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WRIST EXERCISES

Wrist exercises are designed to strengthen your wrist, prevent injury and increase the range of motion in your hands as you’re learning the piano.

Before you practice:

The Beauty Pageant Wave - named after the typically graceful albeit unnatural wave that beauty pageant contestants and royalty seem to favour. This is rotating your wrist clockwise and anticlockwise while your arm forms a right angle with fingers pointing to the sky. The Finger-flexer - put one arm out straight in-front with your palm facing forward, like the ‘stop’ signal, then with your other hand gently bend the fingers of the ‘stop’ hand back toward the elbow so that the palm and underside of the wrist feel tight and stretched. This movement works similar to the hyper-extend, it stretches out parts of the hand that we normally have caved inwards, you’ll also eventually increase your range of motion here. Don’t overdo it, be gentle on yourself. The Zombie - put arms out straight in front with both palms extended forwards and fingers to the sky (like the ‘stop’ signal) then completely relax your hands forward so that the fingers point down, this should be a relaxed, floppy movement and not controlled. This is gently allowing your wrists to relax downward, again a movement that seldom occurs in daily life. This action is one we employ to put our fingers on the keyboard and when we check in with our body posture we should regularly do this movement to ensure our wrists are relaxed while we play. The Mermaid - arms out in front of you use your hands to mimic the movement of a mermaid’s tail & body. Slowly lead with the wrists to point fingers up and down, up and down. This movement should flow freely. This is a relaxing exercise designed to expose our wrists to their full range of motion. An extension on this exercise is to turn your hands in a figure eight from left to right both clockwise and counter-clockwise, all the work here is done from the twisting of the wrists alone. The Air-Hostess - This mimics the action an air-hostess does pre-flight to indicate the exits in the plane. With arms out in front, elbows slightly bent, lift hands to extend out straight in front with palms facing. Maintaining this position, gently move your hands so that the fingers point upward (toward the sky) and downward (toward floor). The movement here is all in the wrists, it should be gentle - you will not get your fingers actually pointing to the sky or floor, but the movement downward and upward will gently warm the sides of the wrists.

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The Motorcycle grip - with arms out straight in front of you, clench the fists and have your top knuckles pointing to the sky. Then, as you would ‘rev’ the engine on a motorcycle with the handle grips, bend your wrists back and forth in a smooth controlled motion. This is a sort of massage for the front and back of our wrists. Do this action a few times then relax the hands downward. Then repeat. The Reverse Motorcycle Grip (or ‘HEX’) - this is the same movement essentially but with the controlled movement and the relaxed movement reversed. With your hands in a closed fist but relaxed, loll then on the wrists as if you were shaking dice in each hand. Then with control, flick your fingers out and down so that the wrist is bent downward. This replicates the action of rolling and throwing a die, or as per the name, casting a witch’s spell. Jelly Limbs - is to stand with arms fully relaxed at your side and move around shifting your weight from leg to leg, and allowing your arms, wrists and fingers to completely relax and flop around. This releases tension.

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