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[00:00] When we're about to connect in color position, I want to keep my frame still, and there's
[00:05] going to be a little bit of a gap.
[00:07] From this place of having our frame engaged, I then want to connect with my partner, and
[00:13] then we can both make the adjustments we need to, to basically seal.
[00:18] And that way, my partner feels like I'm very present here.
[00:23] If I relax my frame on this side, I'm kind of gone.
[00:27] And when we have this connection, this feels so secure because I'm kind of holding her
[00:34] hand that I can get away with doing this.
[00:37] But it feels very different once we start moving.
[00:39] So I want you to think about framing up, always, and then this is just incidental.
[00:46] So when you guys are practicing, practice like this, okay?
[00:50] We also talked about how the beginning of your body rolls in lateral waves.
[00:53] We don't want to shoot up.
[00:56] We don't want to go, right?
[00:59] We want to think about relaxing.
[01:02] Weight change.
[01:03] Push the ground.
[01:04] And then tilt to create the shape.
[01:07] Relax.
[01:08] Weight change, tilt.
[01:10] Relax.
[01:11] I'm opening my left lung to invite my follower to tilt.
[01:15] When I want to do a body roll, comp re, I'm going to drop my follower more in the middle.
[01:21] Cool.
[01:21] Straight spine clear.
[01:23] Good.
[01:24] And then I want to be able to access my partner's hips through swinging my, and there's still
[01:28] a gap here.
[01:29] I'm not hugging my follower.
[01:30] Like, this is just like the other ones there.
[01:32] So down and up, down and up, down and up.
[01:35] When I want to do a comp re, I'm going to swing my hip, and then I'm going to push the
[01:39] ground.
[01:40] That's what unlocks my follower.
[01:42] And then when we get to this point, I can look so that it's a little bit of a tilt.
[01:48] If we happen to be connected, I want us to avoid situations, bend your legs, where we're
[01:55] doing this.
[01:57] If we wanted to do a bigger comp re, we would push with more energy, and then just tilt a
[02:04] little bit more.
[02:05] Sorry.
[02:06] And the end of this movement, relax your arm.
[02:11] Good.
[02:11] Round it here.
[02:12] Every time there's a pin here.
[02:13] Same thing on the other side.
[02:14] Very good.
[02:23] And then you can basically prepare whatever I can do with the breath.
[02:26] It's the same sensation that we always want to use whenever we're basically sending our
[02:32] partner on their basic step.
[02:35] Right?
[02:35] So I just came up from a lateral wave, release into a rock step.
[02:42] I just came back from a lateral wave, release into a basic.
[02:47] It's the same feeling.
[02:50] And then we also talked about how if we wanted to lead anything in this position, in frame
[02:54] position, I'm not really thinking about getting to my followers' lats, which causes like frames
[03:02] to be inconsistent.
[03:03] I'm thinking about how do I set my frame?
[03:07] Okay, great.
[03:07] Now how do I line up with my partner in a way where it's not too high or too low?
[03:14] I want it to be working for them.
[03:16] And because I'm not aiming for the lats, right, I can connect anywhere along this with my fingers
[03:24] closed.
[03:25] And that way there's enough space for both of us to have integrity in our frames.
[03:29] And for circular movements, there's now space.
[03:32] Okay?
[03:33] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
[03:37] Watch my lateral wave.
[03:38] And I'm going to go up.
[03:42] And there's space.
[03:45] And there's space.
[03:47] And there's space.
[03:49] And there's space.
[03:51] One, two, three, five, six, seven.
[03:56] One, two, three, five, five, six, seven.
[04:02] One, two, three.
[04:03] Remember, progressive.
[04:04] So I'm not going to shoot up.
[04:05] I'm going to progressively up.
[04:07] I'm going to go up.
[04:08] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
[04:11] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
[04:14] Yeah.
[04:17] We also talked about, it was a little bit more obvious when you were in shadow position here,
[04:22] but your lateral wave preps, just like I was saying, you want that to come from the same
[04:26] place.
[04:26] Claire, good opportunity for you here to work on your arm tension.
[04:30] Oh, like it.
[04:31] Exactly.
[04:32] Exactly.
[04:32] Keep that piece of paper there.
[04:34] And we want it to kind of just be in this Goldilocks zone of just enough, right?
[04:38] So that, and then here on this side, you can connect with me a little bit better by shifting
[04:42] the way forward.
[04:43] Forward.
[04:44] There it is.
[04:44] Feel me?
[04:45] Yeah.
[04:45] Okay.
[04:46] Tap.
[04:47] And then one follower's time, whatever.
[04:49] Five, six, seven, and one, two, three, four.
[04:55] Progressive.
[04:56] Swing the hip.
[04:57] Push the ground.
[04:59] That's what I'm locked to the head.
[05:01] Think about creating space.
[05:03] And then if we're going to just do the chest-led version, I'm collapsing here, and I'm not thinking
[05:07] about going for her lap, right?
[05:09] This creates space, and then I shift the weight, and, you know, one, two, three.
[05:19] Now, matrix time, which I kind of did a little bit there.
[05:22] When we're doing our central basic, in this matrix time, so first, let me just do my central
[05:31] basic.
[05:31] Catch and release.
[05:38] Boom.
[05:39] Boom.
[05:39] Catch.
[05:41] Release.
[05:42] I'm preparing whatever's next.
[05:44] So if I wanted something different, I can prepare that in matrix time, and then release.
[05:51] Matrix time.
[05:53] Matrix time.
[05:56] Let's see.
[05:57] We'll be like, yeah, I'll be like this.
[06:00] Five, six, seven, one, two.
[06:12] Two, three.
[06:14] So we want to sync that up with the breath because it provides additional clarity for our partners,
[06:19] and we want to basically use our matrix time to aim our torso over where we want it to drop,
[06:25] and that's going to control the direction of our head.
[06:28] So if I did this by myself, one, two, three, five, six, seven.
[06:36] One, two, three, five, six, seven.
[06:42] For you, when we're connected in closed position here, I want you to think about when we go down,
[06:49] one, two, on three, four, we're going to progress the push-up.
[06:53] So you're going to go, um...
[06:55] I'm going to go.
[06:56] I'm going to go.
[06:57] I'm going to go.
[06:57] I'm going to go.
[06:58] Yeah, but here, I want you to think about pushing with your calf and then pushing with
[07:01] your thigh.
[07:02] No.
[07:02] Yeah.
[07:03] One, two, calf, thigh.
[07:06] Yeah!
[07:07] So now you still have gas in the tank, so if I change the shape, you're not just like,
[07:12] oh, fuck.
[07:13] Yeah.
[07:13] Right?
[07:13] So we're going one, two, calf, thigh.
[07:17] One, two, calf, thigh.
[07:20] One, two, calf, thigh.
[07:23] Uh-huh.
[07:24] Uh, two, three, one, two, three.
[07:29] Yeah, good.
[07:30] Yeah, that's a little bit better.
[07:31] Yeah, you always want to leave a little bit of gas in the tank and don't rush the air.
[07:34] Okay.
[07:35] Yeah.
[07:36] Yeah.
[07:36] Good.
[07:37] I think those are the main things we covered.
[07:40] That's already popular.
[07:41] Yeah.