JOINING FORCES FOR AN INSTANT- Barcelona, 99
This pass is done with two partners. It starts with both of them facing each other. Aside from the "opening" sequence, all moves in this form are passes from the masculinity series. Both partners move simultaneously, except where stated otherwise. This series belonged to the nagual Lujan, a Chinese fisherman and martial artist, who lived in Mexico some 200 years ago. This is only a small portion of a form which is said to be much, much longer.
Opening
- Greeting: hands on knees, make eye contact, slide hands up the torso, arc them backwards while bending over, straighten the back and flick the forearms up presenting the hands with the palms up, elbows bent 90¡. - Inward move left arm, lift left leg while inward move right arm, look at your opponent from across your right shoulder. Now put both feet back on the floor.
- Three double forward pushes/punches with the balls of the hands, from high to low: one at shoulder height, one near the diaphragm, one to the hips.
- Outward circles: palms face front, fast circle right hand, slow and big circle left hand. This was once described as "hypnotizing your purpose".
- "Assessing the situation" (one of Silvio Manuels dance passes: hop left leg behind right, lift right, drop the right foot then the left back to their original position, and mirror). Engage the arms naturally in this movement and maintain eye-contact with your opponent.
Joining forces
- Partners move in back to back by taking
two or three sliding steps.
- Both partners perform "pushing down a pole of energy" 5X on each
side, alternating.
- Both partners turn around to face
each other.
- One partner does "polishing a high
table", the other simultaneously "using a cutting tool in both hands",
3 times each, then they switch.
- Both simultaneously perform "using
a cutting energy with one hand at a time" 3x for each hand, alternating,
starting with the left.
- Both do "pulling a rope of energy"
3x for each hand, one starts up, the other down.
- Both do "using a plane of energy",
3 times on each side.
- Both do "striking with a spike
of energy", 3 times on each side.
- Both do "pushing clasped energy
w/ the elbow and forearm" 1x on the right side.
- One partner does "cutting a circle
of energy" while the other does "the back and forth slash", 5x
with left hand on top, they do not switch.
- Both do, quickly one after the other, "cutting
energy in an arc" 3x on each side.
- Both do, quickly one after the other,
"the sledgehammer" 3x from the right side to the center.
- Both partners turn to face the same direction and perform "a digging bar of energy" 5x, left hand on top.
- Both partners stand relaxed and peer into infinity, awaiting something to come from there.