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Figure 647. From this position shiftyour weight again to your front footand strike out for the front as inFigure 643.Figure 649. Swingingthe stick laterally, startas shown here, weighton your rea r foot.Figure 648. Be sure to swayyour hips toward your leftside to avoid the stick. Reversethe exercise from Figure643, going in rever set 0Figures 647, 646, 645, 644,and back again to 643. Afterwhich you should be able tocoup!e up the entire twirlingpractice and describe figure8's to the front and to therear in continuous sweeps ofthe stick or club.Deep breathing in stick-play is as important as in judopractice. Do not tense your muscles; keep relaxed.Figures 638, 639, 640, 641, and 642 illustrate the explanationgiven here, when the stick is swung from highin front toward your left hip, and then brought up to therear, and again over your head and to the front.The stick can also be swung from high in front downtoward your right hip, to the rear, and brought over yourhead to the front again (Figures 643, 644, 645, 646, and647)' Figure 648 illustrates how the body should be swayedout of line to let the stick swing past the right hip.Both of the above exercises should be coupled into onecontinuous twirling move, alternatingly swinging the stick