#57Another academy class.....
By Agota | posted on 29 May 2009 | 3 comments
I felt sore, especially my upper body was in pain after the team training on Wednesday night at Abbey Road. But it didn`t stop me to attend the Thursday class at Moberly Sport Centre, and I`m glad it didn`t.
The sports hall started to fill up and more and more women walked into the room. I was positively surprised to see so many traceuses, some regulars but also many new faces. After the usually intense and challenging warm-up, especially today :-), we separated into six groups. We were four girls in one group Karen, Zazie, Nicky and I. We all have different levels and abilities, some of us are more advanced, some only attended a few classes before.The format of the class was again different, the aim this time was to get comfortable with the basic moves, such as slide monkey, kong, tic-tac – reverse, side-way vault etc..
After completing the first three sections we arrived at the kong station. Zazie is watching me doing the kong which wasn`t very well demonstrated. She is asking for a bit more details of how the kong works. Karen and I explained what the important parts are to do it right. Take off two feet with a bit distance to the obstacle, push on the obstacle with both hands at the same time, for a very short time both knees need to touch the chest with the body weight slightly forward above the shoulders and lending on the toes. Without much thinking Zazie is doing the move and “wow”, for the first time it was impressively great. Only the position of her landing needs a bit correction, landing on toes and shoulders slightly forward. But apart from that the move was perfect.
Nicky couldn`t go over the obstacle completely, but she managed the first step which is stepping on the obstacle. Only a few more repetitions and she`ll manage to complete it too. All of us watched Nicky giving her best, and the confidence she gets by seeing little progressions is amazing.
Karen, the longest female practitioner at the Academy is demonstrating the perfect kong, smooth, powerful and efficient. She is flying over the obstacle. She smiles at us and we can see the joy in her eyes. She didn`t expect to have it done as nicely as she is only coming back from an injury. Certainly the injury didn`t have any effect on her way of mastering the kong. The legendary loud voice from Forrest is saying “that was good”…
It is my turn again, I feel inspired and I really want to do it right this time. I take position and yes, I manage it. I can hear the loud voice again saying “that`s good, the girls are in form today”…
All four of us managed to complete the section in our own limit and abilities. It is irrelevant how we managed it. Every move can be mastered in different ways, it just needs to be adapted to one own level. We all in the group had different ways of doing it, but we managed it and we all felt satisfied.
The other sections were as challenging and as much fun as this one. We all together, men and women shared the pain, fun, and achievement of the session, but also the joy of the relaxing stretch at the end of the class.
It doesn`t matter which level, strength and abilities you have, there is always a way to go over obstacles. You just need to find your own way.
It was just another class among many to come..... :-)
About the Author : Agota3 Comments:
Great stuff!
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Dan, at
11:52 pm, May 29, 2009
Nicely written from the heart. Look forward to hopefully seeing you later at the (new outdoor) indoor academy class :).
By 
, at
4:52 pm, June 01, 2009
Always a pleasure seeing you in the classes and training with you :-) see you next Monday or Thursday.
By Agota, at
10:28 pm, June 04, 2009
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