Pivot - What to Practice - Direction
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- It's helpful to know what direction you're going.
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- Mm-hmm. So this is one you could practice at home if you
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- wanted, uh, when you're pivoting.
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- So for example, if I wanna pivot, will this help me pivot?
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- And then you're like, well, but look, I pivoted.
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- And yes, you can pivot by doing that,
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- but the pressure doesn't,
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- the downward pressure doesn't help you pivot.
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- Um, and even if I'm falling, you say, well, I fell
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- and I'm pushing down so I don't fall.
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- That's true, but it would be even better
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- yet if you push back.
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- So you're standing up. So if you have to choose between,
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- I'm gonna push down so I don't fall,
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- or I'm gonna push the opposite so
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- that I can be standing up again.
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- It's better to be able to be standing up again.
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- So if she were to fall towards me,
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- right here, she's pushing forward.
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- Uh, then you can say when you're pivoting, one of the things
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- that can make it way easier is
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- to say, well, what's the direction?
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- So if you just focus on one hand, one hand at a time,
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- then you can really pay super close attention to
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- what this hand is doing.
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- And so, for example, for her, she's really conscious
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- that these fingers, you know, aren't pushing down,
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- but rather they're are pulling. They
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- Used to push down, but this is so much more functional.
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- Is that clear? Right.
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- Direction is only that way and it's not this way.
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- Or sometimes some people pull out also,
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- and you can do the same thing on the other arm that here
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- for the followers, once again, it's easy
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- to push down on the shoulder.
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- This is what makes you feel heavy.
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- When leaders complain, I, she's so heavy,
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- it's 'cause you're pushing down.
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- Right? Uh, so instead of pushing down, you can say,
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- can you really genuinely push forward to get that pivot?
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- Or can you really genuinely even, oops. And that's okay.
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- Even though you, you have your hand here,
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- you wanna be careful of using the top of your hand.
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- 'cause that's a downward pressure
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- and say, well, that's not what I want.
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- I want this pivot that, that,
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- that pull to be creating the pivot.
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- And so just practice at home slowly with a wall
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- or chair, well, maybe not a chair counter
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- and pay really close attention.
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- Even if you can prevent yourself from using any other
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- direction, then you'll see what it feels like.
