19 steps of wall hopping, shoulder torture and jailbreak

I was late with my blog duty, so I'll just condense the notes from friday and monday together in this post...

MIME:

Heel-heel, Toe-Toe walk:
Sideways slide walk with triangular feet... I hope someone gets what i mean.

We extended the wall hoppping excercesise with 14 more steps (into a total of 19)

First five:

- Look up.

-Pose for jump.

-Jump (on toes, reach up, hands straight, shoulders down)

-Grab the wall (hands go horizontal, fixed point)

-Drop (heels go down, shoulders up, hands stay flat on fixed point)

and 14 more:

-Pose for pulling your self up (shoulders down, heels go up)

-Pull your self up (hands go down till shoulder, arm paralel to body)

-One elbow goes up

-Other elbow goes up

-Push your self further up (hands go down flat, arms straighten, heels go down again and shoulders come up)

-Lift one foot

-Put foot on wall (keep it in line with hands)

-Pull the body over the wall.

-Push wall down with hands and foot (keep the straight line)

-Lift the hand closer to legs.

-Put other foot down where hand was

-Lift other hand

-Get ready for jump

-Jump! ("stay in the air..." and throw your hands in the air)

Be carefull with fixed points and keep hands PERFECTLY flat!

Mime walk No.1:

Whoohoo... I'll try to break this down.

One foot steps forward (both legs straight, heel down, foot flexed, lowest position of head) 

Other leg bends, as the foot in front goes back (heel stays down all the way back, highest head position)

Well that is pretty much it. Just make sure that your arms follow the legs (opposite arms)

Ice Skating

It is esentially the sideward leg swing excercise that we do as a warm up....

When the foot moves to the side it remains flexed and goes while the hips turn out slightly.

As the foot comes back forward the other foot is being thursted out to the side.

Note that the head should not be moving up and down (keep knees bent)


Some new STRETCHES:


We learned a few new couple stretches...

The Shoulder Torture:


One sits on a chair while the other pushes the tensions in the shoulders with elbows and lower arms.

and the Ass Grabbing Thigh Stretch:


Pulling feet back while lying on the floor to stretch thigh while partner help with pushing hips down/forward and pulling the thighs up.

Notes from the day 1 - 2 - 3 (Part One)

Hello Dears!

Here is a summery of the first 3 days. I'm making retrospective notes according to themes (more or less) and not days... I wrote everything that I remembered and/or was significant to mention.

The Zen Tissue: (we all know...)

Relax-Concentrate-Visualize!

Works in different speeds, good for checking state of self

Walks: Walking fast, with long steps, walking on different parts of the feet (inside-outside-heels-toes), changing foot postions after 8-4-2 steps, and the confusing inside-toes, outside-heels combination.

"Idiot Says Hi": Bringing the knees slightly up to the side, with the feet pointing down, then shifting the wait to the leg in the air, rolling through the whole foot starting from toenails, grabbing the floor with the toes and ending with the whole foot down while the other comes up on the other side. (Speeding up in the process) The chest follows the lifted foot side to side, with the arms and hands locked in 'awkward waving position'

Impulse excercises:

Forward-Backward Windmill:

Arms swing and rotate opposite directions (spiders on the wall), movement comes from impulse of knees and hips, eyes looking forward, shoulders relaxed.

Forward-Backward Wobbly Knees:

One knee up, lower leg hanging relaxed, standing leg rock solid, oppoiste arm streched forward, not-opposite (?) stretched back. Arms and leg swings back and forth. (Do both sides)

Sidewards Wobbly Knees:

One knee up to side , standing leg solid. Hanging leg relaxed, swings side to side, around the standing leg and back to the side. Impulse comes from hips. (Do both sides)

Sideway stretches:

1. riding stance, hands on knees, arms straight, shoulders in ears, body hangs on arms, rotate body to both sides

2. sitting with legs spread, turn to one side, hand on same side goes under lower leg, opposite hand presses thigh, while the other arm pulls the body to the leg, and the body roteates and stretches to the side (do both sides)

Arm lengthening:

Laying on back, one arm points up, a) shoulder goes gently up and down fast b)reach up as far as possible, rotate body (repeat, and do both arms)

Back Streetch-Bend Sequences:

1. Sitting in butterfly, holding ankles:

flat forward - bend back - flat forward - straight up flat (x2) and 8 counts of arching back , opening chest. (Also with voice)

2. Butterfly, arms crossed under knees, stretch-bend while arms push crossed sideways.

3.Sitting, legs straight: a) stretch-bend holding legs b) s.-b., toes pointing backwards, reaching out with arms over them

4.Sitting, legs spread, s.-b. reaching out forward, "head to ground"

5. Sitting, crossed legs a) s.-b. reaching forward, "head to ground" (switch legs) b)s.-.b. sideways, upper body flat (not bended forward)

6.Sitting, legs crossed, 'foot by knee', s.-b. sideways towards the leg that has the knee up, switch legs

+ release: sit legs straight, let body fall in front, elbows to the ground

MIME:

Wrist up and down: "Flat hand! Flat! Flat! Flat!"

Sadistic wrist stretch: hand backwards against bended leg, we all remember this one :)

Staff Spin: just a short reminder... release - relax -pose -grasp! Movement comes from wrist not arms or shoulders. Release goes with palms forward otherwise it looks like dropping sth. Remember stick is a rigid object, dont 'break' it.

Movement with hands on fixed points: "if you touch my hand you die" :)

With partner (closedand opend eyes) and alone, moving in all directions but hands don't move.

Undulations: The wave thing (it's too f***ing late, so I'll keep it short...)

a) forward: knee-hips-chest-head

b)backward: head-chest-hips-knee

arms and shoulders relaxed!

c) on the floor, moving in worm motion (looks easy when breakdancers do it...)

movement starts from toes pressing the butt up, then chest goes forward and up with the help of arms...

The rest tomorrow cause I'm falling asleep now... Buona Notte!

Imre