Sharon Friedman – Vigilance and Tranquility

A good way to gain awareness to hight and distance is through using tools withing buildings. Low cielings and narrow corridors are venues to learn manipulation of long staffs and swords or a chain if you own the property ! Start by holding the staff in your hands. See how it moves as you hold the middle  than one end than both if you can. Start to move around holding the staff and gently slide the staff around the body as if you are deflecting hits or bodies in oyur way. See how far you reach with your posture and how you can play with that. Hit from above and below, straight and from the sides. Strike to your back and swipe at where you just were. Another way to gain freedom is to move the staff or any tool around you. First standing and than on the floor and while walking or climbing the stairs or anything else. For example if you hold your hands high and the tool pointing down you can still generate some force downward without hitting the cieling (that is if force is what is needed to open a door foe example)