Feb. 18th, 2013

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40 pistols on each side in the gym this morning, a kickass handstand class this evening with my handstand friends (I floated a one-arm for a tiny split second! heyyyyy what was that!), and trading lists of pistol variations with circus friends on Facebook.

How many pistol variations do I have in my pocket NOW? I'm rich!

  1. Regular pistols (toes pointed, toes flexed)

  2. Shrimp-to-pistol

  3. Elevated pistols with free leg hanging down

  4. Myotatic pistols, which I posted about once: go down, rise up to 90 degree knee, sink back down, then stand all the way up.

  5. Y-scale pistols: hold the free leg up and out to the side.

  6. Jumping pistols (start low, jump up onto something)

  7. Pistols holding a weight, either in both hands or with the opposite hand, hand right in front of shoulder, palm in.

  8. Renegade pistol: go down, switch legs, come up. No using stored energy.

  9. Cossack pistol -- explosively switch feet at the bottom. A Pavel Tsatsouline special that I don't entirely understand, but maybe it's like this.


Also, this is my new favorite "showing off my awesome base" video. He thinks he's showing off, but actually I'm showing him off. Hee.

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Also, my sprained wrist is totally getting better. Too bad I didn't take so much notice of when I hurt it, this time. I think it was the week of 1/14, so likely the handstand semiprivate of 1/17 is what really did it in. On 1/21 I borrowed my coach's Tiger Paw for class and that's the night I ordered my own (left-handed paw, because this time it's my left wrist).

That means I'm at 4.5 weeks now, able to do one-arms on that side again (with tiger paw, being careful) and just on the edge of being able to do crow again with no tiger paw.

The main difference between this time and last time is that it's the other wrist and I didn't panic. I guess it's also not as bad; I was at like 10 or 12 weeks, last time, before I was at this point. Resting it last week while I was on business travel probably helped.

I had forgotten how much I love handstands. <3

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