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Insights #1
57m
Hanshi Bruce Juchnik opens the twelve-tape Insights series with a class focused on advanced Octagon work and how to describe movement properly to a student. The discussion covers the relationship between projected and retracting sides of the body, triangulation across the upper and lower planes, why teachers default to surface-level descriptions out of laziness, and the box-triangle-circle progression of how a practitioner first encounters movement, refines it, and finally allows triangles to live within the circle. The class works through choosing which center to use during an Octagon shift, why the practitioner moves twice instead of once, and the importance of using Japanese terminology when teaching beginners.