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flexagonAnd now I'm on a BoltBus back from NYC to Boston. I said I would work in the NYC office today, but I don't desperately need to talk to the one person I could have productively met with, and I wanted so badly to come home. This way I'll be able to work from my usual office this afternoon, maybe attend handstand class tonight, and be back to normal. As my title perhaps implies, I'm on WiFi tethered from the Android phone in my pocket, because we live in the future.
It was an amazing two days of Dutch acro with teachers Det & Jim. I'm insanely glad that Scooper came down with me, and also that nobody else did, so we could focus. He and I work well together with figuring out new material, and together we got almost everything we were offered. Especially on Day 1, we got into a nice dynamic of learning things together and then splitting up to help others. (The Zillionaire I was going to work with -- and did, some -- is not NEARLY as strong or steady, as I suspected.) All this gushing aside, it was not Scooper but a giant New Yorker named Jake who talked me into my first no-training-wheels hand-to-hand on Saturday. Yeah. I still suck, but now I'm over that initial fear. Once I learn the right way to spot it, I'm almost safe to practice in the park. Not quite. But almost.
Awesome things learned include:
At the very end of the workshop, I hugged Det goodbye and she said I was very talented... what!!! I'm walking on air from that one. I mean, she teaches internationally, and doesn't seem like the type to just randomly say things she doesn't think. So that was AMAZING.
It was an amazing two days of Dutch acro with teachers Det & Jim. I'm insanely glad that Scooper came down with me, and also that nobody else did, so we could focus. He and I work well together with figuring out new material, and together we got almost everything we were offered. Especially on Day 1, we got into a nice dynamic of learning things together and then splitting up to help others. (The Zillionaire I was going to work with -- and did, some -- is not NEARLY as strong or steady, as I suspected.) All this gushing aside, it was not Scooper but a giant New Yorker named Jake who talked me into my first no-training-wheels hand-to-hand on Saturday. Yeah. I still suck, but now I'm over that initial fear. Once I learn the right way to spot it, I'm almost safe to practice in the park. Not quite. But almost.
Awesome things learned include:
- Pop up from calf to 2-high, for real. Not one foot at a time, but landing on both feet. They had some great drills that led up to that skill, which I'm happy to pass on (
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ellenclaire, I have a Google doc full of notes, which I will share with you). So great to get this. - Our first kettlebell swing! From the ground at first. Then from reverse thighstand, one can do a little one by squatting, then jumping, curling and being swung. I got the step-out from this really well, after some feedback, and Jim was pleased with me and I felt all pretty. :-) We discovered it is pretty easy to brush the ground (if too low) or the base's balls (if too high) but also that both of these may be glancing touches that don't necessarily kill the trick.
- A new entrance to standing front bird, which works really well and keeps me from wanting to straddle.
- A new, dynamic way to kind-of-cartwheel down from horse to handstand-on-thighs. Not to mention a nicer way up to horse.
At the very end of the workshop, I hugged Det goodbye and she said I was very talented... what!!! I'm walking on air from that one. I mean, she teaches internationally, and doesn't seem like the type to just randomly say things she doesn't think. So that was AMAZING.
