Feb jump back

Feb 08 Trying to work on that bringing the hips up high (see the screenshots on the right of my blog, Lino, Sharath, Kino, Scott, Swenson) Mine is closer to Sarath, but I like how in Lino and Swenson the hips seem to rise and draw the legs up and through, all graceful like . Not really getting it and Jump through is still work in progress sometimes I seem to get it just right and it all comes together. other days....not. Here I start losing control coming down and it speeds up and I go flying through, not what I was after.

Been thinking about the jump back lately and how, while there is the obsession to get the Asanas so perfect. All these adjustments, it's done THIS way not that way, toe has to be turned in an extra half a mm. And how the further up the series you go it gets almost Iyengarish in an attempt to nail the pose. Yet the Jump back/jump through..... well your left pretty much to your own devices it seems. And yet yoga mala stresses its importance along with the breath and the bandhas. And lets face it, it's pretty much the defining face of Ashtanga to anyone looking in. You'll be held back for not Dropping back or coming up from UD but not for an untidy vinyasa. Seems strangely inconsistent....what is going on here?

I suspect it's something to do with holding someone back. You can hold someone back for an Asana which might take months but if you held them back for Jump back it could take years. imagine being stuck at Pachi A for five years because you cant jump back in exactly the right way.