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Exercise for Waning by Taylor Spalding Here's an exercise to practice the notion of "Waning." If you haven't viewed the animated GIF, you should do that first. Now if that demonstration failed to elucidate, here's something you can do within your own body to help you realize waning. Before we get into the actual exercise let's do a little background work. The swing is really something we could define as a "damped driven pendulum." It's driven by the initial burst away from the ball and damped by the friction encountered in the muscular and skeletal structures of the body. These structures can only withstand a specific amount of driving before the entropy barrier is broken. When this barrier is broken chaos ensues throughout the body. And though one may be able to maintain the outward appearance of form (as this barrier is breached), the true form of the motion is irretrievably lost. This exercise is aimed at exploiting an analogous structure in the body to replicate the initial burst, waning, and welting. This analogous structure is the lungs and the technique is a breathing technique. Before you try this exercise, keep in mind one thing: This exercise is not to be performed during the actual swing as some kind of swing timing device. This is an elementary contemplation designed to evoke the nascent qualities of pure motion. Try this exercise while sitting or lying down. You may want to use this exercise while walking (or riding) to your ball. In fact, insomniacs may find this exercise to be a wonderful drug free cure for the malady of sleeplessness. Let's start out by doing a breathing exercise that mimics the bottom portion of the waning example (see the link above). This is easy. Take a huge fast breath filling your lungs to capacity. Now let the air out. That's it. For the purpose of this exercise let's suppose that absolute lung capacity is just past the entropy barrier. In simple terms, a full set of lungs is the same as overswinging. Obviously we want to do something different. OK? This time you'll want to start the same way. Take a huge fast breath (whening). But this time cut off your intent to fill up the lungs. If you do the exercise correctly you will continue to take in air as a reaction to your initial burst of intake. The only difference you will notice is that the rate of air intake will be at a constantly decreasing rate (waning). You will notice that your lungs reach just short of capacity on the last "teaspoon of breath." From here the breath out takes on the spirit of a very dynamic output (welting). And that's all there is to the exercise. Doing this form of the exercise will help you to approximate the top animation (again, see the link above). Inevitably you will notice that in the first exercise there is a "sharpness" in the moment between inhaling and exhaling and in the second exercise there is a "roundness" between inhaling and exhaling. Well, now there is nothing more to be said. You may also want to check out the animation at the top of the "True Gravity Numbers" page.
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