I might wanna note that my hair, which was in a neat, high, nicely kept ponytail before class, is now this scraggly mess at the nape of my neck.............
For today, i wore the same glitter crush velvet leo from last week but this time with full length leggings that were... a LITTLE bit too butt-hugging... >_<;
Today's class was a bit different than usual, but before i get into that...
I was running around before class today, freaking out, all "WHAT DO I WEAR???" because i do dislike wearing the same leotards at times, since it's interesting to wear new ones, and i had only three more that's useable - a pink and purple swirl one that's a bit too cool for the winter, a dark blue one with light blue star highlights, and a black one that i can't find. And someone, who overheard me, said, "well... clothes. you should wear clothes."
Touché, darlin'. ^_^
Today we didn't warm up on floor as usual, since the boys were using it, and we didn't want to disrupt them, since i'm talking tumbling lines with like, doubles, triples, and i even saw a front layout to double front... so, WOW. *envy!!*
We went to the tumble trak to warm up instead, so we did all those jumps... i don't feel compelled to list them all since they're always the same, ANYWAY.
although at one point, my foot got caught on the end, so i tripped, then i tripped again, and then i faceplanted, so YEAH.
After warm ups, we went to floor to start testing, because it's a testing week, i suppose.
And asking us to do tuck jumps on the floor after we just finished doing it on the Tumble Trak? WEEELL i guess i could say it went less than pretty.
We went through all the basic level 1 - 8 / 9 skills. The only one i am missing is my back extention roll (backwards roll to handstand) but i'm sure i'll get that with time... as all things come with time.
I had a lot of fun with headstands today, actually! those are actually veeeeery awesome!!
We did lines that were basically testing, and then we got to stretch, and while stretching we would be tested a tiny bit more. we had to do a carthweel, to a handstand, and then roll out, and also handstand to bridge, and also headstand straddle press roll out, and splits, and stuff like that.
once that was finished we went back to floor, mostly to do things like handstands, rolls, cartwheels, round offs, power hurdle roundoffs with rebounds, et al.
Eventually we went to beam...
And there was this one where we had to lie on the beam, so i did. the Coach asked me to shift back a little, and whilst doing that, i lost my balance and basically tumbled onto the floor in a tangle of limbs. It was NOT pretty.
I could easily say that my favourites are floor and bars, beam and vault are my least favourites, and now you see why.
We also had to do mounts and dismounts, bunny hops on beam, long jumps, tuck jumps, pivot turns, and all that jazz. Seems easy at glance, but you try doing those gracefully on a 4inch piece of wood, and you tell me what you think.
We also worked on the low beam, so handstands, roundoffs, and then to the high beam to do a roundoff off of. (off off of? YEEAAAHHHH)
and needless to say, it was a high beam... and even in competition you are supposed to land on a crash mat... we don't get crash mats....
So it's like, yeah, my shins kinda felt jarred afterwards, and my ankles were a bit sore...
Eventually, we just went to play Bum Drop Wars again, and then off we went to go home, ne!
This time it wasn't as structured or as intensive as usual, but it's a nice change of pace, to be testing instead of just working hard, hard, hard!!
For awhile i honestly thought i could not go to next week's class due to a conflict, but then i realized i COULD, so i was ecstatic! it was like every cell in my body was alive and buzzing as though i had drank a pint of mead. :D
It was... a moment of pure glory ^^
Anyway, that's about it for this time :)
Till next time, then! :D
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