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A backbend is a gymnastics, contortion, dance and ice skating move, where the spine is bent backwards, and catching oneself with the hands. Throughout the move, the abdominal muscles , obliques , and legs are used to steady the performer while curving backwards.
A Marinelli bend is a backbend while supported only by a grip at the top of a short post that is held in the mouth. Splits and oversplits (a split of more than 180 degrees) may be included in frontbending or backbending acts. An oversplit may be performed while the feet are supported by two chairs or by two assistants.
According to a new study, flexibility is linked with living longer. Personal trainers and dietitians explain why—and how you can become more flexible.
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He points out learning to exercise rapid movement in the form and training from soft to hard and hard to soft movements. [4] The Shanghai Wu-style Fast Form kept the original fajin (release of power), jumping, attacking, and stamping movements. This advanced form was not originally taught openly.
Backbend asanas are yoga poses where the spine is arched backwards (extension) The main article for this category is Backbend . Pages in category "Backbend asanas"
Marinelli bend is a form of contortion posture in which the performer (most often female) supports their whole body weight only by biting onto a mouth grip attached to a short post in a backbend position with their buttocks sitting on their own head.
Colledge's coach, Jacques Gerschwiler, who was a former gymnastics teacher and according to Colledge "very progressive in his ideas", [2] got the idea for the upright spin while watching one of Colledge's trainers, a former circus performer turned acrobatics instructor, train Colledge to perform backbends "by means of a rope tied around her ...