It can be tough to practice sometimes, especially when you get stuck in a daily grind and there doesn't feel like there are many opportunities to practice. Sometimes I feel like this comes and goes, sometimes it's easy to find the time, other times... it's not.
I've been finding though that there are really lots of opportunities if you just stay on the look out for them. I've been doing a lot of practice of spinning around, like walking through a door and spinning around clockwise or anti-clockwise as I go through. Its a pretty simply thing, and quickly done. But, it's really easy to lose balance or spatial awareness as you do it.
Think how many doors you go through, and how many different types of door there are. Some doors are tougher, some lighter. How useful is this? Sure it's nothing special but it sure beats the usual mindless way some of us go through our day. If training is only done for 2 hours once a week, we have 166 hours that we didn't use effectively.
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2 comments:
I like the idea of doing spirals while walking around during the day.
I work outside every day, so I do a lot of stretching and occasional use trees as training partners, branches as arms, trunk as body.
I've heard some say you should ask the tree's permission first, to show respect for a living training partner.
D.R.
Another fun thing I sometimes do is to spin around when I reach landings on staircases. I always try and use the stairs rather than the lift, and the landings give a great opportunity to practice feeling the space in 3 dimensions around me, instead of turning towards the next set of stairs I turn the other way and keep going so I do a 180 degree turn. Done often enough and I have started to get a feel for the space, the speed, the steps etc.
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