Rachel Osborne
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2. Knee pulls across the chest to the shoulder like a car seatbelt; twist TWIST TWIST your body so the pole locks deep in the pocket above the hip bone below the ribs. Deeeeeeeeep. It’s easier to get flat if you bring knee to opposite shoulder then unfurl the leg from bent, rather than waving it about straightened. Many people seem to instantly get 2 inches flatter if they grab their foot or ankle, not calf, and then crush their boobies into the side of their top thighs.
3. Now arch your chest and push your breastbone up to the side of your thigh: try to push your cleavage to the side of the front leg.
4. That hand on your bum is not there for decoration. It’s SHOVING the hip joint back up into its socket, to quote Aerial Amy, like yo are juicing an orange.
5. And finally. That back leg. Drop it. Drop it more. Don’t point your toes, point your whole leg starting at the hip flexors and point it hard and straight down at the floor. The release will feel weird if you’re doing it right – imagine you are wearing a garter belt. Where the ribbon things that attach the stockings to the belt lie on the top front of your thigh – that’s where you flex, extend and focus. Flex and point like crazy whilst feeling that part of your leg working your quad. Use your glutes to fire the energy all the way down to your toes. Twist, lock, exhale and drop drop drop back leg.
There you go, my jade nerd essay. 🙂
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Ok, I LOVE jade and it was my dream move – the trick that made my jaw drop and my skin tingle and made me want to dance on a pole. I never thought I’d be able to do it. I obsessed over it and read, watched everything I could find that was vaguely relevant to understand the mechanics of it so it stopped being magic and impossible and became obtainable and trainable.
I could go on and on, and frequently do, because I love helping pole sisters get flatter jades and am constantly trying to improve mine. The best tips I have are from Aerial Amy, Miss PoleTricksee and of course, Veena. In no particular order:
1. It is not splits. You are not in a flat split. It shouldn’t even be called splits. It is a TWISTED push-pull strength hold with straight legs. Forget splits and oversplits: that’s a totally different ball game. Look at the angles in that pic I took sideways on and upsidedown. See? It’s like a chopsticks. Hips twisted waaaaaaaaay out of square. To be crude, your crotch/shorts gusset is not pointing up. It’s twisted sideways. If you were super talented in the exotic tricks department and could fire ping pong balls from your hoo haa whilst jading, they would hit the wall, not the ceiling.
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Did someone say jade?
I have to put my boy to bed and read stories and stuff for next hour but would love to pop in here later and be a jade nerd.
Meanwhile I just got this cool pic of my jade from above in my showcase solo! Posting it because it helps to have visual of all the stuff I will be banging on about shortly: the twisty push pull secrets I will always be grateful I was taught of how to cheat your way into flat jade
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Forward fold
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I am sure you will get there! It might take self-education, extra workarounds and some regular reconditioning drills but you can heal your core and find your straddle power! And we will all cheer you on!
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There will be threads here on it and also stuff online. I hope you can get help from GP or women’s physio expert x
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Sorry to hear that. Sounds very hard. Did you get given rehab exercises for your core? If not, then starting the diastasis recti rehab programme could help and certainly won’t hurt – Veena will probably have suggestions of which lessons here will help?
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Have you ever been pregnant and if so were you checked for diastasis recti? Just a thought as the core muscles used on the exercises shown would be negatively impacted by that condition. The exercises done to recover from it could potentially assist in strengthening for the straddle press. Disclaimer: not medical person
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When you airwalk forwards or backwards using bracket grip/split grip, it can look like twisted grip because of being side on to the pole. It’s not twisted grip though.
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Crow 🦠pose bakasana
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Day 13 boat pose ha ha ha. For the full vid of me balancing on mooring post whilst passing boatload of tourists all take pics see Instagram
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Day 12 wide legged forward fold
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Poor Allyson, chair pose is particularly awful when you’re tired.
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Chair pose day 11
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Baddha trikonasana – bound triangle day 10
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Day 9 tree pose
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I still don’t have Ayesha! It is a nemesis move; it frightens me and I dislike caterpillars so I rarely train it. Everytime I do train it I injure myself. So I have decided to leave it. Been poling consistently for a year at home and did classes for a year before that. I am pretty strong and love elbow grips, it’s just the handstandy feel of it I hate. Reverse Ayesha I love, shoulder mounts are fine, I love being upsidedown – but I prefer to invert and use a leg or hip grip rather than weight on hands and forearms. I think if you really want Ayesha it will happen when your body is ready. I don’t think I want it enough: there are other tricks and combos I am much more motivated by and interested in.
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Yasssssss! I am so happy and excited for you!😎👊🙌ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘
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I have never been able to do it from the ground! Aerial and spinning! Kristy Sellars youtube tutorial, have you watched that? It helped me. I will bump my vid of it as on spin you can see the entry really clearly. It’s hip and hands hold and it’s balance plus hamstrings flex.
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Day 8
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Day 7 padmasana lotus pose at sunrise with cat
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Hell yeah! They are great!
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Warrior2 no warm up. Stiff and sore today despite semi-rest day yesterday, over training again because of showcase so not doing the other crazy yoga challenge I’m involved in today, going to stretch and have bath instead.
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Warrior 1 day 5 in a thunderstorm
