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Movement Mechanics and Structural Integration

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Movement: Centerline Movement: Circular Movement: Footwork Movement: Shoulder Movement: other

In Brandon's own words

Every tagged moment, by class. Click a quote to land at the exact moment.

[object Promise] 4 moments

“"Turn and go in a different direction...pay attention to my hips...knees over my toes...put down the foot, and then I transfer the weight" ... "And then shifting your weight" ... "Steps and shifts. 1, 2, 1, 2"”
Open at 7:49
“"be at least be balanced, and preferably forward-weighted" ... "when I come down... already directly in line with your center line" with side-step geometry returning to line.”
Open at 1:00:44
“"Your hands are just hanging." → "Open your eyes, wherever you're facing, just put your arms up." → "feel your shoulders stretch" → "Reach up through the fingertips" → "let your head drop back" → "pop your fingers up again so your shoulders go out of socket"”
Open at 10:10
“"Upper chin, head side to side." ... "Start involving your shoulders." ... "Leave your ear on the shoulder and nod as you reach away." ... "The colloquial word for scapula is… Shoulder blades!"”
Open at 25:16
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“"the center goes forward, but throwing in front" ... "How we would do this" ... "they're the same technique" ... "It's the same general feeling."”
Open at 33:12
“"Keep my own structure... Connect to yours..." and later "I create my own delimits in my body"”
Open at 47:43
“"Elbows down" (), "5-pointed star" (), "point your toes... reach out... scoot that foot" (), "walk your hands up" (), "watch back to center again" (), "Come on the floor" and then "allow yourself to relax down" ().”
Open at 2:49
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[object Promise] 6 moments

“"And roly-poly, all the way around... you use your body, and you ask it to stretch and roll around and around, keep going... make sure your whole ball is full of air."”
Open at 12:32
“"Come and sit on your bottom again... Rock side to side... only the lower body moves... And go back and switch... one, two, one, two, up... Big Y circles."”
Open at 14:02
“... start a circle ... in your mind ... ... stop her ... make it a circle ... ... stop her ... around the corner ... go around the corner ... makes a circle out of it.”
Open at 35:35
“"Nol is a connector word... I put out my hand... as soon as she grabs it... And as soon as you grab, I go around the corner, and that turns you." ... "It keeps moving!"”
Open at 39:53
“"Now start sneaking." ... "Feel with your feet... Sneak, sneak, sneak around, where the foot goes first" ... "and then the balance follows." ... "backwards and forwards... And on the diagonal."”
Open at 24:03
“"Blend... what she means is, you go straight in... that's what Irimi means" ... "you're getting behind them"”
Open at 26:58
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[object Promise] 4 moments

“"Take your left leg out and behind you..." ... "Separate your heels" ... "Rock your heels back and forth" ... "let your hands your legs pop out front... let's do feet together first"”
Open at 10:32
“"Let's do a quickie." ... "without pulling me toward you, step off the line and occupy as much space as possible" ... "fill up space, still keeping both my feet weighted."”
Open at 49:38
“"Does it feel like both my feet are waved right now?" So keep that as you go into full open space on that side." I keep both my feet weighted."”
Open at 50:07
“"Let's start rocking back and forth." then "You're just gonna use your hips to rock yourself back and forth." and continues through "we're just gonna pull the hips off the ground," reach your hands up, and pedal," Press your knees down, lift your crown up."”
Open at 9:15
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“You really are going the opposite way around your... everything that you do would then be the opposite direction.... Go around the clock....”
Open at 2:23
“"So this foot can go all the way around behind the screen... you're gonna end up facing completely the other way... Keep going all the way around... until you're the opposite direction on the same line."”
Open at 25:25
“"Al...you're going to go like this... And your feet and your hands will match. So if that's my forward foot, that's my forward hand."”
Open at 31:10
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[object Promise] 8 moments

