretch. When I did gymnastics, our coach had us tilt out hips to get a straighter line but practice with a hips squared for better stretch. Square hips can not achieve a single straight line because the hip holds the legs sided by side, the splits will be flat, but the legs will not be a single long line.

[moonflower]

Wow thanks!

[moonflower]

I got my first inverted crux from a SM as well. With the basic invert I had problems when bringing my body to the front because I felt as though my leg position is moving ever so slightly. This is how I corrected it. I SM, hang into inverted crux, THEN move my body to the side into a basic invert position, stay there for a while and then tried to move my body back in front. Once you get the motion of moving your body from the front to the side, movign it the opposite way seem s a lot easier.

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

[moonflower]

I should be there this month! YAY! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif

[moonflower]

Even if you do get the right position it will hurt like holy-I-do-not-know-what for the first month or so. Also expect lots and lots of bruises on the inner thighs. I still get the bruises sometimes even though I’ve been desensitized to the pain.

[moonflower]

Veena, that’s my first experience with the jade drop as well. Luckily I tilted forward and my foot hit the ground first. i’ve been too chicken to try it since.

[moonflower]

Thanks! I’m trying from the star as well, I’ll wait for the lessons. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif

[moonflower]

Anyone?

[moonflower]

Thanks. I think blu tac will work great to figure out the size, I never thought of that.

[moonflower]

Thanks! That was helpful.

[moonflower]

It happens to all of us. It’s hard sometimes to confront the move again after wards. I fell out of the caterpillar climb pretty badly and it took me a while to get the courage to try it again.

[moonflower]

I’m having trouble envisioning how to go from brass monkey to lunchbox. The pole is in front of the body in the first and behind in the second. Any tips or videos?

[moonflower]

I find my back to be doing a lot of the gripping, really wedge the pole under your arm and press your back up to it.