The spherical and cubic models

What we did on Sunday 13 May 2012

Group 1: Insistence on walking unaided; achieved four steps completely unaided.

Group 2: Working on spherical and cubic models.  These two exercises are pretty much developed now and have settled into the form I expect them to retain for some time.  The importance of these exercises quite apart from training the wrist and hand movements is to engender reflection on the various successive ways the hands can move independently one from the other.  There are an endless number of variants when practising these exercises and it is good to try working them from different positions.  The cubic model for example can be rotated upon its longitudinal axis to give four new trajectories, and then rotated on its vertical axis to give four more etc. ad infinitum.  It is a similar discipline to working scales on the piano keyboard and I have to confess to being very neglectful of practising my keyboard scales these days, however I am finding working the variations on the cubic model particularly challenging and mind bending and I haven’t even scratched the surface with the basic variations yet…  most satisfying :-)