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Progress comes in small steps but realization of it comes in leaps and bounds of imagination once we are clear enough to realize where we are and what we can know from the vantage point. For example you work on moving with your partner for a while on merging with his levers to avoid becoming…
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Take a simple water bottle and half fill it. Hold first the narrow tip and slowly move it around you over the head and drawing shapes in the air. Keep the surface of the water perfectly still and your wrist alighned with your forearm. Mind the change in your work afterwards and remember to relax…
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I prefer to work barefoot or with light moccasins. Others depend on their Crocks in the farm for irrigation and quick cleaning and the list goes on and on. Do your regular work with different footwear than what you have in mind and see how you can roll and turn and squat with dancing shoes…
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Learning to walk may start with stumbling which is fine and the logical thing to do is to clean out the stumbling from the walk once we are able to. Start with a partner and a stick. Look forward and up and tense and relax shoulders and hips a few times. Now start walking slowly…
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For this drill you will need a stick and a partner. Place the partner in the static push up position and stand comfortably close to him or her. Now at the same time press the stick to his body so he needs to move so he is not impaled and at the same time kick…
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Place your fist flat on your partner’s palm and move it from the elbow and than from the shoulder as your partner simply relaxes and lets his palm follow you around. Now reverse the drill and as he moves his palm you match his movement by choosing how to move so there is alignment in…
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Take a knife and hold it on the flat of the blade and lean the tip of it on a wall or any hard object like a tree. Slowly increase how much you lean on the blade and when it makes sense release the tension and repeat in a different hold. Play with different holds…