02-04-2004, 01:54 PM
I used to be very envious of girls because of the appearance of great flexibility which I equate with freedom/flow/self-mastery. When I say "flexibility," I don't mean the elasticity of muscles I mean it in the sense of joint motion and body flow and that sort of thing.
The thing is, I always used to ask myself "if women are so flexibile where do they store their 'issues' of which they have so many?" :roll: Then one day I watched a girl whom I considered to have perfect posture in a swimming pool and saw the enormous rotation of her spine when she did the breaststroke. As I watched more and more I began to see that they simply stored their tension in a different manner, and just because they could do the splits didn't mean that they weren't stiff as a board in other planes.
It really hit me hard the other night when I was showing my girlfriend the "arm screws" figuring it would be super easy for her and block any further inquiry as to my activities. 8) She started to do them and so I was obligated to do it until she got it. She couldn't keep her feet in the proper positions though and eventually I left her on her own reconaissance.
The next day she is dancing around the kitchen eager to show me the movement. She had been practicing and loved it! Now I was really obligated to make sure her feet weren't shuffling all over the place. She just couldn't get it. So, I stepped on her stationary foot so she couldn't move it and I felt the tension in the leg. Then, "pop!" and the joint made a release noise. Suddenly she got it. Even more importantly, I got it--the fact that often a woman's tension is not obvious to the eye. Today she called me and wants to learn more. So, I told her I would lend her my videos. :twisted:
The thing is, I always used to ask myself "if women are so flexibile where do they store their 'issues' of which they have so many?" :roll: Then one day I watched a girl whom I considered to have perfect posture in a swimming pool and saw the enormous rotation of her spine when she did the breaststroke. As I watched more and more I began to see that they simply stored their tension in a different manner, and just because they could do the splits didn't mean that they weren't stiff as a board in other planes.
It really hit me hard the other night when I was showing my girlfriend the "arm screws" figuring it would be super easy for her and block any further inquiry as to my activities. 8) She started to do them and so I was obligated to do it until she got it. She couldn't keep her feet in the proper positions though and eventually I left her on her own reconaissance.
The next day she is dancing around the kitchen eager to show me the movement. She had been practicing and loved it! Now I was really obligated to make sure her feet weren't shuffling all over the place. She just couldn't get it. So, I stepped on her stationary foot so she couldn't move it and I felt the tension in the leg. Then, "pop!" and the joint made a release noise. Suddenly she got it. Even more importantly, I got it--the fact that often a woman's tension is not obvious to the eye. Today she called me and wants to learn more. So, I told her I would lend her my videos. :twisted: