Party Tricks

[Concerned Mummy]

Hi all,

I have searched but cant find a thread anywhere where everyone specifically lists their "party tricks" (as Prof Bird calls them) or what they know others with hypermobility can do.

Just last night i remembered something i used to do as a child with my brother and decided to see if i could do it. My partner thought it was freaky and could not do it, yet I never even knew that "normal" people couldn't do it.

IT was getting each of my fingers and putting them across the one next to it. e.g., second finger goes over the fore finger, while third finger is over the second finger and little finger over the third finger, with both hands.

Also what about holding your hands flat in the air and being able to (without any help) separate your first two fingers from your last finger and third finger, so u have made a kind of V sign. Or doing it so you separate your first finger, then have your two middle fingers and then separate your little finder so you have a sort of W sign?

Others I can think of are getting my ankles behind my head, having knees that bend backwards, joining my hands up behind my back with one hand going over my shoulder and the other going from the bottom of my back, erm... what else, standing up and lowering yourself backwards into a crab position and then getting back up again.

I just wondered what everyone else had found out they could do that other people cant and see if there's any other things i assumed everyone could do when really its only hypermobile people that can.

[dragondee]

Yes concerned mummy, I can do that with my fingers(one on top of the other, both hands)
We do the 'V' and 'W' in Pilates commonly called 'Spocks' and 'Kirks'.
My knees bend backwards.
I can also cross all four fingers middle over index, ring over little, both hands.
My particular 'party trick' is to sit on the floor with legs outstreched and knees touching, then to turn the soles of my feet to touch each other without moving the knees (I have quite hypermobile ankles).
Can join the hands to each other behind my back - some normal people can do this (maybe they can only just touch fingertips).
Can't do the ankles behind the head and could never put my palms flat on the floor.
I alway used to sit in the 'W' position cos it was very comfy, but we should not do that apparently. (in the prof's book)

Can't think of any more for the minute

Dragondee

[Englishgremlin1]

I can do the hand to hand thing over my bck and go palm to palm. Also have very mobile jaw - can mover it totally offline (by a 2 or 3 inches) - that feaks people!!

No sure if this common but can ge my hands for do a 360 degree turn as well. can be very useful.

[bendytwistything]

I can do these too. I can also stand with my knees facing forwards and turn my feet outwards until they face behind me and can put my knees over my shoulders. I'm very bendy in general though.

[dremcatcher]

yes I can do all of theese too, well apart from the thing that bendytwistything can do with her feet (I think if I tried I would fallover lol) although I do have a bad habit of walking on my ankles without realising.

In my gymnastics days I would be able to to go backwards into a crab position and then up into a handstand although I wouldn't like to try it now I think I would dislocate too many things!

As a kid I also used to freak people out by popping my thumbs in and out from just about any angle and wiggling the tips of my fingers without moving the rest of them! ahh the things we did as kids lol

[dremcatcher]

yes I can do all of theese too, well apart from the thing that bendytwistything can do with her feet (I think if I tried I would fallover lol) although I do have a bad habit of walking on my ankles without realising.

In my gymnastics days I would be able to to go backwards into a crab position and then up into a handstand although I wouldn't like to try it now I think I would dislocate too many things!

As a kid I also used to freak people out by popping my thumbs in and out from just about any angle and wiggling the tips of my fingers without moving the rest of them! ahh the things we did as kids lol

[in_the_dark]

wiggle my wingers side to side until all knuckles crack.

move thumb side to side to put it back in when it comes out on its own

[christianne]

Found out by accident at a drunken party game that I can pick up a bottle top from the floor with my teeth(by sort of nearly doing the splits). Beat the young lithe looking teeny skinny girls into submission haha, striking a blow for the wobbly a**ed women everywhere!
Christianne

[in_the_dark]

u go girl

[loosebones]

ooh I like this one -

i can walk through my clasped hands
carry stuff between my shoulderblades
unhinge my wrist, jaw and shoulders easily
sit in the W position no probs
stand with one leg above my head
crunch every disc in my back and neck
hold a bar behind my back and without letting it go, get it through to the front with both arms outstretched (freaked my cousins out the other day)
manipulate my skin with ease - can fold over the skin on my knees to completely cover it again!
twist my fingers any and every way
turn my tongue upside down
ft my fist in my mouth
dislocate everything and put it back again
clasp arms behind back
pull kneecap off and float it around
getting up from the floor when sitting in a heap without using my hands
twisting my head nearly all the way round

think that's enough for now!

[in_the_dark]

twisting my head nearly all the way round

exorsist twist minus the split pea soup

[sarahh]

Hi here is my list I wouldn't even attempt to do these now.

Sit in the W position.
Crunch and crack my big toes.
Walk on my knees
Something strange where the bones go in on my fingers
Feet over my head
Do the crab position
Bring my thumbs back over the first finger joint
Thumbs back to wrists
Clasp hands behind back

Can't think of anymore at the mo.

Sarah x

[Spireite]

I can do the fingers stuff, hands behind the back palm to palm and the crab still (impressed myself at my age!)

[wen]

My son and his cousin were playing police and she handcuffed my son's hands behind his back.

Son freaked everyone out by bringing his still hancuffed wrists over his head, so that he was holding his handcuffed hands in front of himself.

Wen

[Fiona-Jane]

i have photos of mine!!!

hehehe!


my spine is so flexible that these dont hurt me, and my discs (between the vertebrae) are huuuge so they allow for some pretty impressive flexibility!

i have tons of other party pieces but these are my fav's at the moment. and ironically, i feel healthier, happier and stronger when i regularly do these positions, and my pain level decreases...... so my dr says 'do them then'!

but of course, i dont recommend them- im dead strong and have learned to do these over years of acrobatics training..... please dont hurt yourself!!!


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