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On the Body Pump forum a few weeks back there was a thread regarding obsolete techniques and the mention of the Revolution magazine (Asia/pacific i belive) which ran an article on what releases we should not be teaching and modifications that should now be used. Does anyone know if there is anything in body balance that should now not be taught, Just thought i would ask as here in the uk we always seem to be the last to know!!!

Thanks in advance

Doesn't ring a bell... but I do recall something in regards to poses not covered by our insurance.  Not sure when or where that was though.

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Come on, there got to be some changes. 

 

If I am correct, long time ago when you do the Tai-Chi Wu-Chi pose (Chinese Horse stand), we try to lower our body as much as we can.  Now, we focus on Safety first, with knee towards toes and straight back.   So, some old poses are obselete.

 

Isn't this similar to Cobra, which legs are together or hip-width apart?

 

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Hi there :)

There are two that come to mind we don't do full locust pose anymore we do 1/2 locust pose now. "Ain't it Funny" BB 18 has had a change from then to BB 24 which changed a majority of the original choreographjy to something new.

There is also American Pie by Madonna. There were some modifications to the choreography for that track.

Essentially you can teach all the releases except the Yoga Based track ones pre BB 10 .

Hope this helps?

Having trained on a recent release (39) and then going back and teaching older releases there are definitely some changes in certain poses. Not so much that old poses are obsolete but more the emphasis on cueing for safety has changed.

The main things I have noticed are cueing to always contract the abs strongly in any forward fold and to ensure lots of knee bend when transitioning from mountain to forward fold in sun sals. Also to emphasise contraction of the gluteals in cobra and updog. In twists there is a lot more emphasis on using muscles to twist rather than using the arms as levers. Back tracks have always emphasised gluteal contraction but even more so in recent releases. 

All of these are designed to protect the low back. As long as recent advances in cueing for safety are taken back to the older releases I have not found any obsolete poses as yet! But I still have a lot of releases that I haven't taught!!

Sam