Mapping - Symmetry
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- Uh, now one thing about the collection compared
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- to the previous video on, on mapping and,
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- and collection is that actually, that's not
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- how it really works if you're moving yourself, right?
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- So it's a great kinesthetic way to feel the mapping,
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- but in real life, you don't get here.
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- And then with sheer force, pull your thighs in as you shift
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- because it requires a ton of work on the inner thighs,
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- what you actually do is you use the momentum, the, the,
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- the push off, the push off
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- to get over that ledge of gravity.
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- Um, but a really good exercise, I believe, is to say, well,
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- the going out, if my arms are my legs
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- and I do this,
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- then you have this sense of sense of extension
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- and collection of extension and collection.
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- And the way you get over that ledge right here is
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- that you push off to get over the ledge.
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- So this is a tough one to do in slow motion.
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- We're gonna break it into two parts.
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- So part one is that, and just sitting to the bottom.
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- Part one is that you go out
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- and I want you to notice that your legs are symmetrical.
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- So if this is a sidestep,
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- you don't know which way I was going.
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- If I showed you only this position, was I going left
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- or was I going right?
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- You don't know. And so this sidestep,
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- if you froze it in the middle,
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- ideally you wouldn't know which way you were stepping.
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- Um, and what that means, the risk is that people do lots of
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- odd stuff where, where there's all this distortion,
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- rather than saying, here's one position
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- and it's really symmetrical.
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- So I want you to do that and just practice
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- and even have your hands do it at the same time.
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- You can make a sound effect with me.
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- I really believe that the sound
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- effect can help.
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- Um, and then after you get just the going
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- and stopping, then you're going to go stop.
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- But you're gonna keep, but you're not going
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- to st you're gonna do it rapidly.
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- It's gonna become a real side step. Wa wa.
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- And once you can do this, then you can start
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- to pay attention to the collection.
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- Because right now we've been saying, well,
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- when you go it's symmetrical,
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- and now we're doing go in, go in,
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- and you want to feel the symmetry in the collection.
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- Go in, go in.
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- And now you start to pay attention to the quality
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- of the collection there.
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- Look in the mirror and especially
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- pay attention to the edges.
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- Pay attention to this beginning as it mapped.
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- Well pay attention to that landing.
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- Is it symmetrical? And pay attention to right there,
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- right here as you collect in,
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- Is that symmetrical?
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- Not easy, but but worthwhile, right?
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- Fully jaw, no, I forgot. Forward and back.
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- So with forward and back, it's the same idea
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- that you can have a moment when you're stuck in the middle.
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- And at this point, was David walking forward
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- or was he walking backward?
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- And the truth is, it's not actually symmetrical on the back,
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- but on the forward it's pretty close.
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- So you can go out, in, out, in,
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- and you have that same scissor effect
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- of going out and coming in.
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- Um, and so you can practice the same thing here, here.
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- So with that, this video's done.
