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flexagonMonday -- Pokemon was gone, and my class turned into a semiprivate with someone else and a substitute teacher who I will call Sink-Or-Swim. My results with SOS tend to be mixed, but she did something on this day that I really liked: had me kick up sideways to the mirror-facing wall, with one foot braced on it for balance, so that I could see myself sideways in the mirror. This let me, for the first time, adjust myself around AND see the adjustments. Sure, I've peeked sideways in the mirror before ("see that?") but somehow never when I could control my own body position and ALSO not worry about falling. Anyway, that stuff about pelvic tuck and "old man pants" is for real, my friends. The straight body is actually pretty extreme. Working on it.
Wednesday -- Pokemon still gone, this time the substitute was the tumbling teacher. Always a good time and a weird one, getting the gymnastics perspective. For this class we tried shoulder taps (none of us can do them) and then walking on hands, which is foreign but wasn't quite as awful as I expected. I managed to take 3 steps forward, 3 steps backward and, most fun anyway, 4 steps sideways. I like the sideways crab-walking; it's like block traversal but safe and reasonable for me to practice on my own.
Thursday -- we went to see Varekai, and the handbalancer was pretty funny. She pressed up on the same side every time she went up, and did about four really long one-arms all on the same side. A lesson. I wonder who it was... certainly not Alona Zhuravel, who's been in that role fairly recently, unless she was injured. I think we may have gotten an understudy.
My wrist's been a bit tweaky, and I'm taking good care of it because Bender is coming back for a four-week miniseries on pressing! That means I'm up to four handbalancing trainings per week for a while. I'm excited to see what Bender can do for me at this point, given that I've improved since the last time I worked with him.
Wednesday -- Pokemon still gone, this time the substitute was the tumbling teacher. Always a good time and a weird one, getting the gymnastics perspective. For this class we tried shoulder taps (none of us can do them) and then walking on hands, which is foreign but wasn't quite as awful as I expected. I managed to take 3 steps forward, 3 steps backward and, most fun anyway, 4 steps sideways. I like the sideways crab-walking; it's like block traversal but safe and reasonable for me to practice on my own.
Thursday -- we went to see Varekai, and the handbalancer was pretty funny. She pressed up on the same side every time she went up, and did about four really long one-arms all on the same side. A lesson. I wonder who it was... certainly not Alona Zhuravel, who's been in that role fairly recently, unless she was injured. I think we may have gotten an understudy.
My wrist's been a bit tweaky, and I'm taking good care of it because Bender is coming back for a four-week miniseries on pressing! That means I'm up to four handbalancing trainings per week for a while. I'm excited to see what Bender can do for me at this point, given that I've improved since the last time I worked with him.
