If I boil things down, the challenges my improvers face when freestanding are of two natures:
- An alignment mistake
Your kick-up is good, placing you in a desirable line. Your fingers are doing exactly the right thing but after 5 seconds of honest fight, for no apparent reason, your leg or pelvis starts moving on its own, remembering the inextricable pull of gravity.
Here, an unwanted change in the position of one of your limb created the fall.
- A balancing mistake
Your kick-up is good, placing you in a desirable line. You push and relax your fingers, focusing hard on not moving anything else in your body⊠but you push a bit too hard, or relax a bit too late. Next thing you know, youâre falling, with very little room to recover from it.
In that case, the line only changed as a consequence of a mistake in the timing or the intensity with which you were pushing on your fingers.
Both scenarios need to be carefully examined to see how exactly they manifest in your case:
- is your initial pushing always a bit too strong, forcing you to timber? Or do you miss the timing of the second push, leading you to bail systematically?
- are you legs recurringly dancing salsa in the air?
- are your legs twitching in despair in the air, not too sure whether they should tense or relax?
In other words,
What kind of alignment mistakes do you make, and what kind of finger pushing mistake do you make?
The best drill to assess this is freestanding, but it can also be done when need be B2W (ideally at balancing distance).
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