Press progress!

[flexagon]

To my intense joy, the wrist pain I wrote about last month has continued to subside. I'm still on a steady diet of ibuprofen, but today after many weeks off I decided it would be fine to practice handstands on my own instead of saving it for class-time.

I was right! And, damned if I didn't figure out how to repeatedly straddle press up from crash mats. This is something I've been working on with coaches; I'd managed it ONCE on my own before. Today I did it about 12 times, eight of which are caught in this video (along with two split presses, for fun).

Murphy's Law still being in full effect, the two times I pressed up and held my balance are not in the above video. They happened, they did! But the above is all press-and-fall, most of it with lousy form.

The reason this makes me so happy is that I'm not limited by strength, on this, and probably not by flexibility. It's proprioception, the feel of the fucking thing, that's so hard for me. If I get good at pressing off of here, I think I'll hit a point where I can progress down to lower surfaces fairly straightforwardly.

Comments

[melebeth]

That made me miss esh. I should hit some open practices and see how my leg holds up. Also, I greatly enjoyed the look on your face the first time you ended up back on your belly on the mats.

[flexagon]

you should totally come, I agree! It's good to fall sometimes over, sometimes under, but, yeah, WUMP on the belly. Sigh.

Handstands!

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

That crash mat pressing into handstands is AWESOME! You must be absolutely thrilled! I must try that the next time I'm near some crash mats. :)