Try bending that top arm babe. That’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 💪🏼

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?

Woohoo nailed this combo babe! Excellent!!

I am sooooooo excited about this!! AMAZING!! 🎉🎉🎉

Yayyyy so happy seeing this! Good job John!

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). 

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!

Omg yayyyyyy!! Your smile in this too, I love it so much!! 🤩🎉❤️🥳

Vanessa had some great advice!! You can also try practicing some with the red band, which will give you just a little support, so you can focus on trying really hard to keep the arms bent and active (biceps and lats)