[Callers] Giving Weight

[Ron Blechner via Callers]

You don't find "nose-to-nose" makes some uncomfortable?
On Jun 25, 2015 10:48 AM, "Aahz Maruch via Callers" <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015, Rich Sbardella via Callers wrote:
> >
> > My main concern is how to acquire that tension/counterweight in a swing,
> if
> > you do not lean back.
>
> Let momentum do the work.  The way I teach swinging, I tell people to
> stand nose-to-nose.  Then I tell each of them to take a small half-step
> to the left.  If they twist, I tell them to go back to the nose-to-nose
> and explain that it is critical that they stay facing the same direction
> when they move left.  Then I have them go into ballroom hold and start
> walking forward, telling them to notice how the pressure of holding each
> other just naturally forces them into a circle.
>
> Particularly when I do this with people who've been twisting their
> bodies, they go, "Wow, it's a lot easier this way."
>
> When they start swinging a bit faster, that's when I talk about the
> giving weight aspect of swinging.  It's a matter of holding the swing
> together, and you just don't need the tension until they're moving fast.
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