“"Press your arm as close to your ear as you can get it." ... "don't let your head move, don't lean your head to your arm" ... "Let's do the other side."”
Open at 11:39
“"Reaching behind you?" ... "Try not to let your torso move, just reach behind." ... "take it behind, across, and down" ... "pull yourself to the opposite side."”
Open at 12:47
“"Drop your head forward... move your chest and your shoulders to get your head to go up... bring your body back... let it tilt to the side... let your body tilt with it."”
Open at 9:20
“"That puts your head… In a particular vector." ... "Hands forward, head side to side." ... "Down the other direction."”
Open at 10:07
“And then you cross the heels, so that top of the head goes straight up.”
Open at 19:57
“"Go to the right, take your right foot, point and reach it until it goes left... Reach out in all directions... And then look behind you."”
Open at 30:00
““When we… so I tell the kids, and the adults, to point at the center of the dojo… and don't, don't touch it!... The center of your and my physical interaction… that’s one way to know the center… The more likely you are to be able to move freely… Which is what archetypal, as a strategy, is looking for.””
Open at 55:53
“this t-shirt is borrowed, and they go, BAM! Whoa! You know, it's like, how did… how did he know that…”
Open at 59:54
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[object Promise] 4 moments

“"Does it have to move with your movement?" So, my breath is affected by the shape of my body..." It's one of the ways ... while I'm doing movement... when the air is over, I pause long enough to expand."”
Open at 14:17
“"And then figure out what's your breath…" → "Find your way back to center and floating up." and "And breathing so that your back expands, and pedaling backwards."”
Open at 20:03
“"If I do it wrong, and I lift from the shoulder." ... "Shoulder drop, and the elbows moving out." ... "weightless sword" ... "not lifting it up" ... "if I think about shooting my elbows forward"”
Open at 41:49
“"If I shoot my elbows forward, ... I get way better billows effect" ... "the pecs and the lats are talking to each other" ... "Serratus, anterior, to pull your shoulder blade around your rib cage"”
Open at 43:33
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[object Promise] 12 moments

“"Long steps... pull yourself onto one leg... pulling yourself into the vertical" ... "keep your hips underneath your shoulders"”
Open at 5:04
“"And you're opening and closing your hips... So you leave the knee... until there's no weight in it... can start going backwards... Sideways steps into a vertical."”
Open at 6:03
“"Please move your foot, your weight back and forth... using your heel as a pivot... open the hip... knee and toe pivot out..." ... "switch to the ball... opening and closing with the other knee anchored over that toe"”
Open at 7:05
“"Knees in, hips in... Dropping the knees toward each other... hips underneath your shoulders... Only as far as you can go all the way back without leaning in front."”
Open at 10:05
“"this is my left side... I'm gonna align it like it's on a rail... put the other one on rail... knee over the toe... leg is the center of the axis... Figure 8."”
Open at 10:59
“"And then hold it... reach around, reach around... The other one gets a turn point behind you. Knees over toes..."”
Open at 11:49
“"Your weight goes back and forth between your feet... As I go left, my right hand goes left... as I go right, my left arm makes the circuit."”
Open at 12:30
“"Both arms make the circuit? Let's just keep going back and forth... try to get your fingertips as far away from your body as you can."”
Open at 13:24
“"do it slow enough that you can feel when the same side hand comes in line with the leg, and then the other one takes over... Like, it hits a little spot."”
Open at 13:56
“Could not find explicit cue language for weighted ankle/foot sole mobility terms ("ball", "heel", "forefoot", "ankle stretch") in the provided Zoom excerpt.”
Open at 20:00
“Could not find explicit cue language for weighted foot/ankle conditioning language in the provided Zoom cue lines.”
Open at 20:00
“"Hips under the shoulders, pulling the knee forward" ... "step into open space... reach up as though you were going to push"”
Open at 20:20
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“"And the rocking exercise." ... "Then, the boat rock becomes the rock back and forth." ... "Rock and roll!" ... "Go across ... at the end of every rocking exercise, back and forth" ... "instead of just going back and forth, because what's happening is a lot of people are right on their spines."”
Open at 18:09
“"So it's never my spine and my head, it's always my hips." So we're gonna go… across… back across… forward" ... "So we're going in a circle the whole time" ... "You're switching which hip you're on, And what shoulder you're on" ... "Switch sides, come up, switch sides again"”
Open at 20:17
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“"a lot of the time when people just go straight..." ... "that's not gonna work at speed" ... "rocking back" ... "keep going in the same direction as though we were doing roly-pollies" ... "I go back and switch my feet" ... "So I'm also gonna go from that hip to this hip"”
Open at 15:14
“"I'm … when I squeeze, I'm making sure my shoulders…"; "In the scapula and the…"; "pull across, Try to get those to open up"; "I also use it as a diagnostic"”
Open at 20:01
“"Pull myself across with the foot, pull my hips underneath…"; "Pulled to the other side."”
Open at 20:54
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[object Promise] 7 moments

