Half lock climb

From Silkworms

half lock climb (elsie's climb):

(opposite side hip key climb)

this is nearly the reverse of the same side climb: instead of climbing into the same side 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. note that you turn into the fabric with the shoulder that's holding the tail on the bottom-- you're really just holding it so that it lays nicely across the hip which is now on top. 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 listed in the notes she gave out as its primary name, though "opposite side hip key climb" fits more with my usual cumbersome nomenclature. i've since heard that i may have misread those notes! so now i'm a bit uncertain about the naming...

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