Lunging - What to Practice - Followers - Chasing the Foot
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- So most lunges come out of a step.
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- So for example, if mom is leading and I'm following,
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- and I'm the follower, usually it'll step into a lunge.
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- And as that happens, I'm aware of my leader, center
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- of gravity and my leader's foot.
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- And I want you as followers to take a moment
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- and say, don't worry about the lunge or leader steps.
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- And you say, can I feel where the foot's landing? Right?
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- And I want you in your mind's eye to visualize
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- that foot feeling it through the embrace.
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- And then that will let you feel
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- where you should be reaching towards. And
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- I just took a much bigger step
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- and he came with me kind of chasing my foot.
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- And then similarly, I want you to notice that, uh, if,
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- if I were to lunge in this line,
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- I don't lunge towards her like this, where I'm looking away
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- or I'm looking, or over here, which is very common.
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- It is. So for example, if we do
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- that same lunge in this line, this is a common mistake,
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- and it's clear that I'm not towards my partner.
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- And instead you want have the sensation as followers,
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- that when you're lunging,
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- you're lunging straight
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- through the line. There's my partner.
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- So he, he or, or,
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- or I, when I'm following, I'm going straight at him.
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- It's very, it, it feels emotionally invasive, even
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- what it actually physically isn't.
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- Well, I mean, I I, over time you learn that,
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- that your yourself, the boundary of self is inside,
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- not, uh, outside.
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- That's exactly right. I.
