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I love how human bodies change (slowly but surely) in response to the things we do, and I love how I'm starting to be able to see that. On Saturday night when we saw Sequence 8, I was able to look at the two female performers and think "SHE'S the aerialist, so the other one must be -- yup, that's the handbalancer."
I also love how I can totally fly the Russian Roll now -- the Ant and I both got it for the first time on Saturday, apparently because we asked our favorite awesome pro base to please watch and tell us what we were doing wrong. He stared at us as we tried, and we busted the whole thing out. Crazy. I then did the same more a few times with the awesome pro base, who I am going to be less clever and just call Rocky from now on. After a few tries I even did it the other way with Rocky (with the base rolling to the right, instead of to the left). Today I spent time with the Ant & coaches refining it so that it's actually pretty, and pretty reliable.
Hmm, and today I also did my first pike dismount from standing hand-to-hand. I fail to find a video of this, but it's standing hand-to-hand where the flyer pikes down, comes between the joined arms of the base/flyer pair, and lands on the ground. It's kind of remarkable how fast the firsts keep on coming, right about now. I expect to plateau at any moment, but... not today, nope, today I get to bask in my pike-down (I love first successes so very much). Amusingly, people were coming in for the first session of some level 1 class right when we were finishing up, and they were watching us and they looked positively awestruck. SO ADORABLE.
Lots of other stuff going on that I'm far too tired to post about, except to say I am playing my part in things and it feels right. My father-in-law is gone and my house is my own again. Work is good. I ate too much sugar in the second half of today -- a brownie fueled those hand-to-hands -- but otherwise A+.
I haven't had an email signature for a long time, but now I have one:
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." - Thomas Merton
I also love how I can totally fly the Russian Roll now -- the Ant and I both got it for the first time on Saturday, apparently because we asked our favorite awesome pro base to please watch and tell us what we were doing wrong. He stared at us as we tried, and we busted the whole thing out. Crazy. I then did the same more a few times with the awesome pro base, who I am going to be less clever and just call Rocky from now on. After a few tries I even did it the other way with Rocky (with the base rolling to the right, instead of to the left). Today I spent time with the Ant & coaches refining it so that it's actually pretty, and pretty reliable.
Hmm, and today I also did my first pike dismount from standing hand-to-hand. I fail to find a video of this, but it's standing hand-to-hand where the flyer pikes down, comes between the joined arms of the base/flyer pair, and lands on the ground. It's kind of remarkable how fast the firsts keep on coming, right about now. I expect to plateau at any moment, but... not today, nope, today I get to bask in my pike-down (I love first successes so very much). Amusingly, people were coming in for the first session of some level 1 class right when we were finishing up, and they were watching us and they looked positively awestruck. SO ADORABLE.
Lots of other stuff going on that I'm far too tired to post about, except to say I am playing my part in things and it feels right. My father-in-law is gone and my house is my own again. Work is good. I ate too much sugar in the second half of today -- a brownie fueled those hand-to-hands -- but otherwise A+.
I haven't had an email signature for a long time, but now I have one:
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." - Thomas Merton
