30 Tips for Contortion Careers
Want to be a top CONTORTIONIST, here is your bible, 29 tips for a long and safe contortion career:
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Want to be a top CONTORTIONIST, here is your bible, 29 tips for a long and safe contortion career:
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The split, an exercise especially popular among girls, was discussed several times in this magazine.
In order to stretch to our greatest capacity, it is tremendously important to focus on several places in the body at once.
Occasionally I get requests for a description of how I have achieved and maintained my limberness.
The art of contortion has been with us for centuries. As far back as the middle ages, one can read glowing accounts of the performances of court favorites, who twisted and turned their bodies in such a way as to produce strange and difficult patterns. Read More
An old but very useful book Download PDF
Unfortunately in Australia, as in many countries a Contortionist is looked upon and regarded as some sort of freak. The most popular theory of the uninformed is that all contortionists are unfortunate enough to be born double jointed, this of course is ridiculous. Read More
During these trying times it is not amis to revive the old saw that contortionists are the only ones who can make both ends meet. But what has become of the "benders" as they are called in the profession? Read More
Photo Legend (clockwise from top left): 'Photo 1' - Miss Barlow was X-rayed in this position ; 'Photo 2' - The X-ray taken from the position shown in Photo 1 (notice how the vertebrae don't scrape together, but the muscles and ligaments in the spine allow the vertebrae to stretch farther apart than usual) Read More
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