I have a hankering for those press up's to handstand from forward bend or press up to jump back. Been coming back to it off an on for a year or so but never seem to get that much closer. Some progress yesterday though with something I picked up from Kino's DVD. It's that "bringing the shoulders further apart and the shoulderblades down your back" thing that I've mentioned as being helpful in my jump back. Tried doing that yesterday and found I was feeling much stronger and more firmly grounded. I started off with the jump to point of balance I've been doing lately, Kino style, but coming in a step closer to my hands each time until I'm in a normal forward bend. then the trick is to kind of hop the hips above the shoulders hold and then shoot the legs back to Chaturanga. This morning I took it a step further with a hop up and then, still in balance, bending the arms and lowering down as I shoot my legs back....makes for a softer landing, perhaps a little more graceful too.
Anyway it feels good and I'm sure this work will all come in handy for some of the second and third series arm balances one day. Here's the video from yesterday. Ignore the jump forward I was in two minds as to what I was doing and it's a bit of a mess.
To get that press up to handstand I mentioned, I'm also approaching it by getting into handstand walking the feet in 'till I'm up on my toes and then slowly raising mylegs up and then down and then up ETC......... normal headstand and also three point headstands.
2 comments:
Hi Grimmly
Kino is amazing. She said it took her a while to build the strength to do those jumpthroughs. I'm always afraid I'm going to topple if I were to lift that way high, but then it's just fear. I see that you're doing that already.
Cheers,
Arturo
Thanks Arturo. Still think it's more about balance and weight distribution than strength. Jumping up to that point of balance. I worked on a lot of handstands and half handstand in frount of a wall and that gave me the confidence to do it in my jump throughs. Trying to do it kino's way throughout my practice but only nail it about half the time the rest i tend to come down to sit rather than managing to swing through. But again i think that's the weight distribution having your shoulders slightly forward of your wrists as you come down allowing you to pivot at the shoulder....something like that.I look forward to meeting her, think she comes to London next year.
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