Leading Hand
Leading Hand is a trust exercise where a follower keeps a constant distance from their partner's moving hand, letting it steer their whole body like a puppet.
Leading Hand is a trust exercise where a follower keeps a constant distance from their partner's moving hand, letting it steer their whole body like a puppet.
The participants form pairs. In each pair, one player (A) leads and the other (B) follows. In this variant, B does not close their eyes. A holds their palm about 20 cm in front of B's face. With their head and their entire body, B now follows every movement of the hand, so that the distance between the hand and their face always stays constant. A can thereby steer B as desired (up and down, forwards, backwards, turning, tilting and so on), and B follows the hand entirely without will, like a puppet.
You can often observe that players make very beautiful, graceful movements during this exercise, ones they would otherwise perhaps never have made in this way.