Showing all entries dated: Saturday, 22 August 2015
3 clubs, 4 clubs, 5 clubs, 5 balls, 7 balls, 9 balls, 11 balls, 70 minutes
Felt tired from being ill, but tried to make the most of it.
Total practice time: 70 minutes
Location: garden
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Mostly full session, 75 minutes
I HAVE MY NORMAL SPACE BACK!!! AND IT'S EVEN BETTER! Apparently a recent conference taking place there (probably the genome one) was sufficiently swanky to merit the replacement of all the burnt-out lights. The place is stunning now. Love.
Biggest thing today was hitting 16 catches (one more round than before, which was 12 catches) of #HLAIB. That's huge for me! It's feeling more runable than ever. Wooooooo!
I don't really care about the rest of the pracitse, which was solid. 16 catches! Psyched.
Total practice time: 75 minutes
Location: Roz
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5 balls, 40 minutes
Warmed up, then I practiced 5 balls. I was focusing on reaching up a little bit for each catch, and allowing my arms to bring the ball down. (cushioning each catch) And...i got a decent video of the 5b cascade, but you can't see the top of the pattern, or how far my arms are goin down, but it's good enough :P. I'll try and post it tomorrow! I've come a long ways, i'm seeing some really good improvement. In the video, on my first attempt, I juggled the pattern for 30 seconds! stay tuned. :P :P :P
By the way, i could really use some feed back! Keep in mind that most of the time, i was trying to keep the pattern running longer than i'm comfortable with, so judge fairly!
4 balls, 20 minutes
Practiced the 55550 and the 552 for real this time. As i was practicing, i was actively monitoring my form. I put some effort into throwing side ways, from specific spots, and i was mostly trying to keep my elbows comfortably to the side, not popping out (hard!) and i was trying to throw straight up, without my arms angling even the slightest bit towards me (even more hard!) the last two i listed are probably the biggest things i could improve on. Good session!
Total practice time: 60 minutes
Location: Home
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3-5 clubs, balance, 60 minutes
Mainly club back crosses.
3 club singles, doubles and triples and moving between them
4 club scissors, 534 and 55550
5 club back crosses throwing 1 to from pattern both hands, bc tennis, running rh bc - all in doubles
Total practice time: 60 minutes
Location: Cambridge uni sports centre
5 ball tricks, 5 balls, 9 balls flashing, 3 heavy balls, 7 balls, 5 heavy balls, #StagesOfLearning, 270 minutes
3b freestyle, misc - 35 min. 5 heavy balls, 200 gr casc - 20 min. 207 throws, then >=327 th ( ! first time that much with heavy balls ). Few 7- & 9-high again. 9b flashing - 60 min. Twice 8 gathers; no 9 c in reach. New old leatherballs tend to slip, so much depends on the good but releasable grip of every single ball. 7b casc - 30 min. A pulling - orange alert - ache in the shoulder after 15-20 min. Tried with elbows tight to body and do some very low very fast patterns from wrists mainly, to see if it vanishes, but didn't and went bad also, so wanted to risk nothing and did .. 5b tricks - 15 min. .. instead. 5b-645. [see below]
5b tricks - 50 min. 5b-645. Coming from 4b-534 and having tried alike with clubs lately ( 34530 ), 645 seemed an interesting challenge to see if & how long it would take. I had tried it before but instantly rejected it for too many self-throws and in favor of (4b-23456, then) 5b-34567; but I can't and don't want to avoid self-throws forever and 456 is the shorter sequence and I can try it without preliminaries: #StagesOfLearning: One side was easy, [42][522]6 to collect, then same with other hand. --> After a while, I managed the fourth throw. Tried simply go on throwing, but erroneously did 4567 and also got confused after fourth throw --> so got back to doing `sides´ to collect consecutively faster, which led to the fourth throw just happening by itself. --> Could then concentrate on doing fifth and sixth throws (and NOT doing any 7-s). --> Got 5 catches, then twice 6 c (but I couldn't wholly follow - the two last throws and the catching were faster than I could think, but I don't think I did 4564527). Pleased with two `sides´ caught and having opened the door to this siteswap with 5b. Many drops + pickup, so now wanted something more fluent: .. 5b - 60 min. Anything; mainly playing on cascade; but a lot reachovers, couldn't get them back to casc, but went on until I got two single RO per run; some °25[53]°; some highest ( ~d ((shoulder `allowed´ that, hope, it recovers until tomorrow)) ).
Total practice time: 270 minutes
Location: shady rivershore-meadow
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