M2M Day 109: He’s only holding onto my shirt
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For February, my goal is to land a backflip.
Today, I went to my fifth backflip lesson, and I’m super happy with my progress. As I promised (to myself) yesterday, I attempted a backflip on the ground, without the harness.
But, before I did that, I strapped into the harness to warm up and gain some confidence.
Once I was comfortable in the harness, I took the harness off and Elijah came over to spot me. Essentially, Elijah just held my shirt, which wouldn’t really help if I panicked in the air, but gave me enough mental support so I wouldn’t panic.
Towards the end of this sequence of “almost backflips”, I started to get mentally tired: I wasn’t fully committing. In fact, even from the beginning, I wasn’t completely committing (you’ll noticed that all these backflips are pretty low to the ground).
Thus, we moved over to the tumble track, which is a not-so-bouncy trampoline, to practice my form (particularly, jumping/setting high).
After the first dozen, Elijah pulled his hand away and I was completely on my own.
Finally, after a number of attempts on the tumble track, I returned to the floor and continued flipping. Again, I wasn’t fully committing, but at least I was focusing on jumping higher.
I conquered a lot of fear today, and am almost certain that I will land an unassisted backflip on the floor during my next session.
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