This is Jit Ray, executing the fantastically high locust. He has just started yoga, a few months ago, and already doing a steady though short headstand, does the titali (leg-locked) headstand variation, walks in the wheel, lifts hands and legs in the wheel, does bhumisirsapadasparshasana (the earth touching head-toe pose) and a very strong crow and is moving into exciting variations of the crow/arm balancers. He is very flexible, and only has an issue with the halasana/plough. I used to think that it was an imagined issue (his wife Rima occasionally complains about her halasana and I thought he was responding with the usual empathy of a loving husband:) .. but when u see this execution of a marvellously high locust u know that yes, there might be a neck-muscle stiffness that comes from sheer strength. Sometimes a strong muscle can also be a very stiff muscle!! So here it is... then both strength and flexibility but a bit of a compromise in a certain pose... and now he is going to get through that too. And then, no stopping him:)
The fact that I can tell him to focus on the upper back muscles and chin and lift into the locust from there, and he can actually do that... U know he is in the yoga zone... that is a lucky student. And I, a lucky teacher, to have such a one....
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awesome!Good going Jit! I think I should show this picture to all the men here in the US who seem to think Yoga is a 'woman' thing.Part of the blame goes to all the glossy yoga magazines that almost always have female models.
About 2 weeks or so back, I was watching the Guiness Records program (forgot the channel), where a guy did just this. I think from the angle, it appears that Jit's is much more vertical than what the Guiness guy (and he "won" the title!) did...
I am also quite amazed at the angle. In fact, I have not seen such a vertical angle even by accident in any book so far... Of course at my 51years of age I am not about to feel jealous of the guy :)
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-feltra
Yes, this is very high. But quite a few of my students do a great execution of this .. mine is rather low I am afraid, but Sharmishta and Rima also do a high locust.. I think it is something to do with a bengali diet! Mustard oil? Sharmishta thinks it may be the fish! Rima has a degenerated spine (she thinks:) and may be even that!! ha ha! I myself think it is focus.. power to them!
heheheheh... yeah must be the fishy diet. im quite amazed at the angle myself. had no clue that i go up that high in salabhasana. inshallah someday the devil that sits around my shoulder shall bless me with a good halasana :) ...
Now don't be dramatic Jit-- why`some day'... u almost touched the feet in halasana -- two inch off the ground, and in the morning, when the body is super stiff.. so i don't think some day, maybe next week!
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