SOM.1:4 - Solution

SOM.1:4.1 - Choose the action interval

Name the required result and choose an interval in which the difficulty appears. Recover the support, contact, timing and other conditions that can change that result. State what must continue while the proposed correction is made.

For a dancer, the interval may include transferring support during a turn while steps and partner interaction continue. For a writer, it may be the part of a stroke where forearm support changes. Use the technique and criteria of that practice.

SOM.1:4.2 - Relate three accounts

Describe:

• Experience: where a change is felt, its direction and how it develops.
• Regulation: what the performer can deliberately increase, decrease, release or coordinate in those conditions.
• Movement result: the relevant change in contact, position, timing or produced result.

Locate the experienced change by a bodily landmark and direction. Use the resolution the performer can distinguish. Subdivide an experienced region only when the finer distinction changes the attempt. A location in this account does not by itself identify a muscle, tissue or physical cause.

Keep an observer’s report and the performer’s report attributable to their respective observations. If the performer cannot yet express a distinction, comparison, pointing or a demonstrated contrast may make it describable.

Include an involuntary response when its observed effect matters to the movement. Record whether the performer can change it separately from whether they notice it. Use the proposed connection to decide which previously unattended effort to investigate; eliminating all background effort is not the task.

SOM.1:4.3 - Propose a change and a test

State the connection in ordinary working language: “When I change this effort, I expect this part of the action to change, while these other actions continue.” Name what would count against that expectation.

Try a small, familiar change within the practice’s limits. Compare the bodily report and the movement result. Use another observation or attempt when inspecting everything within one action would itself disrupt it. Preserve differences between those attempts; do not infer a cause from an uncontrolled comparison.

When comparing attempts or passing the result to a teacher, retain the conditions and separate what was felt, what was deliberately changed, what could be repeated and with what help, and what happened in the movement. A brief spoken account or note is enough when it supports the next choice. Describe felt intensity separately from the location or extent of the felt region when this distinction changes the attempted correction. Being able to notice, regulate and reproduce a change are separate results.

Check external conditions when bodily control appears available but the result still fails. Change an available external condition if the work permits it. A restored result can establish a useful alternative without establishing why the earlier condition failed.

SOM.1:4.4 - Choose the next move

If the proposed change cannot be distinguished, use SOM.2. If it is distinguishable but not controllable, use SOM.3. If its constituents are available but their combination is not, use SOM.4. A change in support or load can require SOM.5 together with those operations.

Retain an effective external adjustment without assigning unnecessary bodily learning. If the original conditions are mandatory, seek an explanation or technique appropriate to those conditions. When the observations cannot distinguish the remaining explanations, state the missing observation rather than selecting a bodily cause.

Revise the model when a local correction fails in the whole action. End with a connection supported by the observations in the tried conditions, an available alternative, or a specific unresolved relation that determines the next attempt. Stop a physical attempt that produces pain, dizziness or an unfamiliar loss of control.