Blowing Away Expectations

I am at breakthough point where each day I train I am hitting key major breakthroughs. It started about a week ago when I moved from doing kickovers in the morning  as part of my warm up to going straight into Slinkies to warm up. Goal was initially to do three single slinkies to warm up. I blew past that quick enough and today I did a triple slinky, followed by a sexto slinky followed by a nanoslinky. For a total of 18 slinkies as part of my warmup. I can see it will not be long before I do a Decaslinky to warm up and then move onto other techniques. It is coming….

After that I did 3 Combos (FLKO, Slinky, BWO, FLSU, Stick). The third was perfect, the first two had minor steps. Still massive progress over the last month. So much harder to do such a combination versus the same technique multiple times. I am going to start working on Front Walkovers and will be able to include this into the Combo as well and then will include Back Handspring Stepout as well as soon as I am confident to do that. It is coming…….

I then worked on Upslinkies and got 5/5 on the Level 2 but could not get the Level 3 today. I am working on it and am close. If I was not going away I would have 5/5 within a week. My back is in incredible shape so this will be coming and then I am going for Level 4 as well and that will open up the upper back even more. It is coming……

My body is very unbalanced with my left leg being about 10 times as strong in kickovers than the other. Rather than working down panel mats I decided to focus on doing the leg lifts from the floor and eventually the panel will start settling into the body and then it will just kickover. Once I get there I will keep working on it until I can slot it into the combo and alternate the combo on each foot. It is coming……

As part of doing the leg lifts I decided yesterday to do a back bend into position. When I did this I though how would it be to do it with my eyes closed. Yesterday I did the back bend with my eyes closed. Today I did the whole technique including the Stand up with my eyes closed. A lot more in touch with the body when doing this. I am going to start doing a lot more techniques with my eyes closed to the point I can do the combo withe my eyes closed. It is coming…

Next I worked on Beam Slinkies followed by Back Walkover. A beam slinky is where you start on both feet and have hands in beam position and lean back with the hands on the ground and push through the shoulders and then kickover and land on the 4″ beam (simulated). Yesterday I added a back walkover it to get used to doing more combination techniques. Today I added the Back Walkover for all five. Did great. I used to be unstable or come off the side on the Beam Slinky. Not any more. Soon I will be doing this Back Walkover in Beam position as well so I can get used to doing the Back Walkover-Back Handspring so I can take it to the beam. It is coming……

I then went and worked on handstands. While I was doing it, I had Leigh come over and she asked me to show her how to do a handstand. She is one of the yoga instructors. I said of course. I gave her some key distinctions and spotted her on a handstand and she got to experience good form…Tight abs, Tight Back, Toes Pointed etc. She said I spent the first 50 of my life walking on my feet,I decided I want to learn  during  the next 50 to learn to walk on my hands. I said, “Me Too’, I explained my goal is to be able to walk around the gym on my hands for five minutes around a walking track. She is excited about doing more with me. 5 minutes on my hands. I did my longest walk today at 22 steps. It is coming…..

I am looking forward to getting more and more flexibility. Here are some of my current goals…….

Overall I am in excellent shape, the body is strong and getting more flexible by the day. The next 24 days in the UK should increase my flexibility and strength even more. So Excited… Go Heroes!!!

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