Dying young in midair

[flexagon]

A friend of TBC's died last weekend in a car accident, and invincible Steve Irwin too. It really makes me think how pissed I would be to die young and not see some of my longer-term plans play out.

Also, I realized lately that I might be bad at jumping into handstand because I'm bad at generating force when I jump, period. Once I was good at that, but all these years of slow-movement exercise might have taken their toll. Time for a few plyometric exercises maybe.

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[flexagon]

I don't know. I'm sure I could do some plyo on my own, and right now I do none, so that'd be an improvement. :)

How much did you do -- or rather, any sets of exercises you would recommend? I was just going to do some jumps, basically. I had no real plan.

[nevers.livejournal.com]

i tried to do the plyo program outlined here, but it as way too ambitious for me:
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0879.htm

so i just gave up on working on it on my own. what we do in class is things like tuck jumps, bringing your knees as high as possible; jumps with your legs straight, just bouncing off your toes, but not really bending and flexing your ankles much either (i don't really understand these...); and jumping forward and then back as far as possible.