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There is a lot of new concepts, terminology, new drills and motor patterns to get familiar with.
I am all about being comprehensive in this course: whether we keep working together in the future or not, I want to make sure that you get as much as possible from it and, yes, we have a lot of theory to go through, so that your practice can become more mindful.
This can be a bit overwhelming though.
If that’s you,
- After the first four weeks, things are going to settle down a bit. You will re-read things that you have seen before, and the repetition will make things clearer and clearer. Be patient, this is the intense bit where the Rocket accelerates before finding its cruising pace 🙂
- Prioritise if need be. Module 3 about alignment is a good example: there is a LOT to it: the Zones, the 1st stack, the 2nd stack, the Counterweight, Open and Closed Shoulders.
This week’s goals:
We have anchored a baseline workout together, articulated around two main drills:
- holding ourselves better and better C2W,
- improving our kick-up, whether it be landing softer against it (improvers), floating before we land against it (improvers - intermediates) or ensuring that we land in a position that mimics our freestanding attempts (intermediates)
We also have taken apart your handstands, hopefully giving you a lot of food for thought for the upcoming weeks, as well as a bit of clarity when it comes to navigating our training together, and your own practice.
At the end of this week, and using the the mobility assessment, you should know if your shoulders are open or closed.
Note:
just because they are open does not mean that they should always be open, or that we can always open them when we want.
We will see that in Module 4.