Wow, nice session today with Adam, Pete, David and Will (Adams visiting friend)
Steven was there (he owns a healthy drinking brand) getting some footage for an upcoming youtube video promoting the drink. This video will feature UCC. The footage was cool but to be honest I think it wasnt enough. He seemed pleased though.
I myself feel good about the day, I felt heavy and lazy when we got there but started to get into it slowly as the day went. I want to start working on this one wall flow that I do once in a while. Basically it is a flow of as many consecutively, non stop, different techniques over one wall one hop at the time, transition onto the next technique, over and over until the flow dies (repeting same technique). I am as far as 5 to 7 diff moves until it dies or I repeat the move. Hard to explain, but I might get a vid soon.
Imagine this, you are in front a waist high wall, you do a lazy over it, land and right away do a reverse safety vault back, then a lazy sit to land on the same site, then a two handed vault to lazy turn finish with a money, and that would be a small combo. It works flow, coordination, creativity, reflect, reaction time, stamina etc. When done right it feels really good and smooth. Did several of those and felt really nice. I need to included more of those into my training. I just need to find the perfect wall.
At the bank didnt do much, some kong to precision, small flow. Small stuff, I was still feeling heavy and lazy.
We walked to this new spot Adam found, not much really but cool stuff. Didnt stop there, he wanted to show me something else. I did a precision onto a rail that was very unstable, but didnt really care, I was a bit short and move just enough for me to mis it and hit my shins all the way up to my knees, after a bit of walking it off, I went again for it just to teach the rail who the boss was. Did it fine. Great spot for conditioning and several precision of all widths and drop levels. Lots of cool stuff to do power hoping or high box jump exercises. I am jumping up somewhere around 5ft up from standing so far.
There is this beautiful water fountain, about 25ft high with a gap (where the water falls from, so not really a empty space gap) of about 9 to 10ft, Adam spotted a good precision opportunity to which he said was a bit out of his reach but that I could give a try. I was surprise at how I just stood up there and after taking a few second to asses the situation I just went for it and stock it the first try, mostly because it was almost right at my max gap jump and also because I didnt wanna focus on how high it was and how bad it would be if I felt short. I did it once, and had to do it again in order to get back down without getting wet. Stock it the second time even better. Very pleased I got down.
Once down looking at how beautiful a shoot would be I asked the guys to film it, got back up and the so famous "camera curse" came to mind, which kinda made me hesitate a bit but I wanted the shot really bad. I sharpen my focus and without a problem made the first leap, the time to come back came around and I was about to make my second leap when I looked down (mainly to give the shoot a little drama, and jumped back.... No problem. Very pleased again, I said, that is it of this guy for today.
I also did a standing backflip on hard surface (hadnt in done it in over 3 years) that was VERY clean. Drilled side flips on hard and grass lots of times, gaining height which I did. Did several front flip which height pleased me very much, I seem to be improving in my blocking.
I did a couple side flip on flat, need to work on height, but when David asked me to flip over him, I got great height, to which he said "you just need to have something in front of you to make you jump higher"
We finish at this one spot where we did several jump up's onto a wall about 5 ft high, from standing and jog. Did some kong to precision, to front flip off of what I think is the highest I have flipped off onto concrete, a bit over 5ft. I am feeling very comfortable and confident about my front flips onto concrete and very happy at how small but consistent progression is the best way to go.
Last time I flipped onto concrete was around 3ft, today I just went for it and felt natural. No need to go to a very high ledge (roof) to flip off of, maybe with time that will just come naturally. I am happy at staying on 5 to 6ft for a while.
Over all a really good day.
Here is the vid of the precision jump over the water fountain, I just recorded it from the little screen on the camera to my cell to show it to Amanda. So the quality and horrible but even better to just tease you and have you waiting for the original footage.
