hey it's Paul Ingram welcome back to the
Marshall Flex Channel today we're
working on staff spin number two if you
missed staff spin number one I'll put a
link up here in the corner go back learn
staff spin number one it might help you
to learn this spin but if you're just
coming across this series right now feel
free to begin right here with staff spin
number two just make sure to go back and
also learn number one staff spin number
two is our upward figure eight and we're
going to hold the sta roughly in the
middle make sure that that off hand
that's not being used sits right here at
the plexus right in front of the chest
right in the middle there and I'm going
to take a right lead so the staff is in
my right hand so I want the right foot
forward if you're Crossing up and you're
just learning this you might end up uh
hitting your calf and stuff so it's best
to start off whatever hand you're using
start with that same side leg forward
that way you don't be whacking your calf
or whacking your shin or anything like
that now from here my right hand is
going to start kind of down by my right
hip here and I want you to think of the
pinky is going to point in the direction
of the rotation of the staff and we're
going to begin with the whole arm
movement so I'm going to be drawing an
eight like a sideways eight like the uh
infinity sign in front of my body and
I'm going to be using the whole arm
right now in the beginning this is good
to learn the movement get the whole body
integrated into the Figure 8
pattern once you have this coordination
then we can start putting the focus of
the spin more to the Elbow so we're
going to shorten the
rotation of the upper Figure
8 and once you're feeling good with that
then we go ahead and put the rotation
into the
wrist start nice and
slow but once you have it pretty well
coordinated with the rotation in the
wrist this is when we can begin to speed
things
up okay same thing from the other side
let's take a look at another view
holding the staff roughly right in the
middle hand is going to start right next
to the right hip my right hand and we're
going to come upwards drawing our figure
eight starting off engaging the hole on
arm now again that little Pro tip make
sure that your uh same side foot is
forward the same side hand that you're
working the spin
with and once your arm has the motion
put it into the
elbow and then transfer the spin to the
wrist and just gradually work
on smoothening it up and increasing the
speed
now it's also a good idea to learn the
staff spin with the left arm and start
getting it coordinated you're just going
to mirror everything and it's really
important because as we continue with
our staff spinning techniques we're
going to be alternating hands and we're
going to need the coordination of our
first two staff
spins so once again if you missed the
first one I'll put these uh this little
series into a playlist and you can just
save the playlist and then you'll have
all of the staff spins once they're all
released start off with one and two get
them down and then I'll catch you back
here next time for staff spin number
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