So recently my training has lead me towards lots of stretching, i have not been traing very much with set aside times for it i have just been doing little bits throughout the day mostly strecthes. This has been invaliable to my training so far i have inreased my range and flexiblility a hell of a lot it is starting to become noticible in my form.
In my juggling/manipulation practise i have been working on contact juggling, the main area i have been working with is my head a balance on the crown of my head and on the temples and forhead (which later will lead to rolls from point to point).
I have found there is a few points on the top of the head where a ball could be balanced, one is more forward towards forhead and one is further back towards crown, the one on or near crown is the one i have been really training even though it is a harder balance to acheive, the reason is i want to keep my manipulation particularly contact juggling in line with tai chi principles as a experiment to see if the Principles of tai chi as taken from the classics will be a useful model to learn various manipulation (juggling arts) and from there use that model in my own teaching.
Also as a side line to the above points i would like to eventually acheive a balance on the top of my head with a 100mm acrylic ball all the way through my tai chi form (or as much of is as possible bearing in mind Snake creeps and Low punch)
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Thursday, 8 February 2007
Friday, 26 January 2007
Juggling
Juggling Through your working day will help your health and improve you productivity.
One of the services I offer is to run workshops in office enviroments teaching manipulation skills as a way to relax and improve concentration and productivity.
1. Juggling ehances concentration. 5mins of juggling will have the effect of a hour of increased concentration
2. Manipulation skills including Poi can reduce stress
3. Manipulation skills will improve co-ordination
4. Gentle excersise such as juggling poi can help to reduce back strain* often accosiated with desk work.
there are many examples of people finding this on the internet, the only real way to test these are for you to do it yourself.
*It is important to realise that some of the reason for this is the fact that in order to juggle etc.. you will have to leave you desk! secondly it helps to have a juggling coach with understanding of posture so to reinforce positive posture through adjustment over time.
Juggling as been found to increase the size of adult brains
"German scientists took brain scans of people who had spent three months learning to juggle three balls for 60 seconds.
At the end of three months, the amount of brain tissue had increased in areas of the brain involved in processing and
storage of complex visual motion.
After three months without juggling, the expansion had decreased. The scientists, writing in the latest issue of Nature, say more studies are needed to figure out what aspect of the brain tissue actually increased. Existing brain cells may have enlarged,
or new cells may have been born.
Either way, the researchers write, the study challenges the assumption that the structure of the adult brain can’t change"
One of the services I offer is to run workshops in office enviroments teaching manipulation skills as a way to relax and improve concentration and productivity.
1. Juggling ehances concentration. 5mins of juggling will have the effect of a hour of increased concentration
2. Manipulation skills including Poi can reduce stress
3. Manipulation skills will improve co-ordination
4. Gentle excersise such as juggling poi can help to reduce back strain* often accosiated with desk work.
there are many examples of people finding this on the internet, the only real way to test these are for you to do it yourself.
*It is important to realise that some of the reason for this is the fact that in order to juggle etc.. you will have to leave you desk! secondly it helps to have a juggling coach with understanding of posture so to reinforce positive posture through adjustment over time.
Juggling as been found to increase the size of adult brains
"German scientists took brain scans of people who had spent three months learning to juggle three balls for 60 seconds.
At the end of three months, the amount of brain tissue had increased in areas of the brain involved in processing and
storage of complex visual motion.
After three months without juggling, the expansion had decreased. The scientists, writing in the latest issue of Nature, say more studies are needed to figure out what aspect of the brain tissue actually increased. Existing brain cells may have enlarged,
or new cells may have been born.
Either way, the researchers write, the study challenges the assumption that the structure of the adult brain can’t change"
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