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.

Handstand, Getting The Hips Over The Hands First

I am posting this version of handstand so that I can show a little more clearly the process of getting the hips over the hands first before trying to come the rest of the way up to balance. In this footage, when I jumped, I let my right leg lag behind and waited until my hips were centered over my hands before trying to bring that right leg up. But it is also worth noting that, when I jump, I am not trying to get the left leg over my hands either. I am just focused on getting my hips over my hands. Once that happens the balance falls into place and the legs come up in a nice controlled manner.