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flexagonI fell asleep on Friday feeling all discouraged about my flexibility, and then had a really realistic-feeling dream about doing an easy, slow-motion front walkover in my kitchen. (I've done them over a giant foam octagon thing in gymnastics, so I guess that's where the idea of what they feel like comes from.) Now that I'm awake again... bah. I think my mind hurt my body's feelings -- it performed especially well in the gym yesterday, as if to ask what the problem is. It even did a straddle-up that felt easy, following which I couldn't do another one at all. What can I say, body... occasionally I still get really, really jealous and think things I shouldn't. I'm sorry. Truce. :b
And today I finished inventing a drill I really like for straddle-ups. Here it is: I assume the position, feet a couple of feet apart, a foot or so behind hands. Then I rock backward and forward, trying to transfer as much weight as possible between feet and hands. On the rocks forward I start jumping up (but not much) and trying to press up, just enough to get some air time. I jump a little harder each time, keeping some momentum going, until I'm getting all the way up. Today I did two in a row that way. :)
Then I came home and tried to wrap my head around this, with, well, more success than last week, anyway. Our book club at work is really getting beyond how to use a language and moving into how to design a language. It's cooler and more head-wrappable than I thought it would be, though still a definite challenge.
And today I finished inventing a drill I really like for straddle-ups. Here it is: I assume the position, feet a couple of feet apart, a foot or so behind hands. Then I rock backward and forward, trying to transfer as much weight as possible between feet and hands. On the rocks forward I start jumping up (but not much) and trying to press up, just enough to get some air time. I jump a little harder each time, keeping some momentum going, until I'm getting all the way up. Today I did two in a row that way. :)
Then I came home and tried to wrap my head around this, with, well, more success than last week, anyway. Our book club at work is really getting beyond how to use a language and moving into how to design a language. It's cooler and more head-wrappable than I thought it would be, though still a definite challenge.
