Bowing technique checklist (extract)

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• Shoulder is allowed to remain in, or close to, its comfortable natural resting position in relation to the body. No lifting: no slouching: no tightening. No matter what.
  
  
• Thumb is to be flexed at all times and its nail (flat plane) is not to be parallel with the line of the stick: the nail faces somewhat to the left as well as down. 
  
  
• Bow-hold is maintained throughout the length of the bow although it is malleable, bendy, active, responsive, sensitive, resilient and yielding.
  
  
• In down-bows the elbow always is rising and the wrist always is falling.
  
  
• In up-bows the elbow always is falling and the wrist always is rising.
  
  
• Movements tend to be started closer and closer to the fingertips as they become more rapid; closer and closer to the centre of the body as they become slower.