Handstand & acro firsts on Friday
Jul. 25th, 2015 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI may be 38 and jaded and a slow learner, but I still have those eeeee! moments. :D
First -- I handstand-pressed off the inflated ball under my own power, which I think I've done before but this time I'm SURE Pokemon didn't help me. As long anticipated, the final piece of the motion was a pelvic tilt, and, counterintuitively, it FEELS like I'm shoving my butt back in the direction I came from. I know that because of physics it's also having the effects of bringing my legs in tighter (less torque) and pulling the middle of my back more over my fingers (the good direction), but that is not the feel, oh no. Least intuitive thing ever. It's actually kind of terrible, how wrong my brain can be about things like "which direction will this motion move me?", especially when it's something I really want to get right.
Second -- my first-ever successful courbette with the Ant last night! Bender was pulling lines and helped a smidge, but not a lot. I said two weeks ago that I thought we were close, and yep, we just needed some hints from A&P on flyer positioning. A little hollow and tiny underbalanced lean on the part of the flyer, at the right time, and suddenly I don't have to do much while actually in midair. It was my first partner acro first this year, and it felt good.
First -- I handstand-pressed off the inflated ball under my own power, which I think I've done before but this time I'm SURE Pokemon didn't help me. As long anticipated, the final piece of the motion was a pelvic tilt, and, counterintuitively, it FEELS like I'm shoving my butt back in the direction I came from. I know that because of physics it's also having the effects of bringing my legs in tighter (less torque) and pulling the middle of my back more over my fingers (the good direction), but that is not the feel, oh no. Least intuitive thing ever. It's actually kind of terrible, how wrong my brain can be about things like "which direction will this motion move me?", especially when it's something I really want to get right.
Second -- my first-ever successful courbette with the Ant last night! Bender was pulling lines and helped a smidge, but not a lot. I said two weeks ago that I thought we were close, and yep, we just needed some hints from A&P on flyer positioning. A little hollow and tiny underbalanced lean on the part of the flyer, at the right time, and suddenly I don't have to do much while actually in midair. It was my first partner acro first this year, and it felt good.
