Ahem. I believe Jeff was making a joke, and I also don't think that the extra 10% in "110% correct" is quite warranted. After all, a balance is done with your whole self, the balance of your body, the set of your arms, the attention of your brain, and yes, the spring in your step.
What Richard said was, however, fabulous! I hadn't ever thought of the balance as the time you get to learn about your partner, but won't forget it, ever, now. M E On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Michael Fuerst <mjerryfue...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hearing your feet has nothing to do with the correctness of the balance > and sometimes indicates a lack of connection with or attention paid to the > person or persons with whom one is balancing.Greg's remark was 110% > correct. > --- On Mon, 3/19/12, Jeff Kaufman <j...@alum.swarthmore.edu> wrote: > > From: Jeff Kaufman <j...@alum.swarthmore.edu> > Subject: Re: [Callers] teaching a balance > To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> > Date: Monday, March 19, 2012, 12:19 PM > > Greg McKenzie wrote: > > > > A balance is done with the hands, and the eyes. No one will ever be > > looking at your feet while you balance. > > > > If you're doing it right they'll hear your feet, though. > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > call...@sharedweight.net > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > call...@sharedweight.net > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > -- As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of adventure, full of discovery... May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy, you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time. ~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
