Yes, I have socks off, I have to on the wood floors, I dont have carpet, it is better with socks off but still slips a bit. I am just doing this on teh small 3 ft wide throw rug, and for the 5th rite, my hands and feet are to just past the throw rug on the floor, which actually makes it easy to postiion properly, so if I slip I know to nudge those feet back to toes just touching the outside edge of the throw rug.

I could never do any push ups. Or pull ups. Well, maybe like one or two push ups when I was very young. For the heck of it the other day, on an off time from the five rites I mostly did one Dand as you describe, and yep, there is no way I could do more, maybe not ever, we will see, so I kind of completed one, enough that I get what you described and what you are doing. While there are some women who work out and could do it, there realy is a huge difference in upper body strength, I guy who is not in particularly great shape can do them, but an average woman who doesnt work out cannot