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.

Saturday

I don't want to go to practice.

Had a really good time today!  Stealth and Devon were hitting moves and we were cyphering for a bit.  Stealth's tombstones are coming along.  My flares were on today (wearing sweats) and I almost hit halo > stab jump through > rollback.  Lots of power but no airflares.  Next time.

Friday

Yay for the UC!  Back to airflares and shoulder halos. :(   I'm going to tryout some aerials and see if I can't put a twist on it and land (slight pose) into no handed footwork.  Gah, need to try to get gainer thread :(  So much work, I got lazy in a few days.

I have not been sticking to my game plans!  But I did get alot of basic power in and fun things.

Thursday

Last practice at Morewood this week.

Just having a good time and trying to ease back into practice.  My halos were terrible, but style and 2000s were on.  Extrav's building-mate came to practice with Mad Dog.  I think it's time to get back to the work of it (increasing staminia and trick power vocabulary).  It was nice to chill and mess around for a couple days after taking that four days off.  I didn't mean to take that long off, so I'm rested but a bit out of the loop.  Good practice though.

Wednesday

Practice whut?

Pretty cool, I crashed alot and was tired from no sleep (which apparently means blog it and get trill on Jameson in the process).  Stealth was looking good and the overall vibe was good.  Practice today was fun, but not productive at all for me.  Did feel like crew with the GDG that were there. :)

Tuesday

Go have fun and go hard.

Fail not on my part.  Daiji didn't set up the CMU practice and Edgar Um was spinning the "let's have a drink" reggae mix at Ava.  So this time, it's not me being lazy.

Thursday

This is going to be a righteous day in general.  Going to this new Loft party, which is exactly what I've wanted in this city.  So for practice today I see how I feel.  If I can fly then I'll try the plan for last time.  If I can't then I'll try to do a chill practice focusing on varied step and inversion and work on introducing freezes (roll backs, from shoulder bump, footwork).

Or I can over sleep and not make an attempt to go to practice.  Not so righteous today.  Yeah, I feel like shit today.

Wednesday

Pretty much the same focus as yesterday.  I might shorten the warm up a bit since I danced so much last night and start into the all the flips I have.  The key being present during the air time in the flips I have so it might be easier to be present doing the thread.  Then I'll take a rest and run some gainer thread attempts.

Wow, none of this happened.  I was struggling to get out of bed and go to practice at all.  Definitely been working hard so I guess I underestimated my fatigue.  I was able to run some short power and decent footwork.  Even did some flips, but my legs are pretty tired so I wasn't getting the kind of air I needed.  Highlights: corkscrew > coin drop >  headspin drill x5, swipe > halo > so instead of a freeze my body hung halfway and my elbow was buckling in and out and then I fell.  It felt weird, but no ill effects.  Dunno what's in store for tomorrow.

Tuesday

The UC for a week!  So much to do!  I think I'm going to split this time (hour for new moves, hour to train aerobically)

1.  thread gainer (first half)
2.  shoulder halo
3.  airflares
4.  keep moving (second half)

Not too much thread gainer action even though it's the only original move out of the three.  Shoulder halo I'm not getting enough height on to keep in halo position.  I think I need to extend my legs more and trust in my hips instead of closing my legs to get around.  Airflare is getting better, I still look down when I land the airflare which is pushing my hips and feet to the ground.  Wow the aerobic part was pretty much impossible.  I did however go straight for 20 minutes and hit more than half of my sets clean and good tops in the rest periods.  I was at that point where it's like, "You can either keep going or keep what's in your stomach."  A little light-headed also so that pretty much did it for me.  So I just got some sets in with full recovery afterwards.

Then Stealth was talkin about this funk night with Selecta at Ava.  Selecta played a lot of burners but I would've arranged them differently.  He's the man for having half of the good songs I heard.  Good stuff along the jazz funk lines too.  So we went after a quick change and/or food and had a really good time.  I was pretty doneski after practice and recovered a bit when I came home to change.  Really need to do laundry.  Everyone was looking pretty good, but I could tell Teena and Stealth were tired from practice, as was I.  Some cool kenjutsu, doing some footwork to "I'm Coming" J Brown and get in some cock blasts on the four reoccurring horn blows near the end to end my set.  Need more of that.

Sunday

We pulled together a practice at Stealth's crib.

Was a pretty good practice Teena and Dave were there.  Stealth was hitting some good drills and close to the one handed stop and head freeze.  Today I didn't really have a focus.  I started out kenjutsu, then switched to trying to come up with new movement.  The thing is that at Stealth's crib I can only do balanced moves stepping lightly or else it'll skip the record.  Which doesn't seem to be a big problem, but still bboy no-no #15.  I felt a bit tired but strong, definitely did not slow my pace down.  Did crash a couple times just being tired, but that's when you know you're putting enough effort in.  *note* I noticed that when I got tired I kept repeating this slow down step in the front of my footwork.  That's actually counter productive, the energy it takes to stop myself is definitely greater than what I save in a quick Russian step.  It would be better for me just to continue to a stopping point and raise up.  I also need to do a practice where I can't stop moving, so I can train myself to get as close as I can to full recovery while delivering a quality step.