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Pain, loneliness, stillness, learning
Apr. 26th, 2013 05:37 pmI've finally learned exactly what motion MOST affects my injured hamstring fibers, which had been hard to isolate. So now when I'm bored in a meeting I cross my right ankle over my left, and I pull my right foot backward and up, hard, for 10 slow isometric pulses. The first set of every day hurts like fire. Hopefully it's breaking up the connections between healing muscle fibers that aren't going in the right direction... this kind of thing is what I like to visualize. Work it, stretch it, foam roller & lacrosse ball it, ultrasound it every night. Surely this can't hold out against 4-6 weeks of TLC.
I need it to get better, because the most recent thing my coach says is holding back my press is... my pike. ARGH, I used to have a good pike, and I took it for granted and lost it while I was obsessing about my pancake. Thinking about that kind of took my usual joy in touching my chest to the ground, this morning, and turned it to dust... alas. And I added some pike stretching. Honest to dog, any one attribute or strength is easy enough to develop, but trying to have the eighteen you need for a press handstand ALL AT THE SAME TIME is a bitch.
Scooper and the Ant are both gone for two and a half weeks while they're off getting certified as acroyoga teachers. Ugh. It's been over a week already and I want them back. That's why it's extra good that I managed to schedule two sessions working with Rocky in the meantime... and I'm pouring energy into solo skills and into basing. (I'm kind of dying to tell the boys that I based standing foot-to-hand on Weds and managed to do a lay-down, taking it to low foot-to-hand. That's a move they struggle with.) I can make killer progress with Rocky, but it only helps a little bit. I still miss them.
In better news, my static handstand holds have improved a lot in just the last two weeks. My coach pointed out that I was fighting way too hard for my adjustments and bouncing myself out of the balance when I was already in the right place... and that was just the observation I needed. I worked on calming down and being still, and trusting it (what is "it"? there's no base to trust. trust the ground? trust physics?) and WHAM my hold times basically doubled. When I find the right place, my handstands now feel a lot more the way crow pose does. This is not to say I can kick or jump to the right place with any regularity. But something's changed when I am there where it's about precision now, and less effortful. One day maybe I'll feel what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nevers used to say about falling down mostly happening when she lost focus, and not because of fatigue. But for now I still tend to lose it when I lose proprioception and something drifts.
I need it to get better, because the most recent thing my coach says is holding back my press is... my pike. ARGH, I used to have a good pike, and I took it for granted and lost it while I was obsessing about my pancake. Thinking about that kind of took my usual joy in touching my chest to the ground, this morning, and turned it to dust... alas. And I added some pike stretching. Honest to dog, any one attribute or strength is easy enough to develop, but trying to have the eighteen you need for a press handstand ALL AT THE SAME TIME is a bitch.
Scooper and the Ant are both gone for two and a half weeks while they're off getting certified as acroyoga teachers. Ugh. It's been over a week already and I want them back. That's why it's extra good that I managed to schedule two sessions working with Rocky in the meantime... and I'm pouring energy into solo skills and into basing. (I'm kind of dying to tell the boys that I based standing foot-to-hand on Weds and managed to do a lay-down, taking it to low foot-to-hand. That's a move they struggle with.) I can make killer progress with Rocky, but it only helps a little bit. I still miss them.
In better news, my static handstand holds have improved a lot in just the last two weeks. My coach pointed out that I was fighting way too hard for my adjustments and bouncing myself out of the balance when I was already in the right place... and that was just the observation I needed. I worked on calming down and being still, and trusting it (what is "it"? there's no base to trust. trust the ground? trust physics?) and WHAM my hold times basically doubled. When I find the right place, my handstands now feel a lot more the way crow pose does. This is not to say I can kick or jump to the right place with any regularity. But something's changed when I am there where it's about precision now, and less effortful. One day maybe I'll feel what
nevers used to say about falling down mostly happening when she lost focus, and not because of fatigue. But for now I still tend to lose it when I lose proprioception and something drifts.
