Summerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

A week into summer holiday and I feel great. Sore, but great. Ross made a training regime that takes us through the summer and I'm loving it. I'm feeling much stronger psychologically and a bit more controlled physically. The summer has this nice effect on everyone so I get a lot more freedom and everything feels like it's my own will. Cambridge has been arranged for 9TH August which should be amazing.



This is a video of recent trainings in Ipswich. Not terribly good but we hope to have at least another 2 videos by the end of the holidays to show a lot of progression in movement.

Conditioning progress

Only just realised how important being strong is - which is stupid becasue I've had 6 months to realise and do it.
I'm focusing much more on my whole body now to get my whole body up to a certain level of fitness and strength, focusing mainly on the abs and the shoulders for planches.
I just started this thing which ross has been doing for his abs and it seems to be working fast as it was followed by the longest tuck planche I've ever held. The difference now is I can repeat it instead of being so nackered that I can harldy move. Got one of them on video:

I guess this is where it all starts

Pain brings doubt. Doubt either makes something stronger, or breaks it. Pain brought doubt.

I was on the phone to my unlce and he said something that's inspired me: "one needs to push ones' limits, or one will will not progress"; he said it in the sarcastic way he usually speaks when telling me things. But the words also carried the solution to my doubt.

Backflip progress

Well it took a while to jump straight up instead of backwards, but this my best attempt at one where I leant slightly back but was pleased with the tuck and the general movement:

Backflips

Was working up for quite a while last night on backflips. Eventually, this is what they looked like:




I know I jump way too far back before I tuck and that my tuck is not tight in any way. But, I have to say, focusing on the steps of the flip really helps your mind in getting over the fear.

Recent trainings

This handstand thing is very hard for me. I am getting closer to pushing right up with straight legs. I was getting all excited the other day as I thought I could push right up, but only with the use of a kick up from bent legs. I'll get there soon.




After recording some handstands today I really was shocked to see that my arch had almost completely gone. That's good news becasue it means my upper body strength training is working.

(Again, due to blogger screwing up, there is no video)

Let me never forget

I think everyone finds flips and spins hard to conquer, including me. But I have been inspired by the words of ermmm someone to overcome my fear in any type of flip: instead of focusing on the whole movement and the movement as a FRONT FLIP etc. I need to focus on the individual steps that I know will get me round if executed perfectly. By focusing on these steps over and over it is much easier to look at what you're about to do and do it. Well.

I'm just writing down this mind technique so that if I ever forget it, hopefully I'll look at this post and remember how it all works. And it does work because I just used it to flip off le billiard table!!!