In an ideal world, we kick-up perfectly.
We enter a very good alignment and can start already the fine-tuned work at the finger level.
At last, you are ba;ancing.
But we don’t live in an ideal world.
And the pretty, clean instagram posts you keep bookmarking are having your work on unrealistically simple circumstances.
What happens when if we don't kick-up optimally, or when we "lose it"?
What to say of this of chaotic corrections that can last for endless seconds?
I like to refer to these as "turbulences".
And factor them in in the training of my students.
As you fight through the turbulences, trying to maintain balance, instread of balancing, we’ll say you are "stabilising".
This leads to the following observation:
Wall drills in which we control all the variables before taking off allow us to work on balancing… but not so much on stabilising.
They mimic what a kick-up devoid of turbulence and misalignments would lead to.
Not easy, and certainly your priority on your way to 5 - 10 seconds consistently freestanding.
In other words, by the time taking off the wall C2W and B2W for 10 seconds becomes relatively easy, let's make sure we don't over-indulge in balance at the expense of our stabilisation skills.