Just another Aysha issue..

turnandburn44 started this discussion · 8/23/2012

I have been working on my elbow grip Aysha for a few days and every single time I get my legs off the pole my shoulder to the arm that I have on the bottom cracks..yep it makes and audible noise. It hurts like a you know what. I work for a sports med dr and he says nothing is wrong with the joint. Per Dr its just that apparrently what I am doing must be bad form. I have the habit of locking my bottom arm. could this be doing it? I have watched tons of videos of others doing this move and some look like the arm is locked and others not so much. any video links are helpful and sorry to post yet another Ayesha question. 🙁 -lb http://lindsaysmajesticblacksandblues.blogspot.com/

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AriFerrari · 8/23/2012
I just got my Ayesha last week, so I'm no major source of info here. However, I had a similar issue when trying to learn. My shoulder was kind of popping in and out, no sound and no pain though. My instructor said it seemed like I was double jointed? I've always been able to kind of move my shoulder in and out weird, but it's never happened unintentionally until trying the Ayesha. She told me to stop relying on that arm to "hold me up" and I was told by her and several other sources to create a push/pull hold, the elbow being the pull and the bottom hand a push. I had to mentally readjust from pushing all my weight down on the bottom hand to pushing out with it. Idk if this will help your issue, but in experience it's what made the difference. When I made myself aware of that change mentally I finally got the ayesha I'd been working on for MONTHS. In one of my pictures you can see my bottom arm is a bit bent, where when I was having trouble it was stick straight and locked. Also, Sgirl told me to put grip on my elbow, that helped me a lot too! Good luck and be very careful!