This move is called IruttiKaal in Malayalam. This clip is filmed in my Kalari Institute CVN Kalari, Thiruvananthapuram (as complicated as Massachusetts!). This is one of the toughest basic sequences for me. The hip joints have to be completely flexible to sit down completely like in full splits. I could not do it completely and my Gurukkal Rajasekaran Nair asked me not to do it. Children learn this easily and adults who are already flexible can do this, for others this is quite difficult. The spine turns around 360 or feels like it. And the gurukkal will pretty much manhandle the students. He would pull the kids’s hair to twirl around. It does not look too difficult while watching it. But one gets to do this, it is extremely demanding. One needs to coordinate the right and the left, twirl and change direction. When it is time to twirl, the brain needs to adapt so quickly as to where the body is and the control is important. The gurukkal would never be happy with the students. He would always complain and sometimes hit the children mildly to ask them to keep the focus. This is something I will have to practice next time I go to my Kalari Institute.
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Great video
Been reading Krishanamacharia’s Yoga Makaranda with Ramaswami this week. He translates karandi Sadhana as wrestling (half way through 2.4 where he’s talking about Yogabhyasa, archery and Karadi sadhana as the only three forms of exercise that give equal strength to the joints and blood vessels). However the english translater and Google translate it as stick fighting, wondered if you’ve come across wrestling referred to in this way.
Interesting too a page further on where he talks about foreigners stealing skills and knowledge and then reintroducing them as if they were their own. In light of the Singleton book it seems to suggest that K. perhaps saw the international physical culture movement as reflecting exercise traditions that had existed in india for centuries.
I am not aware of karadi sadhana. Karadi in one of the Indian languages means bear : )
I have not read Yoga Makaranda, I have read just the first few pages of the book in Kannada.