Advanced exercises: the throw readiness
Reach a target with a dart (or a stone, or a knife or any other object) with calm and concentration is useful but only covers a small part of what we really want to learn.
We are not preparing to become jugglers, almost immediately we have to project ourselves in the real context, we have to learn to throw:
- In an instinctive way
- Without hesitation
- Without having to take aim
- Towards a moving target
To get this kind of skills we need to develop:
- Spatial intelligence (evaluate the trajectory as in a three-dimensional map)
- Quick thinking (assess the situation instantly)
- A good throwing technique (to have control over power, speed and throwing method)
In this regard, here it is a very simple but interesting exercise:
- Let’s take 2 tennis balls
- Let’s find a closed room with no delicate objects
- Let’s freely hurl a ball in the air and / or let’s bounce it on the wall / floor
- Let’s immediately launch the other ball so hit the previous one
- The goal is to hit the first ball while is in the air (or after one or more bounces)
- We do not have to remain firm, this exercise has to be very dynamic
- When we lose a ball we have to run, to jump, to bend our knees to the ground and grab it
Let’s do not forget to keep track (first mental and then on phone/computer/paper) of how many times we reach the goal; the easiest method is to reason in blocks of 100 attempts thus obtaining the percentage through a simple division (eg. 50 centers of 200 shots correspond to an ability of 25%). In this way we will have the opportunity to assess our progress and / or the maintenance of our throw abilities.
The exercise in the professional version (for those who practice from a long time and has a well-developed spatial intelligence) provides that, after reaching the target, the practitioner has to recover or hit both balls with hands or feet (before they land or stop bouncing).
As we improve, we can start to carry out the throws also (and especially) during other exercises that, reasonably, allow it.
For example, during a workout with the hanging tennis ball / speedball: it can be interesting to keep 2-3 non-hazardous darts (eg. chopsticks) tucked into our clothing and, at the right time, when we focus a target, to make a throw; initially it will be not important if we fail or we reach the target, the idea is to learn to do not change in any way our pace of fight.
All these things may seem to us very difficult and actually, at first, we almost never achieve our targets: no matter, our spatial intelligence is only to be educated, with constancy the day will come when all this will be as natural as walking or breathing.
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