Get injured by yanking their bodies into awkward positions and dismiss load vs capacity. This has been known to happen in the pole world when we attempt Bird of Paradise, Rainbow Marchenko, Buibui.

Don’t necessarily know how to stretch and/or believe there is only one way of stretching. I.e. Aerialists opting for contortionist flexibility type of training and not realizing your body may respond better to another approach.

Trying to make years of stretching and flexibility training happen overnight. Those in maintenance mode have the physicality to speed up the process, however if you’re not genetically flexible it can take over 3 months.