Giralang and Belco training 10-01-09

Trained yesterday with Paddy, and a few others.

Started off at Giralang Primary School.
As you may know, I'm nursing some overuse injuries, and have been trying to heal them up. These include shinsplints, and a similar condition in my right forearm, which had become aggravated over the past week by returning to work, and doing lots of mouse based computer stuff.

My strategy was to spend twice as long on my warmup, and really get the blood flowing before I got into the training.
I did dynamic stretching on all of my joints, rotating both directions, a bunch of forward and backward quadrupedal work, divebomber pushups, rolls on both sides, and squats.

Then I started training. It worked. I had basically no pain, and was training for over 3 hours. My right arm still feels awesome today.

We met up with Juzza at Giralang, and trained some basic vaults first up. Juzza then showed us a huge arm jump that he's been eyeing off... out of my range though, and the wall is painted, so the landing will be slippery. Add it to the list...

We then walked around the school and I did a few precisions, before coming to a nearly level cat to precision I've been trying to get. After about 15 minutes, both Juzza and I surpassed the obstacle, which was a good start to the day.

Paddy and I left Giralang heading for Belco, and Juzza went home.

We met up with Max and Isaac at the Library. Trained the usual stuff, and I looked at doing the cat to arm off the overpass. I first tried dropping to the arm jump from the top of the railing that I'd be cat-passing, but I realised that I'd need more work on my level arm jumps before I could do it confidentally. Add it to the list.

We went down around the back of the Library, trained a few precisions on the way, then stayed at the ramp for a while. I worked out a nice underbar sequence, concentrating on speed and flow. I did it alright, but not totally happy. A few more precision, and the day was over.

I think I have progressed more in the past few jams than I did in the months before. I have consistently overcome mind-blocks on certain obstacles and movements, and have become better at finding things to push my limits. I seem to be becoming more confident in my own abilities, which is a good thing. I'll just have to watch out for overconfidence.

I did a bunch of filming at this jam... After reviewing the footage, there's a few things in my technique I want to clean up, like getting both elbows over at the same time in my climbup.

I'll put out a vid at some stage.

J