Welcome to Wednesday. The trash is out front, the newspaper is on the lawn. The sun is shining, there’s no breeze. It looks nice out.
It’s a fucking lie, because it’s chilly.
I took the initiative to dismantle the Teensycola terrarium yesterday. I cleaned it out and remade the substrate layer. There’s another fern in there, and some more pennywort. However, after the fungus took over the last ecosystem, I skipped the fumeria this time around. While it’s pretty and adds color, the fumeria doesn’t last long, and until I decide if I want to add some sort of “cleanup crew”, I’m not adding more of it. I checked this morning to make sure it wasn’t too “foggy” in the jar, and everything looks ok so far. We’ll see how long the situation lasts. No snails this time around, but there’s several tiny ants in there.
Honestly, I think that just makes it a more accurate native terrarium.
Post afternoon terrarium fun, I managed to fit in some spin time. That was ok. I wasn’t really feeling the flow, but I really wanted to
- practice a little
- be outside
- not be inside
I spent a lot of time working on two moves that have tripped me up since I started four years ago. The first move, wrist wraps, are really tripping me up. I’m almost to a point that I would call “consistent” going in one direction. On the other wrist hand, not so much. There’s a LOT more going on in the arms than it looks.
Momentum needs to be there, specifically with the poi wrapping from below. The move itself is done in wall plane (which I know means jack shit to y’all, and I’m sorry), so you need to have a decent grasp of plane control in general. If my arms aren’t straight out, then the poi won’t wrap properly. The biggest trick is getting all the parts together at one in that split second. It all starts with a “swoopy kick up” with the bottom poi, both keeping my arms lifted and pushing them forward slightly. However, the biggest trick is learning the precise moments to push the poi into the spin and pull them back out of it.
NOW LEARN IT GOING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
I just typed out two entire paragraphs about a trick that I don’t even show in its entirety in this video. I won’t even attempt to break down the crossers I was working on in the posted clip. Why? Because I don’t even know. At this point, crossers are more like failed self-flagellation.
