TODAY'S TIP (via John 7/22/2010): To achieve formlessness and total freedom of motion, do Contact Flow just as if you're polishing the sphere and your training partner is washing your body. No resistance. No planning. No forming weapons. Nothing logical. Nothing set up. Completely intuitive movement. No defending or protecting. Just move into your training partner while polishing in his direction while your body moves with his movement as if it's being washed. Don't care about hitting or being hit. The goal is complete formlessness and elimination of conscious direction. Of course, to do this, you have to be able to do polishing the sphere and washing the body correctly, subconsciously, from your feet. If you can get it going, it's a very liberating exercise, and should inform all your contact flow practice.
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