Stephanie Tallant

Key West, FL, United States

Nov 03 at 08:17 AM

I loooove this combo with the shapes from the challenge!! So good Espi!! And so happy to see you able to participate in the challenges again yayyyyyy! Thanks for posting here!

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Nov 02 at 03:53 PM

YES! Very clean Susan!! Awesome babe!!

Nov 01 at 07:15 PM

Try bending that top arm babe. Thatโ€™ll engage the bicep, which should take a little pressure off your grip. Lower shoulder pressing up to ear and top arm bent for a strong bicep ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿผ

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I'm going to give you a drill as a little flexibility test to see if you have the range of motion already and it's more of a technique thing, or if we need to work on increasing your flexibility in that shoulder before continuing.. have you happened to do this tutorial already? if not, can you try it when you pole! and if yes, do you remember how it felt and how many blocks you were able to do?

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Adv Tutorial Twisting Drill...

Perfect drill for bird of paradise, allegra, jallegra, and...

Woohoo nailed this combo babe! Excellent!!

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I am sooooooo excited about this!! AMAZING!! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰

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Yayyyy so happy seeing this! Good job John!

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Oct 29 at 04:30 PM

Hiii babe! good question - whenever I say "activate", I mean "engage" or "contract" or "squeeze"... does that make sense? For example, I say this a lot when training splits. Right front split example.. "activate" or "contract" the right quad and left glute.

Now for BOP - when we enter it directly from this twist, sometimes it's difficult to get the pole in the "right" spot on the inside leg. which is why I like to teach this slowwww and very focused way of getting the inside leg into position. I describe it in detail around minute 1:00 (https://youtu.be/rkFBhLNTYOc).ย 

Your twist is very good though!! I can tell you're working hard to keep the ear glued to the pole which is super important, so good job!