Need some help in
this thread please. Must start a new cycle that will reflect my insane work/dance school load: 12-14 hour days M-TH, 8 hours of work Friday, rehearsals Saturday, PK Sunday.
Been working handstands between classes a lot. I'm working on straightening. My toes are more pointed, my body is longer, I must get my head/neck a bit less arched. Times are improving (no stopwatch use, though, to measure by how much) and my feel for the hold is as well. I'm also working on transitioning from feet together to straddle and back, and trying incorporate shoulder sways. These are to help with the progression to one arm HS, a "someday" goal.
Found a bunch of new little training spots at my school today. Mostly tree stuff: brachiations, catleaps, etc.
My backwards cat balance up rails on stairways is greatly improving, though I haven't trained it much lately. The 15-20 foot rail in front of my film class used to stifle me, I could only get two steps at most. Today it was easy. I used to train cat balance
ceaselessly, but lately have been working more on bigger moves: precisions, cranes, catleaps, wall runs. All I can think of is that ballet is really helping my balance, which was already my strongest skill area. Zac Cohn showed me some rad walking rail balance variations @ CU, but I've always been way more comfortable and interested in cat balance.
Speaking of ballet, I think my teacher at school is trying to break me. She was trying to extend the range of my back bend today and I was nervous as hell thinking about my recent back troubles (over-arched on a dive in July, sore since then when I arch under a load). The last bit of class today was way beyond my skill level, but she and I had a good laugh about it. My pirouettes need work form-wise, but I was able to get doubles (not clean, but not horrible) today!
Walking around campus today I had some good ideas for things I'd like to put into a video if I ever make a "sampler." I'll have to talk someone into filming it for me.
