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  1. TYR
    I haven't danced with mine on yet, but I have done both heavy weight training and conditioning. Lifting heavy was a bit odd but nothing special, but 500 24kg kettlebell swings with a mask was distinctly strange. I seemed to be hyperventilating.
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    "Don't crush the tiny people under your instep"
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    "Your knees should feel like your lungs" - Anna du Boisson (Not something you think about much unless things are badly wrong? Stuffed up with snot? Infected with COVID-19? So many possibilities....)
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    I have just done the 11th and last of the Dutch NB series with "...thank you, Rex". I will miss Ernst's barre, thank you, Rex, and also their excellent production values. No "what did Tamara say again?" with them.
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    Not a correction, but Nina Thilas-Mohs was complaining about a carpet being like a "beige swamp" over the weekend..
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    I have yet to find a way to get my feet in shot.
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    If you have a huge living room, the Merce Cunningham Trust is doing online classes: https://www.instagram.com/mercetrust/?igshid=ax5uconyydl7 Probably don't do this if you're recovering from the virus.
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    I can report the circular port thing really does work (got a call-out on zoom with NTM today).
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    Surely what with all the super famous online teaching there should be a crop of these?
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    John Clifford on his YT channel: "TOENAILS!" // lead your enveloppé out and back in with the toenail "Pick something up and then throw it over your other shoulder" // this for circular port de bras "And George said...it's the lights" // placement of the head with arms in 4th - should be inclined to catch a beam from the lights.
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    One piece of advice: think about whether the class can hear your *voice*. Don't wander away from the mic while introducing an exercise or giving corrections.
  12. TYR
    you know what this is missing? Links.
  13. TYR
    I've just done the Lynn Charles one and my calves are on fire.
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    Checked in again, and Danceworks is still ops normal. Westminster is currently the nation's leading virus cluster. DW runs wildly different groups one after another in the same studios all day, with a lot of drop-ins, a lot of the studios are barely ventilated, and I have never seen any cleaning between groups, even after the virus was here. They are taking too many chances.
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    Central School has shut down this week, while Danceworks is still open
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    I walked by CSB earlier on and noticed someone practising overhead lifts with his partner in studio 1. No idea how long before they send the students home or what, but thank you for a moment of beauty.
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    This one was a little baffling, thanks to Enrico Montes: "Back up! Back up!" I was doing a penché to 1st arabesque and then an arabesque balance in relévé. I did think of hopping backwards but realised he meant keep your back higher until the leg is up
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    Renato Paroni: "it's like housing benefit, you've got to give it everything you've got before you apply." (I don't think that's actually how housing benefit works but it's a great correction on hip placement.)
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    I wear these and I loves 'em: https://www.planetdancedirect.co.uk/Capezio-Mr-James-Whiteside-Canvas-Ballet-Shoe
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    Very good point in the post about periodization - this is absolutely basic to any serious athletic training at all (the original scientific research is from the 1950s) and it's pretty shocking that it's news to anyone. Even for someone like me - the weights program I use has a wave loading pattern, so you get one heavy, one middling, one brutal, and one light workout per week.
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    What's too old

    TYR replied to Redsam's topic in Doing Dance

    Too old? If you're in a box you're too old (m/39, started 36)
  22. TYR
    "The thigh should start off cylindrical, but then...you know how you find balloons under the sofa three days after the party? It should go flat like that as you rotate."
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    Mark Kelly usually throws that flickflack thing at you. I can't help, I invariably go around them the wrong way
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    The falling apart and post-class fog is the sign you're pushing on the limit; it will get better. Also you might be running out of steam physically - you might need to work on your fitness outside of class, or even just get a snack before you take class (it took me quite a while to work out I was basically out of sugar).
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    "What I want from you is fearlessness, and only speed teaches fearlessness."
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