ABSTRACT
Apart from acrobatics, Torgeir also taught the principles of the work on balance and slow motion. Learning how to perform some physical exercises in slow motion such as handstands, headstands, bridges and somersaults was essential for the development of my physical intelligence. If acrobatics helps the author to overcome the barrier of fear by restricting the time for reflection, slow motion helps her to visualise mentally every detail of the moving body. Slow motion does not simply consist of 'moving slowly'; it is also the result of an internal impulse that starts from the 'snake'. The author can thus improvise with the principle of slow motion without performing fixed exercises, but she have to keep a constant eye on not breaking the basic rule of moving very slowly. In a forward roll in slow motion author create a body from which, like a Cubist statue, various vectors of energies are radiated simultaneously and in various directions in the space.
