The fundamental 'Role'
'Momentum walks'
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THE WHAT:
The 'Role' (ho-lay) is a fundamental movement for transitioning into and over the floor. It comes from the world of the fight/dance discipline 'Capoeira', where it is used as an integral evasive and linking movement and expressed in a variety of forms and variations. For the purposes of movement practice & understanding, it performed ROTATIONALLY in the TRANSVERSE plane, meaning that it links/integrates most immediately with movements performed in the same plane of motion (e.g. 'Bridge rotations' and 'Corta capim').
As well as an embodied understanding of rotational motion and the sensation of travelling "up & down the hills" as the center of mass (around the hips) naturally rises & falls with the movement, practice of the fundamental Role builds awareness of dynamic weight distribution between the hands and feet, force generation, coordination, familiarity with mid-level locomotion and more. For this reason this introduction to the fundamental Role is that of a very GROUNDED pattern, offering the potential to CHANGE DIRECTION at any point, at the will of the practitioner.
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