Training pays off

[flexagon]

In the park last Sunday I took The Bad Fall from standing h2h for the first time in well over a year. Scooper had pressed me up to exended, and we started to lose it up there, so he brought it back down to shoulder height... trouble being that, for whatever reason, it came down with a jolt that broke my shoulder line. I planched forward and my face pitched straight down, and I squeaked in fear and dismay.

And then? We had time to react. I kept my arms engaged, we both kept our grip, Scooper pulled UP as hard as he could: all the right things. I tumbled, and landed with one butt cheek on the ground, no harder than I've landed from L-basing a million times.

SO GRATEFUL, people. All that training. Whew.

Comments

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

Once your committed something to muscle memory, it just works. I've had situations where I've fallen and gone into a dive, only to curl up and roll out of it. A long period of aikido as a kid and I've never lost the ability to roll out of a fall.

Glad you didn't get hurt!

[nevers.livejournal.com]

eek! and also, awesome!

[flexagon]

Yup. So nice to have at least two people reading this who know exactly what fall I'm talking about!

Also, last night Scooper and I did our first standing h2h piston. It was hard! But awesome because we did it!

[ellenclaire.livejournal.com]

*That* is why we train: so that when things do go wrong, they might not actually go too terribly wrong. Glad you're ok!