I was looking at a movie review and, giving one still shot more than a passing glance, I realize that my arms/hands don’t bend that way. They don’t bend that way now, I doubt they ever bent that way in my more flexible youth, and it is so far from a pose I can perform that I’m actually having a hard time wrapping my mind around it.
I’m not very flexible and I have no problem bending that way. I have to wonder if the OP is trying to fold his hands down forward (which I do find impossible to do) instead of flipping them up backwards.
Flipping them backwards the deepest I can rotate results in my pinky fingernails touching my eye orbit. To twist my hands around further is literally impossible.
That pose doesn’t necessarily use muscular movements to pose the hands - if you rotate them as far as they will go, then hook your fingers under your chin as you continue moving your arms back and upward, the wrist will rotate beyond the point that muscles will normally pull it.
Or at least it used to work that way. I can only do it with one hand now - the other one doesn’t want to play
I can do that basic pose, though when I do it my elbows are still pointing a little forwards, rather than the straight line side to side that actress appears to be doing.
I probably could have in my younger days, when I was more flexible, though.
I can’t do it, but it feels like with gradual stretching I might be able to; or that I might have been able to do it as a child but I had no reason to keep it up with the required amount of stretching.
It’s kind of like being able to squat without raising your heels. Most people can do this as children, but they don’t do it on a regular basis and so their tendons (or whatever it is) tighten up so that they can’t do it as adults. But in locations where people still squat to poop instead of sitting on a toilet, pretty much everyone can do it.
Ahhh that’s a good stretch. I’ve been crocheting for a couple of hours and that was just exactly the stretch my hands and wrists needed. Easy to do, but I could feel it especially in the middle-pinky fingers. I’ll have to do that more often. But I hope I remember not to do it in public. LOL!