Tuesday came, and I had visions of backfulls dancing in my head. I got to practice early, warmed up, and set up a stack of mats. Something that I realized, that I noted in a previous post, is the importance of REALLY elbowing/punching hard into the twist for a back full. I spent quite a bit of time in days prior (mostly bored in class) going over how the move should feel RIGHT before I leave the ground.
I played with the move a bit, first just throwing a normal backflip. Then, I moved on to lightly pulling my arms in to see how much twist I would get...ABSOLUTELY KEY that your flip part of the move never changes. With this, I could just pull harder and harder each time as I got more comfortable with the move. Eventually I could estimate how many degrees I would rotate as soon as I left the mat by FEELing how hard the twist was pulled initially. I eventually worked up to getting the twist all but the last 45 degrees of a full....
...I concentrated for a bit on the feeling of pulling into the twist, got up, and threw it again..."YES!" totally landed it, strait up and down...I ended up landing three of them after that and then I did that hard thing again...I quit them for the night.
Later on in practice, Nick and I worked on Butterfly Kick. This is a move he has really been working on lately. After some careful instruction, I tried a few and landed them! Once I get the synchronization of the move down pat I plan on moving up to Butterfly twist...The potential for generating energy at the beginning of this move is FANTASTIC!
Colleen and I worked some of her moves tonight. After recovering from a sprained ankle, she needed a bit of help getting her moves back to where she remembered them...(One thing that I always find funny is that you remember your moves better than they were so you end up holding yourself to a higher standard if you just let them go for a bit in between training sessions.) Her fronts were back (We need to pick a night to just work fronts and slowly work her down to sticking them from a lower and lower and lower height (beautiful way to slowly learn to throw a move more efficiently and with greater power) I would also like to work this technique with my back fulls until I get them to a nice low height...
Moves on the horizon...
-Been watching Chase's cartwheel front tutorial...beautiful stuff
-More KICKS! great moves to combo for continuing energy!
-Back hand springs...mine need more work...I have a plan, so we shall see how it goes
Well, wow, I'm just amazingly pumped for training in the upcoming week, so stay tuned as I plan to be writing more now that my schedule has freed up a bit.
Reading/Stretching/French <3
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