I gave this a go today and yes I’m having a similar challenge to Danica. It looks like the ratio of the zigs and zags of the free strand bit of my wrap in the passe to back balance position is different to Rachel’s. So then the distance between my two poles as I rotate round is much greater for me (the top of the zig zag is much smaller for Rachel). Then when I arrive in the back balance position the pole on the foot lock side isn’t coming away from my waist as it does for Rachel, it is about half way down my thigh. Which then makes it a) hard to make the pose there and to climb above for the salto, and b) also makes it hard when I arrive in the archer shape to reach far enough back with my arch and head to reach the pole behind (because the pole is much further back on the foot lock side because it’s coming out of mid thigh rather than top of thigh). I’m wondering if I actually have too much slack when I throw the loop around at the beginning, or if I’m grabbing in the wrong place height wise before I twist? Do all those many words make sense?! Ha ha. Ideas? Thanks guys 🙂 Here is a very obvious demonstration here: https://www.silksstars.com/community/caro/media/4741/
