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Connor from Understaff3D

After years of physical therapy to manage living with 47 degree scoliosis, by complete accident I found the Dragon staff and quickly became obsessed with replacing PT with flow. I spent all my savings and 5 years now creating custom 3D printers while designing and redesigning my own dragons from the ground up to be able to control all of the variables and more. I have since shifted my focus to creating classes, using my engineering background to determine how to best record, communicate, and teach all of the things I’ve learned along the way, otherwise what was the point? Thus I teach a completely free all-welcome weekly dragon class and burn session in Nashville Tn where flow is “”harder”” to find due to politics and pyrotechnic laws. In regards to flow I enjoy exploring very techy Dragon Staff and rationalizing moves all down to basics in order to be able to expand on concepts in unique ways, particularly with legwork, tosses and vertical static moves.

Dragon Staff Ep. 1 Think Like a Dragon
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SOKFI7d0bMIhnCY9Rk_AW0k6OzB5Gh34/view?usp=drive_link This Class is meant as a way to help form the performers brain to the concept of a dragon staff, rather than have them focus on learning every individual move that could ever exist. By knowing how a dragon moves and being able to label those motions is the start. Being able to exercise the base level motions with the knowledge of how they could possibly interact, one can not only train with much higher efficiency, they can think much faster on the spot. This is due to better mind map organization, lending to increased improv abilities.