My first thought was to suggest that you practice some techniques at 1/4 time. What the SCA refers to as "slow work", but I had another idea.
My primary art these days seems to be blues dancing. In blues dancing, you aren't supposed to be on the beat, you're supposed to be behind it. And the follower, is supposed to be behind the leader. To learn to do this I had to, big surprise, slow down. One of the ways I learned to do this was to pay better attention to my follower (uke). I'm not quite following my follower, but I am listening (or at least trying).
Is it possible that your problem is not that you need to slow down, but rather that you need to connect better with you uke? That rather than doing the technique with your partner, you are rushing ahead and just assuming that they will catch up?
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My first thought was to suggest that you practice some techniques at 1/4 time. What the SCA refers to as "slow work", but I had another idea.
My primary art these days seems to be blues dancing. In blues dancing, you aren't supposed to be on the beat, you're supposed to be behind it. And the follower, is supposed to be behind the leader. To learn to do this I had to, big surprise, slow down. One of the ways I learned to do this was to pay better attention to my follower (uke). I'm not quite following my follower, but I am listening (or at least trying).
Is it possible that your problem is not that you need to slow down, but rather that you need to connect better with you uke? That rather than doing the technique with your partner, you are rushing ahead and just assuming that they will catch up?
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