Handspring help please :-) RE - My last vid!
Meg Smith started this discussion ·
Right here are my attempts - please tell me what im doing wrong!? http://youtu.be/yeNGA70zVrI
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Meg Smith started this discussion ·
Right here are my attempts - please tell me what im doing wrong!? http://youtu.be/yeNGA70zVrI
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Hi Meg I think 1st: in your starting position your body is side by side with the pole but it should be further infront so that when you bend down your head does not pass the pole 2nd: Also your top hand looks too high up, here's a vid to check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLMyrylJ4_g 3rd: It helps to keep your head down I think you need to bend much lower and get your bottom hand lower onto the pole too I don't know if you have Veena's lessons but her tutorial helped me get it - Good luck :)
PS: Another thing about the top hand it looks too bent also - Straighten out and move back like in Karol's tutorial
your bottom hand needs to be lower. notice where you place it when you do your lift, vs. when you do your cartwheel attempts. you are also really focused on turning your chest toward the ceiling in your attempts, but that is not really what happens in the cartwheel. they are very different (cartwheel vs twisted grip handspring). the body doesn't make the same motion. think DOWN (with the lower body), not UP
Thanks for the help I tried again - got alot closer but still not there at all. Will try again tomorrow when I'm full of energy :-)
I just re-read my post, and I meant to say down with the UPPER body, not lower. Ugh! ....sorry :)
The big thing that I see here is that you are not engaging your arms at all. This is not something that you need to focus on when doing twisted grip because the engagement comes from the the arm being twisted and creating its own stability (and one of the reasons why it is so dangerous). In a standard handspring you really need to have the push/pull going on and it looks like you don't. Can you butterfly, extended butterfly, Ayesha with split grip?
I noticed the same thing, the top arm is bent, you are to close to the pole, try to stand back and have top arm be fully extended, then reach low with bottom hand when you go to kick up and commit to allowing yourself to go upside down. it can be a scary move to do and sometimes hit or miss, but those few adjustments should help you. You can also try to bring your knees to your elbow when you first kick up to stabalize yourself then splay them out once you are balanced. I think the main issue tho is your top arm. Don't give up! :)
Thanks for the tips - Yes chemgoddess i have very solid all of them. I have a solid split grip handspring once i am up there. (there is a pic of my doing a sg handspring on a tree too - The last pic i upload to sv is a split grip passe. see this vid for instance im not using a twisted girp. https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/537259f4-06b0-4d4a-8dd8-13ce0a9aa0eb - i just can not do it from standing. I have to start arched.
Meg, if you aren't close to completing this, maybe you should use the good old "divide and conquer". Put both arms into place (probably lower than you did in the vid, as has been pointed out already) and swing your legs half the way up. Don't have as a goal to reach the top at first, it should come gradually. Focus on the right upper body movement (not turning chest up).
Update..... I done it!!! And more then once. You ladies rocks. Still not quite got the balance I do when I start both hands on the pole and arched but its defo there. So yay. Will upload vid after I have enjoyed the sun :-) thanks again x
