#move Visualize a tube. Move your arm through, one joint at a time. The arm is simplest to practice, but you can apply this to arbitrary chains (e.g. head-neck-chest-hip): ![[Wave - Bone train.png]] To maintain the illusion that your body is *liquid*, do not "break" the tube. That is, do not "strafe" sideways outside of the tube. The narrower you can make the tube, the cleaner the illusion. These visual cues may help: * Imagine the previous bone "displacing" the bone ahead of it (e.g. place your forearm where the hand used to be) * Imagine joints "threading" through a single point when the tube bends (e.g. your fingertip define a hoop, the wrist and elbow must thread through the same hoop) ### Don't forget the rest of your arm! A common mistake when waving is to focus so hard on one joint, that you forget what the rest of your arm is doing: ![[Wave - Bone train hyperfocus.png]] To overcome this, you must free up attention for rest of your arm: * **Practice** - [[Drill each wave isolation one joint at a time]]. This make any particular isolation more automatic, and less attention consuming * **Decrease Precision** - Widen the tube to make things easier. Progressively narrow the tube as you gain body control As you practice, identify which isolations look clean/unclean. Focus your attention on the motions that look the least clean. [[Focus on what is least clean when drilling]] ![[Wave - Bone train broad focus.png]]