Pivot - Elastic arms & connected structure
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- For the follower, it's important that we use our arms
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- to help the leader, help us pivot,
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- because if they can be helping us pivot
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- and we can be helping us pivot,
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- the pivots become really easy.
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- So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna push
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- with my left arm very gently until I feel it hit my back.
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- And then just without too much effort,
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- I'm gonna keep on putting pressure until it makes me pivot
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- and I'm pulling with this arm, the right arm. That
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- Was really well done for us. Thank
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- You. Let's,
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- let's zoom in so you can see
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- that better and we'll show you both sides.
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- So I set up this pull with my right arm
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- and push with my left arm,
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- and I just very gently let it get to my waist and my hips.
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- And then I keep increasing the pressure
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- until it just makes me pivot.
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- And let's show you that from the other side as well,
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- so you can see what's happening
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- and you can push with your hand or
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- Yeah, if we're up close, I can use,
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- uh, whatever you call that
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- Upper arm. Yeah,
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- My upper arm, like I was saying.
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- So I'm pushing and pulling
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- and then eventually I just keep increasing the pressure
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- until by magic the pivot happens.
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- And that's even without my partner's
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- Help. And it's
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- really useful that she did it gradually.
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- If you try to do it fast, yeah,
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- your body will do all this weird stuff.
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- You don't know what it is. But if you do it gradually
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- and you say, well, I'm even gonna be embrace, I'm heavy.
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- Okay, uh, one foot forward, one foot back, okay.
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- And for the leaders, no, you don't have to do anything.
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- If you just do it gradually, ideally, you'll be surprised.
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- Pivot yourself. You, right?
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- And you'd be like, oh, I pivoted,
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- but then nothing else extra happens in your body.
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- So that was idea number one, what
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- He is talking about with extra ha I found myself tense in
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- the shoulders, tense in my neck,
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- and none of that was helping me pivot.
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- So I just let all of that go
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- and I only use the piece that's helping.
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- Okay. And so then for idea number two, there's this idea
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- that the follower can be part of the leader system.
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- And what does that mean? That means our centers
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- of gravity are connected.
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- So if she leans a little bit away
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- and she just lets herself fall,
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- or she's like, oh, I can fall forward, then all
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- of a sudden the axis is a little bit unstable on purpose.
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- Do you see that? She's like, oh.
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- And you know, if I let go, she'd fall backwards.
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- She'd fall forward, but it's very small.
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- But then when we go to pivot, there's this sense that
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- because the axis keeps that this thing, it allows it
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- to be, uh, more stable.
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- So if I'm the follower and I say, oh, I can lean forward
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- or backwards, just, just be still.
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- I can lean forward or I can lean backwards.
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- And then it gets to be more subtle,
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- more subtle, more subtle.
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- Then when the time comes to pivot,
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- you get the extra stability of having your leader there
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- to hold you as you fall even within
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- this sort of small micron.
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- So play, once again, always I show this with a wall
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- that you can lean on the wall or maybe a corner,
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- or you can pull away a, the corner
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- of a door or something like that.
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- And then when you go to to pivot, you feel a great sense
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- of stability, right?
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- So here's the, the homework.
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- If you do it with a wall and you can feel really stable,
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- and you do it with a person and you feel really unstable,
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- then try to map the feeling with a wall to the meal
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- and feeling with a person.
