Ay Yai Eye!

topic posted Wed, January 16, 2008 - 7:57 PM by  Daryl
Has anyone tried closing their eyes and just 'feeling' the rope and what they are doing? i started doing so about a year ago to the day and i can do roughly 90% of my repertoire blindfolded now, with some complications on certain leg wraps and blindly catching the dart at the end of the routine in the pull back at the end of the full extension. The main idea is to just maintain tension on the rope the entire time until you can ''see'' where the rope and the dart is at any given point in time. Eventually you don't even have to focus on ''seeing'' it and the movements should be extremely natural and flowing by that point, as if you're almost psychically controlling it. Maybe i'm just crazy or what, but i found i've gone leaps and bounds in my training since i started smoking green to heighten sensitivity and relaxingly shutting my eyes to feel it.....it's really just great for letting go of tension, almost makes the manipulation of the dart meditative. Bam.
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Daryl
Canada
  • Re: Ay Yai Eye!

    Wed, January 16, 2008 - 9:46 PM
    I don’t know if I would call ropedart meditative, closed eyes or not, but I also often practice my routine with eyes closed. It’s my personal safety rule that before I ignite my prop, that I must be able to perform the routine with my eyes closed. I don’t want to be in the middle of a performance and be blinded by a flaming wick, without the exact knowledge of where the rope is. Then again, I could just be an anal-retentive safety freak.

    Odysseus

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