Wednesday @ acroyoga camp

[flexagon]

Today's awesome new things were:

1. basing "high foot-to-hand", which involves me lying down with my hands straight up and someone standing on those hands.


2. stradding up to the handstand blocks! I had a very active spot, but still.


3. Pike jump up to handstand! ...I had a spot here too, but still.

Today's awesome dialog, between puffs during a partner exercise:
"Do you do ashtanga?"
"Sometimes."
"How'd you get so strong?"
"Weightlifting!!"


Above was an ordered list, now we have an unordered list... exercises to take home.

• Press walks


• LOW tuck/straddle/pike jumps with elbows straight


• Down dog but adjusted like handstand


• Stand against the wall, "ribs down! shoulders up! ribs down!" I wonder if I could do this sitting in a straddle?


• Split handstand against the wall, flex feet, use fingertips to pull the HEEL off the wall


• Shoulderstand roll to pike jump


• V-ups


• Down dog pushups, or evils, or just push harder on military presses


• "The mark of an acrobat is knowing exactly what your body is doing when you can't see it."


• Press switches off the wall -- need to find exactly where to put fingers.

No idea how I'm supposed to go back from this environment, where I'm learning so fast, to the one where I only get 1.5 hrs of acroyoga per week. I have to remind myself how splendiferous that sounded only a year ago! And that Thursday acro is also good, and we're having a handstand workshop there soon, and I have other practices that I also care about and that are (refer to the dialog above) very complementary.

I am sitting overhearing the teachers planning and plotting. Jenny just said "It's gonna get hard tomorrow." Sooooooo... tomorrow I bust out the pants with the blue flames.