Day Twenty Eight: What the What?

Tonight gave me some interesting insights and some intriguing thoughts to play with. I should probably write them down because it's all Derby stuff but I am so immersed in my martial play time, and I can barely remember all the amazing things I want to without adding more to the pile. 

Anyway. Other things happened too. Things I should have manipulated better, but soft social skills are a little beyond my mastery. Instead, I might do some work on an off-skates training program instead.

Fitness/Aikido: Body throws! Body throws. I am (was?) so bad at body throws. Okay, yes, I've only ever done them about three or four times before today, and Sensei helped a lot after I continued to fail to 'load', then Brie and I used our free time to throw each other relentlessly around. Did not help when she said something to irritate me, so I went to drop her and dumped her on my own foot. Owch. Then we worked on using Effortless "Balance" - using the principles of Effortless Power to remain balanced (as often when pushing or being pushed the body braces/tenses itself which requires effort) - this was challenging to say the least. Not that any of the workshop has been easy, it's all insanely hard, but damn. It's frustrating knowing how long mastery will take, when the benefits of mastery are so apparent and great, yet at least this is now known to me. Just as Peter says, "Now, do that a few thousand times and you'll start to get it..." 

Derby: Caught the tail end of advanced freshmeat training so I could talk to a couple of the higher ups. Spent most of the time doing handstands, quick feet drills and a couple of rollbacks waiting for the final drill to wrap up. Get amped pretty easily around people on skates, my body gets springy and excited by the prospect of skating. Sorry feet, not tonight...

Diet: Weetbix and banana for breakfast, biscuit, mammoth sandwich, a few pieces of dark chocolate to keep me less moody, and Burger Fuel for dinner. Considering the length of time I spend rolling, jumping, lunging and running around at the moment I know the quantity of food I'm consuming is much more important than the calibre (although the calibre wasn't been too bad) - woop. Body says it's okay with it all at the moment. It's a good thing my internal feedback kicked back in, otherwise this workshop would be impossible!

Sleep: Fell asleep after midnight last night which wasn't great, but woke up at around 6am anyway and struggled to keep resting until 7am when I got up. I'm having sleepy patches between 7 - 9pm which I can't quite shake, and are really annoying, but again, feedback from my body says it's fine. Will try and get seven hours tonight but... we'll see how that goes.