Ricardo -> RE: Do you use a flexed or flat wrist for Picado? (Jan. 29 2010 14:44:02)
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Weird- to me that adds unnecessary hand tension, but I can't really criticize a player as good as Vicente. This issue came up many years ago at FT. As you point out, "tension" in the pinky is unnecessary, but several players doing something weird with the pinky end up with tons of speed and control anyway. I feel like it is not a main contributing factor to speed. When I first started playing with fingers, I used to tuck my fingers up into my palm when doing picado (see Riqueni and some others, Sabicas maybe???), after seeing vids of Paco and Tomatito, I made conscience effort to keep the pinky and ring OUT, and the result is my pinky does the same deal as vicente here, and Tomatito, etc. It definantly made my hand feel better then it DID, but not sure if it slowed me down. The tension I personally feel is kind of natural, I never really noticed it or felt pain or tired when doing lots of picado. It is not so tense that it is like a tight fist, one could easily push it down while I was playing. But who knows? If it try to let the pinky down on purpose, my hand feels REALLY strange and not in control as normal. Anyway, other fast players do weird things with the pinky. When doing arps Nuñez and Tomatito EXTEND the pinky then curl it, it looks really weird. Paco de lucia sticks his pinky out sideways for picado, which again if I try that my had feels MORE tense then when I curl it up. Manolo sanlucar has a super relaxed hand, no weird pinky moves or anything, yet he is not exactly the picado monster that some of the others above are. Ricardo
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