by admin | Dec 11, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Back pain, ballistic movement, Mindfulness, Swing
Here it is, and back by popular demand, my collins axe. Only one truly ignorant of the work involved would pick one up. There is a trick involved in using it, one that makes our work a lot easier. It is, rather than swinging the monstrous thing, to LET it swing....
by admin | Nov 10, 2015 | Alexander Technique, ballistic movement, Baseball, Pitching
Alexander Technique: Jazz up your walk. Among the desiderata for baseball pitchers: Falling up over the front foot. While you might not get their salary for doing so, falling up over your front foot while walking is good medicine. When you do, the rear foot will swing...
by admin | Oct 31, 2015 | Alexander Technique, ballistic, ballistic movement, Baseball
Today, go ballistic, ball-istic, that is. Throw something, a ball, a bean bag, and as you do, let the flexible big toe of your rear throwing foot be the last part of you sending the ball into flight. You’ll get greater loft, greater distance. Throw from your...
by admin | Jan 28, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, ballistic, ballistic movement, Singing
In Stanley Kubrik’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the chimpanzees, actually humans in chimp costumes, are at play in a boneyard. With one mighty downward stroke, one bone, or another resting upon it, is launched upward. It rotates, hangs in the air and morphs from bone...
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