The wall "Undercut"
Floor-entrance (FEN) & floor-exit (FEX) patterns
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1m 18s
THE WHAT:
A 2-point, ipsilateral (i.e. same side hand/foot) wall-supported transition pattern which practices “threading” the body under and through itself. A significant part of this practice, then, is developing the STRUCTURAL AWARENESS to support one’s structure with only two points of support. In this scenario, ipsilateral is generally less familiar and can feel less stable than contralateral (i.e. OPPOSITE hand & foot), and so a certain level of shoulder range & stability is both requested, and developed, within the context itself.
Whilst generally used a preparatory movement to develop patterning and structural awareness for the floor-based ‘Undercut’, a transitional movement for entering immediately into floor-contact from a quadrupedal position in which the challenge to stability and structure is even greater, it also stands alone as a WALL-contact transition, available for integration with other wall-contact patterns.
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