Ramon wrap

From Silkworms

"ramon" wrap

(s-lock)

the ramon wrap is basically a half-hitch tied around your waist. instead of tucking the end into the loop, you hold onto it, and hold your body in ways that make the tail bear against the standing part, so it stays wrapped. (this is the direction you normally wouldn't want to put torque on an actual half-hitch, i think, because it would tend to pull it open.) in short, it's basically the fabric wrapped once around your waist and then pulled back against the pole. the tail initially passes on the opposite side of the pole from your head, then comes back around on the same side as your head.

there are a lot of ways of getting into this position, some of which are pretty complicated; so i prefer to think of them separately from the position itself, which is relatively simple.

links:

• the seattle circus wiki seems to call this an s-lock, and describes the knee hook entry and abbreviated barrel roll here: http://www.byz.org/cgi-bin/SeattleCircusWiki?SsLockSetup
• the seattle circus wiki also describes what sounds like a very similar position but with the tail initially passing on the same side of the pole as your head, here: http://www.byz.org/cgi-bin/SeattleCircusWiki?FigureEight calling it a figure eight.