'Wide-hand' floor entrance & exit (FEN/FEX) from seated
Floor-entrance (FEN) & floor-exit (FEX) patterns
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1m 8s
THE WHAT:
A variation on the fundamental ‘FEN/FEX from seated’, with which is it recommend to have already “embodied” through consistent practice before exploring this variation. The key difference here is in the mechanism & function of the arms upon entry/exit: whilst the primary ‘FEN/FEX from seated’ utilises a “folding” of the elbow which facilitates receiving the upper-body softly into the floor, this ‘wide-arm’ variation creates a rounded, half-arc of the back between the outstretched arm & hands along which it is possible to smoothly roll.
For this reason, the ‘wide-hand’ roll is more conducive to MOMENTARILY entering, and then immediately exiting, the floor in a quicker and more efficient manner than its arm-folding counterpart, which integrates more readily with ongoing floorwork patterns such as lateral rolling variations and other transitions.
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