Warning To All Arms!!! (about the people who own them)

Many people are mean to their arms.

They push them, boss them about, put them in strange positions and try to hold them in place - when what they need to be doing is letting them move.

I decided today that your Arms need an advocate – ME.

I want to warn arms against the people who think they know better what to do with an arm than the arm does itself.

Now, this may all seem a little weird – giving an arm a personality, and putting it up against you. But isn't that what you do to your arms a lot of time?

"Oh, my shoulder is killing me!"

Killing you? 

And lots of arm trash talk like that.

And the worst one of all….

“Trying to widen my arms across the chest.”

Huh?

You can't widen your arms. They are already as wide as they are going to be – what, you think you can make a bone get longer just by stretching the muscles? 

Anyway, it happened in class that an accomplished Violinist was telling Cathy – who is currently visiting Japan – that she could not play tremolo well – the quick back and forth of the bowing arm that produces the trembling sound was causing her a lot of strain and fatigue in her arm. 

Another arm complaint (as if it was the arms fault) Sigh.

Not the arms fault. Arms belong to you. You decide what to do with your arms. Stop blaming your arm for all your trouble.

Of course, now I am not very kind to you!

You're innocent too – just as the violinist was innocent. Kaoru didn't know what she was doing to her arm; she just knew that her arm was starting hurting when she played tremolo too long. It was hard to perform correctly – and go that fast.

And the culprit was a tiny little muscle that had been pushed out of play by a more aggressive idea in the mind of the player. 

All the secrets are revealed in an online video of the lesson – fast forward to the middle to find the hero of the tremolo, and hear for yourself how the sound changes. But only available to people who email me about nabbing one of the three spots on Golden Week – which gives you access immediately to BodyChance’s Online Library of Teaching Videos.

Anyway, back to arms…

Arms are embracers, please embrace them.

Make this "Be Kind to My Arms" week.

The video is what happens in a Pro class. Which – dear reader – you know you have an opportunity to visit during our annual Golden Week residential in the first week of May, 2020. The year of the Tokyo Olympics.

Here’s the 3m & 16m video in case you didn’t finish it. Both versions here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvykdYrq0oNxo7oUaGT1S5w