Flying, Part II

This has been the longest week of the year, thanks to the congressional process.  I have some desire to kick the very next member who demands a roll call vote over something he/she knows perfectly well will be decided on party lines, just because it will cause a delay.  Because that's the reason that I started listening to a discussion of a bill at 10am on Tuesday morning and left the building at 2:30am on Wednesday.  Silliness.

Then I spent Thursday and Friday at a conference downtown, which was actually pretty cool, 600 female Sailors, Marines and Coasties in one room to talk to each other.  It was surreal in one way, as I am apparently unique enough that a PhD Candidate wants to interview me for a separate section in her dissertation.  I guess if you look, you'll find only one or two minority female SWOs who've had command.  (My thought was that you kind of had to dig deep to find that, but I guess that's what dissertations are for.)  I got some good advice and hopefully gave some good advice, and then I went across the street and took my second trapeze class. 

My muscles were a bit sore, and my hamstrings in particular reminded me of their presence when I went up for my warm-up swing, which consisted of a knee hang and a backflip dismount.

Then they taught me a new trick.  Or at least they tried to.  I didn't do so well with that one.  The idea is to take the leg movement swinging up to go into a kneehang and instead putting both feet onto the bar.

The idea being to then strighten your legs parallel to the ground.

This is where I failed.  You can see me falling out of the position here, which was recoverable...but then I fell all the way out and tangled up in the safety line, which was also recoverable, but not easily.

I'm going to keep working on this one next week because even making a fool of myself, I had a blast.  I did manage to catch two more knee hangs at the end of the evening, so I at least ended successfully. 

Comments

[jane]

I am VERY impressed and a little bit jealous!

[Sylvia]

You know the hamstring stretch where you stand against a wall or smooth door, feet out from the wall just a bit, and slowly slide down, then back up again? Flexing the quads forces the hamstrings to relax.

Good luck with the red tape/gov't!

[Shanti's Mommy]

Your photographer did a much better job this week. You really look cool up there and I don't see you failing ... you only fail if you don't try. And you are trying! How much fun is that?