30 Day Challenge #2

This week I learned that the way you hold your arms is a very important part of turning. You're arms should remain in a line with you heart at all time to they are not too far up or too far down which would throw off your balance and make you fall out of your turns. This also helps you have stability the whole time you are turning. It is also really important to make sure your arms do not move when you are turning. You need to your shoulder muscles and back muscles to hold them into place. If your arms do move your abdomen will become uncentered and you will loose your balance. Another major part of doing pirouettes is keeping your focus. If you don't focus on what needs to be happening with your body it won't happen. It only takes one disengaged body part to throw off your whole turn. Lastly I've leaned that you need to make sure that you only push off the floor with as much power as you need; not to little but not to much. If you push off your foot with too much force the power will propel you forward instead of straight up and you will fall out of your turn.
This challenge has been difficult because all the components of turning are so important and it's very difficult to try to remember all of them WHILE turning. It has been really hard but I can't wait to present my project to the rest of the class.