As I'd like to be better at the techniques, I practiced Saturday, Monday and Tuesday so I wouldn't look too shabby today. I think this pays off, but I should probably be practicing Saturday and Sunday regularly. Somehow the weekends get away from me.
I turned 55 this Monday and as I mentioned, progress is pleasing at this point in my life. As part of this progress I set up a deal with my self to do 55 push ups a day for 55 days. I'd done something like this in my late 30s with 100 push ups for 100. That was a tough start, but this seems tougher. I'm only a few days at this point, but my chest is telling me I've got some growth to go.
In class, I somehow thought I was going to rip right through the basics, but we ended up working on them for 45 minutes. As usual the kicks present an issue for me, but as we progress Keith has been able to diagnose a lot of the reasons why one side is better than the other and then help me fix that pretty quickly. That is super fun.
A case in point was my spinning back kick. One side is good and other, not so much. Meaning I'm kicking low and losing my balance after the fact.
The corrections:
- moving my non-kicking foot into proper location
- bending my weight supporting knee significantly and keeping it that way
- depending on the kick; I need to twist up tight to spot correctly
- keep the torso pointing downward, ahead of the spotting
- and so on
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