Thursday, September 13, 2007

Rail Precisions + Conditioning

I have been out training in the park quite a bit this week. On Monday and Tuesday I did quite a bit of conditioning, my left thigh is nearly equal in size to my right thigh now, all those pistols have nearly paid off, and all the upper body stuff I have been doing has helped, I can do 7 pullups in a row now rather than 3. Pretty poor still I know. Im working on getting simultaneous muscleups, so pullups, pushups and various dips is what I have been doing.

Today I didn't feel like doing conditioning so I did movements instead. I've got a training partner now, my next door neighbor, who is a few years younger than me, but is pretty eager to learn things, so I have been teaching him a few things. Today I noticed quite a bit of progression. I have been getting gradually more confident with rail precisions, on these wooden beams. Today I did barefooted ones, which were nice, and felt really good. All my training recently has been barefooted, except for a few rail precisions I need to get more confident with. There are some precisions I have been looking at for a while now, onto these thin metal railings from a wooden plank. The plank is at an angle, so the further you move to the top, the further away it is from the railing, and the more level it becomes with the railing. The precision at the bottom is a small distance but upwards, so I got that first,and did it a few more times. Then I moved up the plank, further away and more level with the railing. I did the precision from the middle a few times, until I was happy with it. Then I did it from the top of the plank. I knew this part of the railing was slightly slippier than the rest for some reason, but after a few tests with my foot I knew I would be able to stick it well. The first time, I landed it and stuck it nicely, so I was really pleased. The second time however, after I had landed, my left foot slipped behind off the railing. Luckily I managed to control my fall pretty well, by moving my left foot over the railing, so I wouldn't scrape my shin, and then rolled out of it to stop myself cracking my face, and I then landed on the dirt on the other side on my back. All I got was a tiny cut on the base of my thumb from the wire fencing underneath the railing, and the little scab on my elbow came off and bled a bit. I got up, being pretty pleased with myself, as I had acted instinctively to stop the fall from hurting me. The fact that it felt like I knew what I was doing as well, I could have so easily panicked and hurt myself.

So thats my training from the past few days, can't wait to go train there again tomorrow. I'm so lucky it is only a fence-hop away.

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