Started out Saturday morning training with Will and some nerds near the Dog and Duck Pub on 17th because waterloo park was closed for some event. Sucked. This other spot is OK but other than a couple of cat leaps there isn't really much I can do with my wrist in their current condition. My cat leaps feel like they have gotten better but my toes on my right foot still really really hurt from the botched cat leaps I was doing earlier this week.
So after we warmed up Ben and Will and I headed up to the top of the adjacent parking garage and found some really cool (Scary) passageways from the edge of the parking garage to the neighboring building. Its really hard to explain. I wish I would've taken a picture but I was'nt thinking about it at the time. But try to imagine this...in between these two parking garages there were some pipes, that ran at a diagonal, and they served as like a platform that we could lower down to and then jump down back into the garage a level lower. Anyways if you cant picture it, just picture a scary passage from one building to another. Ben did it first, then me, but Will thought the risk far outweighed the awsomeness. Will is a cautious cat. He said he'd do it next time. We shall see.
So after playing around in the parking garage for an hour or so we decided to take the M3 and head down to san marcos for Open Gym. I spent friday evening with Marcus and we were talking about what we were wanting to train at gym. I mentioned that the last time I was at open gym I really wanted to attempt a demon drop but when I got up on the bars I was just way to scared to ever let go of the bar. I asked him for some , "help" now, "help" from Marcus means he will berate you and call you names untill you man up and do what he says. Its not a very good way of teaching, but it does get results. : ) anyways, so after I stretch, Marcus and I wonder over to the bars todo some demon drops.
A demon drop is a silly manuever that is executed from a cat hang. You pull up with your arms and drive your butt as high as you can get it, release the bar, and use the momentum generated from your butt drive to continue rotation into a front flip. If it sounds terrifying, thats because it is. I'm not usually scared of much, because Im a manly man, but this had me about to pee my pants. I didnt even want to climb up onto the perch and when i did, I immediatly climbed right back down saying "ah, hell no". so after spending some time with Thomas and Levi explaining to me what exactly I was going to be doing and gave me a few drills to get myself comfortable with the motion and the execution of the inward flip. Levi was having me do "loser" flips, which are front flips but they travel backwards. It is similar to what we called a "cut-away" flip back when i was on the diving team, you jump backwards and duck your chest down and flip. So I went off and practiced the Loser flips for probably 45 min, and then Thomas had me do this butt driving drill. I'd stand about 6" away from the wall, with my arms up, jump, and lightly tap the wall as high as i could while looking down at my feet to make sure they stayed 6" from the wall. What this does is because you are looking down your hips will come out and up. This got me comfortable with the feeling of driving your hips and the loser flip got me comfortable with flipping inward. As a result,
*whew, I did it! I let go of the bar! This was scary! To this date this is the scariest thing I've ever done. In fact, after the second succesful attempt, my body was shaking from all the adrenaline and I had to stop training and stretch untill the end of gym. : )
Here I am being less of a Poon
I will continue to train the Demon Drop untill I am no longer scared!
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