“"Keep moving it ever so subtly that your body never goes... a subcategory of keep moving it ever so subtly is extend it... I wobble..."”
Open at 10:26
“"if I'm trying to stand on one foot... I wobble... trying to reach it to the ceiling... it becomes less a project of not trying to fall..."”
Open at 10:44
“"to always be very slowly on my way to something else... The idea is to... never really stop... Constantly moving is a way to approach this."”
Open at 14:09
“"Turn your toes in, turn your toes out..." through "I might push my knees down. I lift up through the crown... micro-movement"”
Open at 20:10
“"Turn your toes in, turn your toes out..."; "And backwards."; "Make sure you're lifting that foot at the end, so it's really getting circles."”
Open at 20:10
“"If you feel yourself as you incline forward..."; "I feel like I gotta get my head to go forward"; "I might push my knees down... expand with some other directions"”
Open at 20:47
“"Avail yourself of the shifting of your butt." ... "you're changing where your butt is before you do your roll..."”
Open at 23:16
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“"anything I do that hurts your toe? ... Don't do that" ... "the knot hurts side down, and stretch those toes" ... "point the toe" ... "bringing it up a little higher" ... "Bring your foot behind you" ... "Continue stretching the right toes" ... "bring your foot behind you"”
Open at 1:23
“"So you're not gonna squishy toes." ... "do X amount of continuous movement. Just keep moving." ... "don't put any pressure on each other."”
Open at 15:29
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[object Promise] 9 moments

“"What's going on with my body?..." ... "That's how my back feels... shoulders feel... hips feel." ... "Stretch my toes a little bit."”
Open at 2:07
“And roly-polies, don't clobber anybody, and don't hit the furniture. Gently roll right where you are... I'm gonna lay myself all the way over... this is one of the exercises to do that... there are various exercises that feel to me like getting up out of bed... only goes opening the book.”
Open at 17:29
“"watch the distance between my shoulders and my feet" ... "your feet have to be alive" ... "Then ... seiza."”
Open at 22:32
“"I'm on one butt cheek... switch, and I come back down on the other side" ... "let go of your heel" ... "go back to here."”
Open at 23:49
“"a lot of the stuff we do ... is about our center" ... "you can have this middle that we hold" ... "there's an outer part that we move".”
Open at 26:59
“"How the body moves based on what the sender is doing..." then "that's what's gonna make the difference... is your weight" and "we don't ever need against the wall, because we're practicing using our own structure."”
Open at 31:14
“"Really grab them... try to affect their center... Don't keep them from doing the technique, but challenge their center."”
Open at 44:37
“"try to chuck them right underneath your legs" ... "the same thing with my feet" ... "don't pull them toward you"”
Open at 50:17
“"we can do strict shot...sit down on the ground" ... "that's 2 points" ... "Hajime!"”
Open at 55:55
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[object Promise] 1 moment

“"walk up on your knees... sit down" ... "drop... into Kiza" ... "drop your bottom onto your heels" squish your foot and drop it"”
Open at 50:26
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“"only your upper body moves" ... "And then pause as far as you can go on one direction" ... "tabletop your arms, go to the other side" ... "Down hand, up hand"”
Open at 1:41
“"when you're sitting down, you rock back and switch which leg is on top" … "pull the heel in and stretch the hip" … "And then come back to Kiza, and float your knees up off the ground"”
Open at 10:11

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