SonyaB started this discussion ·
This is how I keep landing my inverts, Err! I am positioning my legs wrong which is probably why I am struggling once I am up there. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y127/ClickClikBang/Snapshot_20090611_49.jpg
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Aw thats so frustrating, happened to me too in the beginning 🙂 All you have to do is keep holding yourself up with your arms and move the leg that is the most 'off' the pole behind it so that the pole is squeezed between your shin of one leg and the calf of the other. You'll get it!!
Meleania ·
instead of wrapping your right leg in front of your left leg wrap it around the back of the pole, like you do when you stand on the pole only upside down!
You need to get your hips higher, that will help the hand positioning. This is a really common problem for women who are early inverters without good training. As your hands are between your knees, this is causing the problems, you need to get them further up your thighs, which will make it far easier to release your hands and get your knees around the pole. thighs are more squishy than bony knees, which will mean you can wrap your legs around the pole better. Lift you hips as high as you can get them. I'm sure Veena has great videos to instruct, if not, try the Jamilla videos. your current problem is really common and is exacerbated by the eagerness to invert AFAP. Also ensure you can do a good crucifix too, the leg positions are very similar. And make sure that there's no flinging of legs to get up the pole, use your abs to lift your hips. Hope this helps, but it's what I have to correct when girls are trying to invert without training.
Foxy_Rei ·
instead of wrapping your right leg in front of your left leg wrap it around the back of the pole, like you do when you stand on the pole only upside down! That's backwards - her right leg needs to be in front of the pole, left leg behind it. Your outside leg is always on the front side of the pole; so if she inverted on the other side, you would be right, Meleania. When you invert, just take it slow (make sure you do all the things Rouge said) and hook that outside leg up and over first, then bring the other leg up behind the pole. Nice, slow, controlled - gives you time to think about what your legs are doing. If you can't do it slow and controlled, it means you're not strong enough to be holding yourself up there yet. Another good idea, which is something I did, is to lay with your back on the floor and practice the leg position. Pull your legs up the pole as far as you can and grip like you would if you were hanging there so you can learn exactly how to grip with your knees. If you do it enough, it will begin to feel natural and when you do it up on the pole you won't have to think about it.
azriel ·
i've come to realize that different people have a different idea as to which is the "front" and "back" side of the pole- so both foxy & meleania may be saying the same thing.. basic idea is that both your legs are on the same side of the pole, instead of having the pole between them. With practice you'll be able to hold yourself up no problem!! 🙂
Foxy_Rei ·
Hehe just to clarify, when I say "front" I mean the side that's facing you... the whole front vs. back thing confuses me, too.
SonyaB ·
I was just writting a reply when my computer decided to restart on me, So I will try to remember what I had wrote. First off, Thank you everyone for the tips. I bought Veena's lessons the other day and I have been practicing on the floor like she says and I have gotten the leg positioning down that way but when I go into an Invert my legs automatically go the wrong way lol. I think I need to build more streghth cause once I am inverted I can't pull my hips up. I also am not jumping into the invert I know I am pulling with my abs cause right now I feel like I've done a million crunches 😂 I will just have to work on building some more core stenghth I guess as of now before I try anything inverted. I know I've made a lot of progress since the beginning, before there is no way I would have been able to atempt pulling myself into an invert 🙂
Hmmm, if your left leg wants to automatically cross in front, why now practice a right handed invert (which means the pole is on your right side)? If you are right hand dominant, most will invert with the pole on the right. Right now, in the picture, you are practicing a left handed invert where the pole is on your left.
did think about this today too and thought that switching sides may help. Try it. Also, how high up the pole are your hands when you're on the ground? Try to have them no higher than your head, with your strongest hand on top and in "patty cake" / "inky pinky" position. which is were the little finger of the top hand i touching the index finger of the lower hand. Hope this makes heaps more sense. added this to the end of another post, lack of sleep and caffeine are what I'm blaming.
SonyaB ·
I'll have to try with my hands up a little high when I am standing I have been positioning them fairly low about shoulder level maybe?.... I just heard the higher you have them the higher you will need to kick and lift your legs. So I started low... But I will try that. Thank you for the advice everyone! 😀
Shoulder height is fine, most people I know usually have their hands about ear height. But again, if the ab strength isn't quite there to get the hips up, then it won't work. Being my problem, I relate. 😂 Good luck and we want pictures of the progress.
Trena ·
Are you left handed or right handed? 🤔
SonyaB ·
I am left handed but oddly I use my right more. Pretty much I can use either hand though. 😀
