No can do

[flexagon]

Sit up straight with both feet in front of you, toes flexing back toward your face. Straight spine, you lazy worm! Now pick your left leg up and tuck your left shoulder under the leg as much as you can (so, probably, the knee is gripping the outside of your upper arm somewhere). Very good. Now wrap your left arm, then your right arm, around behind the leg and your body, gripping the left wrist with the right hand.

Got it? Still sitting up straight-ish? Excellent! Now, can you straighten your left leg? Good for you, I sure as hell can't.

I had the uncomfortable experience yesterday of interviewing a gentleman who got his PhD from MIT three years before I entered as a freshman, and still was utterly unqualified for the job. He did a good job of convincing me he really would be happy in a software engineering position (rather than research with coding on the side, his usual thing), but Big Daddy is sure he was lying and basically making a grab for the money. He would have been a senior software engineer, so I'm sure the Frog is offering enough to bring the posers out of the woodwork, but it still disturbs me. It's important to discuss the topic of whether someone's going to be happy in a position. So how to avoid being lied to? I guess some proof really can be found in the level of expertise, at least by the time someone's been in or near a field for 20+ years.

Well, I woke up early and I have a ton of stuff to do, so I guess I'll head in. I'm wearing my Tevas for the first time this spring... a definite positive mark on the day. :)

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[jg26.livejournal.com]

Sit up straight with both feet in front of you...
Sorry, I can't even get that far. ;)

[webrat.livejournal.com]

Just thinking about it is making me ache.

[flexagon]

Don't feel bad. That actually does take flexibility, and core strength. Which sucks, because it sounds/looks so easy!

I bet I could talk you through to doing it though, if I said what the yoga teachers say about what muscle groups to use and so on.

[motospeedfreek.livejournal.com]

(realizing why she's called a "flexy bendy thing"...) crikey, no way in hell.

is this "tortured zen" pose? the "please may i dislocate my hip" pose? DO post a pic, when you get it...

[flexagon]

*laugh* no no... I'm flexy bendy thing because that came to my head when changing my name to flexagon. The people on c0ntortion are flexy bendy things, and blue is pretty darn bendy herself. I am little miss pathetic wannabe whose only fun in life these days is yoga class.

Look for a pic in a few years when I can do it. :) I looked around online, but w/o knowing the name of the pose to look for it was pretty hopeless. Half bear pose on this page is the closest, but obviously the hands aren't bound around behind the back in that pic. The leg would have to come in closer to the body before the person could do that.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Sit up straight with both feet in front of you, toes flexing back toward your face. Straight spine, you lazy worm! Now pick your left leg up and tuck your left shoulder under the leg as much as you can (so, probably, the knee is gripping the outside of your upper arm somewhere). Very good. Now wrap your left arm, then your right arm, around behind the leg and your body, gripping the left wrist with the right hand.

Got it? Still sitting up straight-ish? Excellent! Now, can you straighten your left leg? Good for you, I sure as hell can't.

Unless I'm picturing this incorrectly, my legs are WAY too fat to succeed at this. You'll have to post a pic.

[flexagon]

You're probably picturing it correctly. I can see how a thicker leg would make it harder for the arms to get the bind, though probably not impossible.

I can't find a picture, even in my yoga books. :(

[flexagon]

I'll be happy to humiliate myself by showing you on Monday though! I can take the bind on either side pretty easily, but my leg stays bent. Very bent.

Inflexy bent thing.

[jg26.livejournal.com]

that flexy... always on the lookout for some good humiliation play. ;)

[flexagon]

*laugh*

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, let me clarify - I didn't mean no one with legs chubby like mine could do it, just that I probably couldn't do that because of the added flexibility required for an already difficult seeming move.

I look forward to a demo! :-D