here are my progress over the straddle L, i admit that i really really really hate this skill, i can do it better on the floor then on the pbars. since the last seminar after very different exercises for manage the split ad pancake..the compression is finally better then before, i noticed that expecially if i put the hand as in the second pic, before there was no way to lift my hips higher.
this is 8 months ago, also using fingers pointed backward the hips level was the same