Transcript
Today I’m going to talk about safely getting into and out of the superman or some of us like calling it the superwoman. I suggest practicing it on the floor first. Particularly, so that you can review the position of your shoulder on the floor. I’m just going to walk through what I would be doing, if I was from the top of the pole, reviewing our nice effective climbing position, utilizing our leg strength to get up to the top of the pole.
The superman is hard. You don’t want to waste your energy trying to hoist up with your arms, ever. I’ll start in a lefty bicep grip pressing the pole down into the basement of the building. I would invert and hook my right leg above my hands, so I’ll go to that moment here on the floor. I would need to then change my right hand to be on top of my knee. My bottom hand goes into my pushing position. Going over that push/pull technique that was referred to in many other videos.
My bottom leg is pressing into the pole, nice and high near my hip, bracing my thigh against the pole in a nice aggressive thigh brace and my top leg I have the pole behind my knee, and I’m pulling. Again, that pushing and pulling technique that we can also do with our legs. With my top arm, I’m not going to try to resist and hold myself into the pole. Instead that arm is going to be nice and straight. Still pressing my thigh brace into the pole, my knee comes towards me keeping contact with my thighs, snapping my thighs closed, squeezing my gluts. Now looking at my right shoulder.
Make sure you’re not resisting the movement and trying to turn the shoulder towards the floor. That’s a shoulder injury waiting to happen. Make sure your chest and shoulders are nice and warm, so you can let your chest and shoulders have that openness that you need for a nice, safe superman. Squeezing the gluts you want the toes to be level with the hips or higher than the hips in a nice bowed position. Opposite arm would reach, this is one of the U.S. PDF amateur compulsory movements, so you want to make sure that you’re not cheating it and letting your feet go towards the floor.
Instead everything should be in a nice straight line or even bowing the toes up towards the ceiling, squeezing the gluts, inner thigh are squeezing the pole, and then coming down, of course on the floor. It’s a lot easier to come down, but you’ll see in my other videos there are multiple ways of coming down safely from your superman. One of my pet peeves however, is don’t just slam the feet down to the floor and Praise the Lord that you made it, because you may not make it.
