Thursday at camp...
Nov. 5th, 2009 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonToday's flows and exercises, holy crap. I cannot believe I based these things.
Two-highs were a big challenge for some people today, but I had done them before, so I was able to give my flyer a good secure experience with that. I'm glad... I'm getting tired today, emotionally but physically too. Starting to miss the things I don't have here, where I don't get to do a lot of backbends and I don't get to fly except for super briefly with my same-size trio. All the basing is stiffening me up. As for that emotional exhaustion, well, I never realized before just how much bases care about their flyers and don't want them to come to harm. It's a bit spooky. But I've just logged more hours flying and spotting E than I have flown any single other person, and a lot of it's been right on the edge of what we can do, so I think it's understandable.
Last night, playing around in the common area, I was basing barrel roll and trying to teach it, and we didn't have a spot. Managed to come down sideways and hit my anklebone on a wooden floor. It's just a bruise, but it made me realize how careful I should be in the context of an intensive. A real injury last night (and my ankle did feel tweaky for a bit) could have cost me 8-9 hours worth of training. I feel like I got off with a warning.
- Low (supported) foot-to-hand, to box, to high foot-to-hand (!), to reverse throne (!!!), waterfall, walkover out.
- Star to low hand-to-hand handstand (!!!!).
- Straddle bat, helicopter to free shoulderstand, helicopter to straddle bat. Only with super hands-on spot.
- People wandering in a group, with someone randomly shouting "I'm falling" as everyone else hauls ass to save them.
Two-highs were a big challenge for some people today, but I had done them before, so I was able to give my flyer a good secure experience with that. I'm glad... I'm getting tired today, emotionally but physically too. Starting to miss the things I don't have here, where I don't get to do a lot of backbends and I don't get to fly except for super briefly with my same-size trio. All the basing is stiffening me up. As for that emotional exhaustion, well, I never realized before just how much bases care about their flyers and don't want them to come to harm. It's a bit spooky. But I've just logged more hours flying and spotting E than I have flown any single other person, and a lot of it's been right on the edge of what we can do, so I think it's understandable.
Last night, playing around in the common area, I was basing barrel roll and trying to teach it, and we didn't have a spot. Managed to come down sideways and hit my anklebone on a wooden floor. It's just a bruise, but it made me realize how careful I should be in the context of an intensive. A real injury last night (and my ankle did feel tweaky for a bit) could have cost me 8-9 hours worth of training. I feel like I got off with a warning.
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Date: 2009-11-07 03:17 pm (UTC)Home again now... today will bring some remedial / rebalancing weightlifting and lots of stretching out. Or at least this is the plan.
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Date: 2009-11-07 09:42 pm (UTC)