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Mar. 5th, 2005 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikOoo! Forgot to mention...
Today after wushu Shifu congratulated me on completing my front splits.
Now, honestly, I'm a little dubious. They're doing pretty darned well (for me) but I think I should be a little lower and looser at the bottom there. But, on the other hand, for having start wushu at 29 and with a history of spine injuries, whee! This is particularly important, becaue it's pass/fail criteria for my next level test.
Of course, having not been able to jump for the last few months, I have bigger problems to worry about with my next level test. Still, I have more confidence of getting jumps down eventually than I have had with the splits. And the splits were also affected by the recent back injury stuff -- I was close to completing them before, but I lost a lot of ground when my SI joint started bugging me.. (Recent meaning my 2003 car accident, as opposed to the Microsoft stuff.)
There's progress on the back stuff, too. It finally occurred to me that the one thing I've been getting out of PT is being put in traction... and we have an inversion table at home. So after an interesting adventure of hanging myself upside down* I spent a while opening up my SI joint. Now my SI joint is a little swollen and cranky -- but no shooting pains down my legs. And I can kick without shooting pains down my legs, which I haven't been able to do in a while.
If this takes, perhaps I can start jumping again, soon. I was actually feeling pretty good today in class (excepting the shooting pains down my leg) and having to sit out of jumping was really annoying. Jumping is just so much fun. Even if I mostly suck at it. And sitting out is always kind of irritating anyway.
* There is a latch on the inversion table which allows it to be locked in the upside down position. This managed to open on it's own, while I was upside down, with neither housemate particularly close. Now, I could pull my upper body upright (I guess my abs aren't entirely dead) and I could have unfastened my feet, but I wasn't entirely sure I could do so without falling... luckily it came free, and then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corivax helped me diagnose the problem.
The inversion table will lock with someone in the upside down position. My heavens. I mean, I can only imagine the possibilities, and that's not even my sort of thing.
Today after wushu Shifu congratulated me on completing my front splits.
Now, honestly, I'm a little dubious. They're doing pretty darned well (for me) but I think I should be a little lower and looser at the bottom there. But, on the other hand, for having start wushu at 29 and with a history of spine injuries, whee! This is particularly important, becaue it's pass/fail criteria for my next level test.
Of course, having not been able to jump for the last few months, I have bigger problems to worry about with my next level test. Still, I have more confidence of getting jumps down eventually than I have had with the splits. And the splits were also affected by the recent back injury stuff -- I was close to completing them before, but I lost a lot of ground when my SI joint started bugging me.. (Recent meaning my 2003 car accident, as opposed to the Microsoft stuff.)
There's progress on the back stuff, too. It finally occurred to me that the one thing I've been getting out of PT is being put in traction... and we have an inversion table at home. So after an interesting adventure of hanging myself upside down* I spent a while opening up my SI joint. Now my SI joint is a little swollen and cranky -- but no shooting pains down my legs. And I can kick without shooting pains down my legs, which I haven't been able to do in a while.
If this takes, perhaps I can start jumping again, soon. I was actually feeling pretty good today in class (excepting the shooting pains down my leg) and having to sit out of jumping was really annoying. Jumping is just so much fun. Even if I mostly suck at it. And sitting out is always kind of irritating anyway.
* There is a latch on the inversion table which allows it to be locked in the upside down position. This managed to open on it's own, while I was upside down, with neither housemate particularly close. Now, I could pull my upper body upright (I guess my abs aren't entirely dead) and I could have unfastened my feet, but I wasn't entirely sure I could do so without falling... luckily it came free, and then
corivax helped me diagnose the problem.The inversion table will lock with someone in the upside down position. My heavens. I mean, I can only imagine the possibilities, and that's not even my sort of thing.
