hey, i love all your photos! esp the ones you took of belacane in the gym, but also a lot of the outdoor contortion ones, like someone (amy?) in a bakcbend imitiating the bicycle racks...
Hehe, that was a funny one. It took several humerous back and forth exchanges before she realized I was trying to get her to immitate the objects behind her (which, of course, she was not looking at because she was facing me).
I know that Nourbol Meirmanov (of Meirmanov Sports Acro), the only person I ever trained handstands with, always told us to bend our fingers a little bit while doing handstands. My experience is that it is a little bit easier to hold myself up with my fingers bent. Yes, it does shorten your base slightly, but it puts your fingertips in a much better position of leverage against the ground. I think of it like this: If your knuckles are bent, you can exert force on the ground at the very end of your fingers. If they're straight, the force is distributed across your whole hand, so in a force over distance sense (Torque?) your base is actually slightly "wider" with your knuckles bent.
Does that make sense? I feel like I obfuscated myself toward the end there...
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Does that make sense? I feel like I obfuscated myself toward the end there...
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