Double pirate figure eight drop

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double pirate figure eight drop:

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this is a variant on the figure eight drop. jill maio showed it to me, and said it was from necca but didn't have a name; she made up the name for it on the spot when i asked what it was called.

start from the setup for a figure eight drop. then lean back, rotating around the hip support until your back is against the poles. reach up and cross the poles behind you, as if setting up for crossed-silk straddle invert; in fact lean back into the cross and straddle and invert just as the same as that move.

then, to drop, hold the tail over your shoulder and lean forward, reversing what you just did. your legs will need to be apart when coming out of the straddle invert, then together to dive between the fabrics in the original figure eight drop part.

uses/builds on: figure eight drop, crossed-silk straddle invert