Thursday, March 3, 2011

Elephant pose (Training system of Kalaripayattu)

The exercises include a vast series of poses, steps, jumps, kicks and leg exercises. Most important is mastery of basic poses and leg exercises. Basic poses (vadivu) consists of animal poses with steps by which one moves to and from poses. Leg exercises are powerful and dynamic forms using legs as flexible as a band, and superior balance is required.
First, I introduce one of basic poses; elephant pose (gaja vadivu).

Elephant pose (Gaja Vadivu)
it represents the stability and dynamism of the elephant. it also allows the body to make a fluid movement keeping low posture(shortest posture possible for defence).

 


3 comments:

  1. Thanks for the wonderful post Chizukosan. It's so nice to read about it and understand the meaning of it fully. Waiting for more of your posts.

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  2. thanks for sharing elephant pose gaja vadivu

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