Standard Lesson with Ikaika on 4/21/2010

Attendee: Sharron

Today we worked on waltz.

1. Again to establish/sink the body weight onto the standing leg when getting into the position. Lay the left shoulder blade down, don't hold it up.

2. Use hand to communicate, to touch, feel and monitor where my partner is going.

3. Handing over weight from one foot to the other, use the standing leg longer. i asked the question regarding using the heel to push while moving back, how to prevent the heel from slipping. Ikaika said that if you didn't move your body back too early, you won't have the heel slipping, Basically, you use the foot to the move the body back, not the body moving back by itself.

We tried this idea of using the standing leg to its full extend on a few figures:
a. open impetus. Using the standing leg from right foot to left foot, then pressing the floor to propergate that energy THROUGH the body to the neck and head to turn to prominent.
b. on the wing using the left foot to hand over the weight, while feeling the sway and the rotation, to lead to the body turning, and the head turning, instead of artificial head turning.