Liv Hip Transitions, freebie, 2 minutes

[Kit_L]

 https://vimeo.com/kitlaughlin/livhiptransitions

 

(From the program description on Vimeo):

 

A little something made in Friendly Park, right in front of our apartment here in London, on a cold morning. Shot on iPhone 6+, edited in FCPX.

 

We intend to make a huge number of programs when we get home. Liv has been working on transitions—a staple of her "Dynamic Forms" which ran for years at the Australian National University facility in Canberra. It is easy to lose sight of these gems in all the new stuff we are doing, but these kind of transitions (immensely strengthening as well as stretching) have been part of the work for 15 years.

 

I have been working on ballistics (the "90-day challenge on the Forums) and our new variant, "pulsing", for the last two months or so. There is a massive difference between pulsing and ballistics and I feel for most people pulsing is the most efficient way to introduce movement to one's stretching—moving it from static to dynamic.

 

Watch this space!

[Jim Pickles]

Off to try it now! Thanks!

[jon.valentine]

I'm really looking forward to seeing them. The dynamic forms class was always fun and challenging, I remember trying to do ~15mins of TV pose transitions just absolutely wrecking me (in a good way!)

[MT Nordic]

very nice.  thank you Liv.

[Kit_L]

That was something we shot in the cold as a teaser; the full sequence is between 12–18 minutes long—and is a hip fryer. There are two, interesting and related aspects: IF you are loose, then it's a precision strength and alignment exercise, with a lot of work being done by the arms—but if you are male and tighter, the work that the adductors have to do over time is brutal, as is the DOMS! But the active flexibility is worth the effort, in my view. Liv and I will shoot a "duet" when we get back (this will fill the HD 16:9 frame nicely!).