About:

In this game the student places the bean bag and the teachers hand and the teacher places the bean bag in the students hand. This direct contact can inform a lot about how hard, how soft, tension, firmness, yielding. This contact and exchange is organized by the shared rhythm and synchronizing.[]

Purpose:

Learn to share in a joint rhythm.
Develop a capacity for 'meeting' rather than 'dead fish energy' or 'beating energy'.
This exercise helps a student to develop a solid sense of stable pulse.
This exercise further helps students to differeniate and integrate their arms hands. Student may differeniate and integrate their arms and hands doing this exercise alone, but the added load of coordinating with another takes some of their processing energy.

This exercise helps a student be comfortable with in their own skin in relation to someone else.

Directions:

Level 1

This can be done sitting cross legged, sitting in chairs or standing. (The largest integration will come from standing.)  Teacher and student face each other palms up. Teacher places bean bag in students hand right hand. (best to place it in students dominant hand.) Teacher indicates to student to pass the bean bag into the teachers left hand. A the student passes the bean bag, their palm should face down while the teachers palm faces up. The teacher passes the bean bag hand over hand into hiser right hand. The teacher passes the bean bag in to the students left hand. The student passes the bean bag hand over hand into from hiser right hand. Once teacher and student can make these 4 passes smoothly and rhythmically, the teacher can set a number of reps to aim for. "Let's do 5 more times around." Be sure to celebrate the completion. If you didn't complete this yet, celebrate the effort and progress made so far.

Glitches:

• Student drops the bean bag
1. Teach student to grasp the bag with all their fingers, not just lay it on a flat palm
2. Let's play a little game. I want you to hold onto the bean bag. I am going to try to pull it out of your hand. I want you to keep me from pulling it out of your hand."
• Receives of passes the bean bag with the wrong hand. (usually their dominent hand.
1. Point to or touch the hand that they are to use. (best to give these instructions non verbally or add words to the non verbal cues.)
2. Student slams the bean bag into the teachers hand
1. "oww", I want you to be more gentle. Then teacher puts bean bag into the students hand modeling the right amount of velocity and pressure. "Pass it to me this hard, no harder."

Level 2 - Pass Behind the Back

Level 3 - On Balance Boards

Once students can effectively do Pass a Bean Bag Hand Over Hand, keeping the pattern and rhythm, have them do the game while standing on balance boards.

Level 4 Calling Switch

Neuroscience:

[ ? tackle information - ashley monteque, Touching]

Extension:

'Watermelon' with partner

Next:

Pass Two Bean Bags Hand Over Hand - Teacher Student

Pass Two Bean Bags Hand Over Hand - With A Partner