Wow, thank you so much. Most helpful thing ever. I watched this over and over last Thursday, frame by frame until I thought I had it figured out, but didn't want to respond saying thank you until I'd had a chance to try it.
I finally had a real chance today, and although it didn't bug my wrist it basically still scares me. When practicing I've been tending to come up (not quite to balance) and then cartwheel out sideways instead of managing to continue the motion backward. I guess that means I'm not twisting. I have a very twisty spine so I should be able to twist... if I had the nerve to wait until I'm actually falling over, I would be forced to, I guess.
I do want to keep working on this since I totally see the utility on hard floors. Luckily, tomorrow is gymnastics which (because of the not-hard floor) is good for experiments of all kinds. Another thing I think I should do is just hs on the wall and twist to bring the side of my feet against the wall, just to see what that feels like.
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Date: 2006-11-05 11:57 pm (UTC)I finally had a real chance today, and although it didn't bug my wrist it basically still scares me. When practicing I've been tending to come up (not quite to balance) and then cartwheel out sideways instead of managing to continue the motion backward. I guess that means I'm not twisting. I have a very twisty spine so I should be able to twist... if I had the nerve to wait until I'm actually falling over, I would be forced to, I guess.
I do want to keep working on this since I totally see the utility on hard floors. Luckily, tomorrow is gymnastics which (because of the not-hard floor) is good for experiments of all kinds. Another thing I think I should do is just hs on the wall and twist to bring the side of my feet against the wall, just to see what that feels like.