Drag - Balance
None
- 00:02
- Oops, be that doesn't look good on camera.
- 00:06
- Well, he Told me, well,
- 00:07
- I'll do better this time. No, he told
- 00:08
- Me to feel a more balance.
- 00:10
- No, it's our secret. Oh.
- 00:12
- And does anyone know why I'm being pulled off balance?
- 00:15
- Well, balance is definitely a thing for this.
- 00:17
- Or maybe, maybe I pull her off balance. Yeah.
- 00:19
- See, this is switch. Sweet revenge. Um, I'm not pulling off.
- 00:23
- You're going off bounce all by yourself.
- 00:24
- You should Let me pull you off balance. Okay, that's over.
- 00:28
- Eager to help. That's
- 00:29
- Me There.
- 00:31
- Now I pulled her off balance. Wasn't that great? Oh
- 00:33
- Yeah. Wonderful.
- 00:35
- Um, so in slow motion, the first thing that went wrong
- 00:38
- was I went to drag
- 00:40
- and then my right hand was attached to her back
- 00:42
- and she went back away from me.
- 00:44
- And that pulled me forward to that right hand.
- 00:46
- Let's do this at a different angle. So I'm dragging her.
- 00:48
- She goes to step and then you see, um,
- 00:52
- if I don't release my right arm, then I get pulled off
- 00:55
- so I can defend my balance.
- 00:57
- So when I'm here, if she just steps back away from me,
- 00:59
- I can be like, well, okay, you can.
- 01:01
- And then I don't fall, which is, you know, nice not falling.
- 01:04
- Um, but better yet, the faller stays close.
- 01:08
- So we each have our own sense of access.
- 01:10
- I think that that's really important
- 01:12
- that we keep our own sets of
- 01:13
- Access. And now here's
- 01:14
- the other dangerous place.
- 01:15
- Um, plus can you step straight back to the camera?
- 01:18
- There we go. So let's say I have her foot
- 01:20
- and I'm gonna now drag her.
- 01:22
- Well, my instinct is to think I'm going that way.
- 01:25
- And what does that mean? That right here,
- 01:28
- I'll start pulling her before she's, uh, on her back foot.
- 01:32
- So very, very often, leaders do this.
- 01:34
- The follower's here, split weight. She's on both feet.
- 01:36
- And I start pulling her sideways timber
- 01:39
- and the follower falls and says, oh,
- 01:41
- he always knocks me off balance.
- 01:43
- So think the follower is going to pivot a ton
- 01:47
- and step relatively close to the leader.
- 01:49
- And I'll get over here for easier viewing.
- 01:51
- And now the trick is that the leader,
- 01:54
- you're not gonna pull her towards you.
- 01:55
- She's perfectly happy bouncing on her back foot.
- 01:59
- Don't pull her towards you. She's good where she is.
- 02:02
- Move her leg, not her body.
- 02:05
- And then you can move her body too.
- 02:10
- Her, her, her new new leg, her new free leg.
- 02:15
- A final comment, uh, other than just, you know,
- 02:18
- shift all the weight over the leg
- 02:20
- and then you can gesture with the other.
- 02:21
- Is it's okay to use this free leg pushing the floor a little
- 02:24
- bit for balance, like an outrigger.
- 02:26
- I mean, you're not like putting real weight on it,
- 02:28
- but just a few ounces can help balance.
- 02:31
- And that's fine. And
- 02:32
- That's all for both of us.
- 02:34
- Both the balancing over our axis
- 02:36
- and our ability to use our, our, I'm saying drag dragged leg
- 02:41
- a little bit for balance.
