Shoulder Placement In Free Arm
Posted: 08 Nov 2019, 16:12
Hey All!
Sascha Bachman created a couple posts a while back about the placement of the free shoulder in one arm handstand. He mentioned that the tendency to bring the shoulder up (down and away from the ear) will create a rotation in your balance by compromising the alignment of the one arm handstand. He suggests keeping the free shoulder shrugged near the ear to maintain alignment and prevent rotation.
I’ve experimented with this a bit but I don’t think I have enough experience to discover a correlation between the free arm shoulder and OAHS alignment. My focus still tends to stay in the support shoulder alignment to keep me up on one arm. Has anyone else here experimented with this little subtlety? When moving to transitions or more advanced one arm holds, does this suggestion really help?
What are your thoughts, Natalie?
Thanks so much for reading, everyone!
Kindly
Mike Ferris
PS Here’s a link to a recent IG post, where I clearly don’t have my free shoulder near my ear, but am able to still relatively keep control.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3SxhlxgvXS/
Sascha Bachman created a couple posts a while back about the placement of the free shoulder in one arm handstand. He mentioned that the tendency to bring the shoulder up (down and away from the ear) will create a rotation in your balance by compromising the alignment of the one arm handstand. He suggests keeping the free shoulder shrugged near the ear to maintain alignment and prevent rotation.
I’ve experimented with this a bit but I don’t think I have enough experience to discover a correlation between the free arm shoulder and OAHS alignment. My focus still tends to stay in the support shoulder alignment to keep me up on one arm. Has anyone else here experimented with this little subtlety? When moving to transitions or more advanced one arm holds, does this suggestion really help?
What are your thoughts, Natalie?
Thanks so much for reading, everyone!
Kindly
Mike Ferris
PS Here’s a link to a recent IG post, where I clearly don’t have my free shoulder near my ear, but am able to still relatively keep control.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3SxhlxgvXS/