Friday

CMU practice.  I'm tired from last night.

Me, Devon, Daiji and Kyle.  Devon came later so before he arrived we were drilling power moves.  I got a chance to show both of them a few things so that was pretty cool.  I think Daiji is starting to get it.  There's less and less hesitation to ask advice of anyone. :)  I had a breakthrough personally in headspins (since I couldn't do anything else).  My hand positioning for taps was waaay too wide.  I found when bring my hands together (condensing mass, like all balance related power duh) that it was easier to do multiple taps.  Kyle started doing some slow headspins, his balance is quite good.  He'll have those soon.  Devon and I finished a routine and fleshed out another.  Glad that we really started on this.  It gives me hope that we'll be ready for the gallery crawl!

Danny Krivit

Should be a paaaartae!

Nah, Pittsburgh is still wack. The people that mattered were there (GDG and a fly breezie).  So much good music, what do you do?  Dance as much as possible in as many different styles as possible (and appropriate).  Much of what the djs were playing transcends multiple styles so that wasn't too hard.  Danced for a good 4 hours.  That's the best extended performance I've had.  I took breaks when burned out then kept at it.  I'm glad that I'm able to cypher a bit with Matt and have him teach me things.  I think fundamentally that encapsulates the relationship between crew members.  I think crew should be a collective intellectual enterprise.  As such all members are students and teachers beholden to one another.  Right now I sense a "duh" moment coming on, but that's not how people act.  People crave stratification and all too often the reason to be in a group becomes finding themselves through comparison.

Wednesday

Gymsport with Stealth.

I'm behind on writing this shizz down.  Not too much happened this practice.  I tried airflares until my body wouldn't take commands anymore.  One thing I learned from that though was the positioning of my throw hand needs to be more on point.  I also need to stop getting lost during the throw and keep my angle.  I feel like if I can master those two elements I will be able to land so I can do another attempt.  The Gymsport people like us.

Tuesday

There's 45 minutes to practice and no one brought music.  What do you do?

I decided to drill the power combos giving me the most trouble: airflare, mill > flare, mill > 90, flare > 90, flare > halo, headspin > 90.  It was fun, Xtrav sure talks alot.  I think I'm going to try to practice 5 hours a day and try to beef up this blog.  I feel like I need repetitious practice of certain moves in order to achieve the muscle memory I need to get to the next level.  Also with 5 hours a day I can get in the aerobic practice I need.  The only drawback is that I'm spread thinner, but I'm not making dramatic enough progress to get to where I need to be.  Injuries may also occur, I'm doing moves that require all my attention so being fatigued means being less careful.  I think I can account for that though... well let's see what will happen.