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Description
Pinkie pie knows how to keep her body nice and flexible! Free to move and bounce like no one else can!
I see. Interesting.
Her*
The pose requires large oversplits and backbend flexibility. The leg on the floor has the hamstring area and gleuteus maximus muscles stretched. The leg on hed shoulder has the quad area and hip flexor muscles stretched. She also has a large backbend which requires flexibility in the torso and in the muscles around the spine. This allows her spine to curl upwards.
Basically a lot of practice to make the muscles flexible.
How does she do that?
Mhmm, and it demonstrates the exact same thing, only the hind leg is bend a little over 90 degrees. Her back being almost folded in two is what makes the split look so extreme compared to the other one.
Here is another example.
Considering Pinkie’s probably made of rubber, it doesn’t bother me that much.
From what I can understand, this is a hip rotation. Her thigh is the round flank, her “foot” is the long straight portion of her leg, and her calf is what connects the two. The leotard really highlights which part of her leg is which.
But her hip joint is bent a whole 270 degrees backwards. Not even humans can bend their legs that far, even for a 270 degree oversplit. At most, it gets to a bit over 90 degrees - the front leg does most of the work.
As you can see here, this is almost 270 degrees, but 180 degrees is being done by her front leg - it’s pointing straight up from her hip. The remaining 70-80 degrees is being done by the hind leg, which doesn’t really bend that much more than a regular 180 degree split.
To fix this, Pinkie’s back leg of the split would have to be straightened, and her hip probably rotated forwards a little. The leg doesn’t have to be perfectly straight: about the same as her other leg would work.
I do love seeing contortionist ponies, and I do think that Pinkie would make for a great contortionist, but the anatomy on this kind of makes my leg a little sore. I understand this is probably a limitation of the artist’s knowledge, and pony anatomy certainly is different from human anatomy, so I do admire the attempt… but that one detail is a bit of a problem in my eyes.