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Joe archived the Long Spine on film a few times, including footage of Clara teaching it to a male student, Joe teaching it to Eve Gentry, and Romana performing it alongside her workout partner.

The archival version of the Long Spine is very similar to the archival version of the Roll Over in the Matwork. Both exercises take the legs outside the frame of the body, and both have been documented with a slight pause when the legs reach a right angle, prior to peeling the spine off the carriage/mat.

Back when Romana taught me this exercise, she called it the Long Spine Massage, she emphasized lifting the seat before the legs reached a right angle as a way to avoid “riding the springs” and she taught it to me with the legs staying more within the frame of the body.

I think both approaches are very different from each other, yet I can see how each one is useful and beneficial. For me, the archival version emphasizes the articulation and massage of the spine and the classical version emphasizes the strengthening of the seat and hamstrings (much like the Airplane exercise on the Cadillac).