Sunday

Practicing outside with crew hopefully!  Such a nice day!

Me and Devon getting good by ourselves again.  I thought I was tired of practicing with Devon, but the outdoor spot is soooo refreshing.  We both were forced into moves by the concrete but the only thing it really stopped us from doing was head power.  The real reason you practice on concrete is so you don't crash.  I never thought about it like that before, but if you practice in an environment that discourages crashing you will crash less.  I crashed once today. :)  Sloppy technique means skinned knees and bruises.

I saw something in Devon's footwork and based a style around it.  I'll call it lazy leg style.  You keep your legs as close as possible to the ground at all times (mostly talking about techs and footwork in back).  Whenever you want to hit a beat your step completion always needs to arrive to that point in the music.  No sharp movements.  To exaggerate the movement more, make sure each step covers more ground than you do normally.

People stopped by and moved on, I love that going on in the background!  The space is like 16 x 16 brick squares with cement running along the sides and benches on the side.  The benches are like perfect viewing distance for the space.  I want this spot to be the Sunday practice spot.

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.

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.