Straddle planche form check

[near turret]

Just wondering if this is acceptable form or close to it, any advice is welcome!

[restive pewter]

you didn't really hold it for time but you're so damn close to your first hold

it looks like you fall into retraction btw try to focus on protraction

[winter ridge]

Also it seems like your left arm is slightly bent. Can you lean into a straddle or have you always gone from a tuck and extended into a straddle

[scarlet cargo]

I don’t see bent arms like effie said, but you should work on reverse hyperextensions because your hips are a few degrees off from being completely open.

And piking is an indicator of you not being ready for it yet, I suggest to lay off on the attempts and work on hypertrophy and more adv. tuck.

[restive pewter]

i think the right arm has hyperextension

so the left arm may not be locked out

[winter ridge]

That's what I was referring too ^^^
It's an easy detail to miss.
Assuming both arms hyperextend, seems like the right arm is hyperextended & locked meanwhile the left one isn't to support the rest of the body

[winter ridge]

To be honest, as someone who had a piked straddle. If you've got a decent piked straddle for a solid amount of time, easily getting 5+ seconds without much effort, I think it'd be more productive to train banded full planche and work on having good form with that.

Pike in straddle sometimes is more of an issue with hip mobility and not really strength. The effort spent trying to correct that might be better spent actually training full since those mobility gains don't matter much in full

That being said, a straight line straddle looks very cool. And hip mobility & flexibility are also pretty useful and important