What has Dancing, Swimming and Singing got in common?
Posture, Breathing and Rhythm!
Dancing
Has anyone reading this watched Strictly Come Dancing?
Have you seen how challenging it is for a celebrity to get their ‘posture’ right?
Breathing correctly enhances the way a person dances too!
Take the boxer Joe Calzaghe (sorry if you reading this Joe). In as much as he has an outstanding career as a boxer, no one explained to him that leaning forward all the time to box would have a detrimental effect upon his posture.
Whilst Joe was with Strictly, learning the steps and how to dance he always went into the posture that was part of his makeup, leaning forward. Obviously Kristina tried very hard to help Joe with his posture so that he stood tall as he danced, but what a hard task it must have been for Joe.
I have watched every Strictly show because I am very interested in how celebrities manage to take on board the very elementary thing, walking tall and not looking down towards the floor about 10ft away. It is as if a person is looking for that odd £50 note (used to be a £1 when I was young!) During my time of teaching adult swimming lessons in my private swimming pool to use the water properly not only is the body posture the challenge but also the hands and legs!
Why do I say that?
Adults Learning how to Swim
The golfer: whilst concentrating on becoming streamlined the hands will curl in the water as if her/she is holding a club.
The IT/driver: When stretching forwards to become streamlined will push forward using their wrists making the hand rise up out of the water.
The person always sitting down: will use hips to move legs or push hips out of the water to complete a leg stroke. The predominant movement is to push the hips backwards to sit down.
The person who sits on 1 leg/leans to one side: when in the glide position the leg they sit on will lie higher in the water causing the kick to be lopsided. Leg that is sat on will kick higher in the water , whereas the other leg will naturally kick down.
The long distance runner: he/she will always drop their shoulders causing the legs to drop, no matter how hard they streamline their body. When running shoulders are never high. Have as mental picture of a swimmer on the starting block waiting to dive into the water, where are his/her shoulders, high or low?
The weight lifter: the muscles are very toned preventing the would be swimmer to learn how to relax or tense parts of his/her body to cause the streamline effect.
I could go on and on.
The person that swims already, normally from childhood and has a profession that incorporates these challenges for the would be swimmer, can get away with work related posture………….read on for Singing….
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