When: Monday, December 09, 2024 6:30pm until 8:00pm
Where: Morden home living room
Summary
Yesterday I trained for about 1.5 hours. Up until last couple training sessions, I felt so much resistance, so much procrastination. And every time I get myself to to practice — not force — I feel emotionally better, lifted with higher spirits, and I can see the work paying off. I feel it. I see it.
What did I do
- Conditioning
- Jump roping (3 minutes)
- 2 rounds of single leg squats, lunge jumps (my enemy), squats, holding dance positions
- 1 round of 9 exercises with ankle weights
- Compass on time
- Compass double time
- Compass with a swing
- Jump from side to side
- Rapid fire forward and backwards
- Side to side arm stretches (used to make me nauseous but not anymore)
- 6 rounds of pas de bourrée rhythm training with ankle weights
- On time, double time, “standard”, 1/16th
- 6 rounds of cross step rhythm training without ankle weights
- On time, double time, “standard”, 1/16th
- Musicality exercise – Used Garage band (no. 16)
- Freestyle round – started cramping so I stopped after about 3 minute round
What was the main focus?
- Musicality and transitions
- Updated dance training program – added moves such as roger rabbit, jack in the box, side walk, drunk walk, compass, swirl, heel toe, dodger
- Drilling rhythmic pattern (Mavinga)
- Main intention continues to be holding the position just a fraction of a second longer, particularly on rhythm 3 before transitioning to 1/16th notes
Wins
- Throughout freestyle round, I incorporated (recency bias) the kick, bend, into roger rabbit transition (from Miriam)
- Setup with the repetition – this is something that I came up for myself; well, I arrived at this move on my own and do not doubt that others in the world have come up with the same move
- Threw in the shuffle transition I picked up from Miriam from class last Saturday – kick out right, step left leg back behind right, finish the shuffle kick out. I find this transition really beautiful and I’m adding my own flavor, my own sauce to it
Areas of Improvements
- Right arm stiff during swirl (and more generally, in all movements)
- Adding textures
- Incorporating pauses and quarter time with intention
- I’m thinking of doing something like Bas Ruten, creating .mp3 files of me just telling myself the exercises with music baked into it