Our group here in Perth practices spinning hands (SH) every class. We do soft and hard, static and moving. We rotate members to get different feels with different members. We practice upper and lower control, add pushes and pulls etc. while we focus on absorb and project. Sometimes we do SH while sitting too which gives you a bit of a break with your structure in that you can just forget your lower body for a while.
When I'm on my own I pratice the 8 spins in the frontal and horizontal plane, I can only really find 4 practical spins in the sagital plane althought there are more. Then I do them with movement ie. footwork, big to small, close to far, that sort of thing and sprinkle them through a review of the 15 basics (see underlined). As in it's easy to see a connection between N, S, E and W and SH as well as concave and convex. Depending on how I feel this can keep me busy for 10 min to 2 hours if I have the time. I try to connect with some aspect of the 15 basics eveyday.
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