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.

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.