Bakasana, Crow Pose, Floating Into and Out of Pose Slowly
The idea with this video clip is to see how jumping, or really floating, into and out of crow pose can be done slowly with control if you keep your weight over your hands so that you can stay balanced for as long as possible in the float.
In my commentary on this video I was trying to get across the idea that while the jumps are slow, the tape is at regular speed. I had a friend suggest that I do a video where I slow motion the video so you can really see the jumps. And what I decided to do instead was to make this video where I was doing the jumps and going very slowly so that you can see how the jumps can actually be about floating, slowly, rather than being about jumping.
posted by upsidedowncarl at 2/14/2009 01:49:00 PM
3 Comments:
hi Carl,
Thanks for this video. It's helpful. Is the video in slow motion?
One tip I was told for jumping into crow was to try to jump more straight forward rather than very high up. Do you think that is a good strategy for someone who is still trying to get this pose?
-Kim
8:23 PM, February 14, 2009
Hey Kim,
I am glad you like the videos.
As far as the slow motion thing is concerned, I guess my comments were trying to be clear but were not exactly. The video is at regular speed. What I was implying was that, instead of making the film go in slow motion I would do the floats slowly so that the movements were slow, but not because the video had been slowed down.
As far as whether you jump high or not, my feeling with jumping into crow is that if you are just jumping forward and aiming your knees onto your arms it is not really such a useful movement. It is not so hard to do. But it does not teach your body how to control and slowly land, placing the knees softly, with control, where you want to.
If you can stop in mid-air and simply place the knees down softly where you want them to be, then you have the control of FLOATING, stopping yourself before you land, and placing your knees where and how you want. So from my perspective, I would work on the skills of trying to stop in midair and change directions and then trying to stop in midair and hover; and then after working on hovering a little, trying to place the knees softly onto the arms.
If you do it this way, it does not matter if you jump high or low or somewhere in between. The point of it, in my opinion, from my perspective, is not whether you can jump forward and aim your knees so they land on your arms. The point would be that you can place them slowly, with control, softly, onto the arms and that you are placing them, pretty much where you want to. Or, to put it another way, that you have control and you are balanced and able to hold yourself even before you put your knees down.
But you have given me an idea for another video on how to develop that because it is not so hard to work on. There are some easy steps that would someone move towards what I am talking about and they would undoubtedly make your balance in crow pose improve considerably. Your jumps in Sun Salutations and your and developing skills like balancing in handstand would also likely improve. Whereas, simply jumping the knees onto the arms as a result of having good aim, probably would not do much to improve your ability to do crow pose, jumps in Sun Salutations or other arm or hand balancing poses like forearm stand or handstand.
Peace.
UpSideDown
11:43 PM, February 14, 2009
Thank you for this video!
10:15 AM, December 08, 2009
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