January 28th - WICKED Training Session!

Alright so things definitely started out right today with something that starts Every day out right...breakfast! Then class where I day dreamed about freerunning and then lunch! I had lunch with, Jerred and we spoke about many things; however, in reference to training, we planned on what we would work tonight. I was pleased to find out (partially from our Google Training Calendar - look a couple blogs back if you don't know that I'm talking about) that all four of us were going to be at practice!

At practice we pushed two longer mats up next to each other to make a big soft floor to trick on. Jerred nailed some corks and said, "Don't ask me how to do them because I don't know." ha. I know what he means...when you first learn a trick and you aren't sure exactly what you are doing that is making you land it so well. Unfortunately this often leads to losing said trick several times as you try to understand it better. I know this from learning corks in the gym last month. I landed three of them...no problem; however, I haven't landed one since! Calvin and I talked about this tonight...

...when you are learning a trick and you have a "bad day" all you want to do is keep trying the trick...the same goes with learning it and practicing it over and over until you get tired and your form starts to suck...you have to FORCE YOURSELF TO STOP! I can't begin to count how many times I have seen someone over work a trick instead of ending on a good one and properly waiting to work on it another day. One kid in particular, who I recently helped teach a backflip, really understands this and it makes him SO easy to work with. He is a very disciplined individual and has made GREAT strides in his training by learning to work a trick until you work out all of the "bad oddities" and then STOP once you get a good one or two. Seriously the HARDEST thing about training that I have learned the difficult way...Any comments on this? Anyone? Agree or Disagree?

Anyway, in my own training I worked Kick the Moon's and Back fulls tonight...two tricks I had let go due to a lack of proper understanding. After spending a lot of time working other areas I had epiphanies with both tricks and decided to try them...my Kick the Moon's were higher than ever! In a few more weeks I think I can have them down comfortably :) and as far as Back fulls go, I landed my first one WELL! It's a hard punch and an elbow...that is the key. I have been practicing them from a good height to allow more time to "work it out" and as I keep working on them and progressing I will do them lower and lower... I believe that once I get them down I will be doing them perhaps standing soon after :)

Long Blog, but a GREAT Training day!

stretching/reading/French/pullups CHECK!