Half lock climb

From Silkworms

half lock climb (elsie's climb):

(opposite side hip key climb)

(needs photos)

this is nearly the reverse of the same side climb: instead of climbing into the thigh-wrapped hip key and swimming under the tail to make it (essentially) a scissors hip key, you climb directly into the scissors hip key.

from opposite side knee hook, throw the tail over your opposite-side shoulder (i.e. the same side as the hooked knee), climb up the pole and key into it. now you are in scissors hip key. pose. then walk hands up the pole, hang free, and repeat.

links: i learned this climb from elsie smith, who attributed it to herself. so i've used the name she listed in the notes she gave out as its primary name, though "opposite side hip key climb" fits more with my usual cumbersome nomenclature. "half lock climb" does make me start to want to think about naming the different kinds of hip keys, though...

this climb consists of iterating the second method of getting into the scissors hip key as described on the seattle circus wiki under the name "hip lock" here: http://www.byz.org/cgi-bin/SeattleCircusWiki?HipLock

here is a youtube video of this climb