Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-01-09 19:35
<<The snort, sounds like what Mr. Bloom used to speak about, that the air needs to be 'forward and from the mask'. This is something that Mr. Killmer spoke of also, but the sensation that the air is coming from the bridge of your nose seems much easier to understand for me, anyway.>>
Well, we may all be talking about the same thing. Although Mr. Sorton did in fact specifically mention a "three-step" process, more or less as I have summarized, he did also speak of the air coming from the bridge of the nose, and he spoke of the breath as being akin to the preparatory beat in conducting.
In my experience, when I try to do what I think Mr. Sorton said to do, it feels very much like the description you are attributing to Mr. Bloom -- of the air being "forward and from the mask". That, in particular, is the part that I wasn't getting in my prior attempts to make clean attacks. My air was too low and too far back. So, however one describes it, I have learned a great corrective to a troublesome problem I was having.
As for this creating an "explosive" attack, for some reason, it doesn't seem to work that way.
I know I've read this, but right now, I don't remember -- with whom did Robert Bloom study? Did he study with Tabuteau? (Mr. Sorton was a student of John Mack at the Cleveland Institute.)
Susan
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