Finding balance with the monk spade
I chose the Monk Spade as my weapon this year, because I knew it would help me connect my hips and shoulders better. With the weight of the weapon I have to utilize my hips and the rest of the body to swing it around. The hurdle I'm experiencing with this, is controlling the weight, and not letting it throw me off balance. There is a technique that I've been working on that Sihing Simon Kohut helped me with, and I am having trouble finding stability in the pose. Basically I'm crouch down in a sort of narrow kneel stance, with both hands near one end of the monk spade, and trying to lift the weight to keep the tip, in this case the spade part, up. The problem I'm having is as I'm twisting and corkscrewing down into the ground, the other vector of the spade is going up and out. More often or not, this is creating instability and I can't hold the pose long. Not all the time. There are times I can pull off the move, and I'm really trying
