Back Flexibilty

[Guest Ballet4babs]

Does anyone know how to increase back flexibility for combra back? Anything will help! Thanks!

 

~Ballet4babs~

[Mel Johnson]

Do you mean cambré? The answer is to do more of them. Be sure that you release your abdominal muscles across your front in order to allow the back to have as full travel as it may. It's difficult to move in one direction when you have a set of muscles pulling you back in the opposite direction!

[Guest Ballet4babs]

Thanks, I'll try to do and remember that!

 

Ballet4babs

Edited January 30, 2005 by Ballet4babs

[eryn]

Do you mean cambré?  The answer is to do more of them.  Be sure that you release your abdominal muscles across your front in order to allow the back to have as full travel as it may.  It's difficult to move in one direction when you have a set of muscles pulling you back in the opposite direction!

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hi. i'm a bit confused by what you said Mr. Johnson. because when my teacher asks us to do a cambré, he asks us to pull up. So my question is what is the difference between pulling up and contracting abdominal muscles?

 

sorry if this is kind of a stupid question x|

[Mel Johnson]

You have to work the muscles dynamically. Yes, you pull inward and upward in a cambré, but in bending back, the front has to stretch a certain amount, then release, all the while keeping the same amount of stretch going on until you reach the full travel of the cambré. Try this as an illustration - hold your arms bent in front of you at about chest height. Hook the fingers together, and try to pull each arm against the other. Then let the hooked hands travel right and left, all the while keeping the pull going in both directions. See, you never stop pulling in both directions at the same time, but you have range of travel!