A video! (finally)

So yesterday during open studio, I brought my video camera and my tripod and filmed myself doing a bunch of tricks I've been working on lately, and then put it all together into one video and uploaded it to Youtube!  Enjoy!



Just as a sidenote: things have been going a lot better this week already.

Comme ci, comme ça

For this week, I think that's probably the best descriptor of what's been going on.  I mean, it hasn't been a terrible week, but it also hasn't been incredibly spectacular either.  My body has been getting a couple weird semi-injury pains at various places around my body this week, and it makes me a bit resistant to push myself so far.  Back on Thursday of last week (week 6, October 15), I somehow moved my right leg  in a funny way during ballet and some tendoney thing started feeling a little wonky.  I don't remember really how it happened.  I wasn't doing something particularly weird.  It could have been from just walking or something.  I'm not really too sure.  It went away the day after, so I didn't think much of it, but on Tuesday of this week, we were doing some full speed double stardrops (i.e. - roll sideways down the fabric two full rotations) and the landing jerked my right leg outwards in an awkward way and that same part of my leg started to hurt a bit again.  Again, it didn't feel too serious, but it was just an odd pain I hadn't really felt before so I decided not to mess with it too much.  The really odd thing about it though was that when I would do a right leg sidestretch, I wouldn't feel anything from it, but when I'd stretch my left leg to the side, it'd start hurting a bit.  Muscles are weird.  That's all I've really got to say about that.  :P  On Wednesday, I went to the Outer Limits only instead of going to Open Studio or both just so I wouldn't strain that part of my leg.  By now my leg is definitely not giving me any more pain, but if it comes up again, I'll talk to a coach about it.

Oh yeah, I have a blog.

YES!  All of the rumors are true!  I am still alive!  I know it's been a very long time since I've last written a blog post (way longer than I had first expected), but last week I found myself inspired to keep all of you up to date on what has been going on, but then, all of a sudden, when I clicked "post," blogger completely digested my blog post and left nothing but the title (which is weird since I made the title for it at the very end...at first I thought maybe it wasn't saving properly, but that it deleted what I put in first makes me suspicious that blogger somehow has an evil plot against me...*shrugs*).  Anyway, here I am now, and happily typing this up beforehand in notepad before letting blogger touch it. ^_^

Anyway, the original reason why I hadn't been posting so much is because overall things have begun to settle down and I have found myself going through a relatively consistent routine.  It's at this point that the week numbers are beginning to surprise me (yesterday started week seven...I KNOW?!).  Anyway, we've been continuing steadily with our Tuesday and Thursday rotations.  As you might remember from a previous blog post of mine, we have a total of four rotations per week, and do an hour for each of them, making two rotations for Tuesday morning, and two rotations for Thursday morning.  Before that, we stretch and warm up for 45 minutes, and afterwards we condition for 15 minutes.  Below is the breakdown of the stations that my group has been having (the groups are fine tuned every week):