Sure thing!
1) While in many forward rotation drops you can hold an arch and it will move you around, since the legs are weighted very differently in this one, having an active say in the rate of the rotation will help keep the legs moving together as you can check in with them at the start of each rotation. Once you release the hands from the poles, press/kick the toes forward briefly before kicking/arching back. This brief active forward kick acts like the bend of the knees before a jump and gives you a more active role in the rotation rate and what the legs are doing. In practice, you are most likely able to see you toes before kicking them back. In Brandon’s video, this looks like the legs staying in place (so so so briefly) as the shoulders move forward.
In your video, the legs look like they move well together, brava!
2) This idea is key in the second forward rotation, however, the timing can be different of when you actively press/kick the legs in the arch to complete the sit up. As the shoulders are passing the poles, kick forward to prep, fall, and as the toes pass the poles, then use your power to kick the heels back, pressing the back of the thighs strong into the wrap, opening the hips actively even as the shoulders lift to sit up. Although it looks the like the hips are hinging, the leg power pressing down/back into the hip wrap cannot relax as the shoulders come up. If that pressure releases, the sit up loses it’s lever to get your shoulders to the pole. One of the magical hard things about aerial training is not knowing what you need until you actually feel it, even when you are working as hard as you know how to. It’s tough!!
Two other variables to play with in the wrap as mentioned above to Janice. For the second forward salto sit up, the low back wrap has to pass the hips to get under the thighs. That is a lot. So you can play with wrapping from the hip key a little looser so there is play in the wrap for that piece of the lock to pass the hips. You can also play with the angle of the wrap across the back of the hips before wrapping the leg.
3) For the back salto, reaching the arms overhead *even if they don’t make it!* is going to serve you better in the long term. As soon as you reach the hands back to grab, the hips hinge forward and the shoulders stop rotating upright. The arms reach back and then up! And while it might feel wild to not catch, the other option has not worked well for your shoulder so far so that method has got to go. Since this wrap really has you, falling forward will be ok. It’ll keep your shoulder from catching something it may not be able to and it will keep you working on the pathway you do want to groove into your training. The active reach of the arms back and up timed with pressing the hips firmly into the wrap and pressing/kicking the toes forward will eventually give you the height to feel the pole at your shoulder, arms will be overhead and the legs will support the body so the shoulders aren’t doing all the work of catching the landing.
Boom boom on the neck braced balance! Way to gooooooo!
Happy training!