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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.

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Trust, Exercise, Calm, Pairs, Beginner, Attention

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How to Play Leading Hand

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.

Based on "Leading Hand" from improwiki, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE.

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