Weekly Progress Report: 2012-09-14
Challenge #10: The PicLetters
At last! Walking through Montreal Downtown, I encountered this lovely 1% around a corner. (Note: In Québec, 1% of the budget in any public construction project has to go to some form of visual art accompanying the project, thus we affectionately call them “1 percents”)
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-09-03
Challenge #10 : The PicLetters
Going on a small hike with friends this weekend, I finally found the letter that was eluding me the most.
I encountered some ski racks..
And finally.. here was my elusive letter K! Read more
Weekly Status Report: 2012-06-25
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
Freestanding handstand is progressing at a very noticeable pace. I finally got to shoot myself holding it for more than 5 seconds!
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Moreover, I recently watched Logan Christopher’s take on Press to Handstand progressions. Now that I’m able to do full handstand push-ups, I started touching again a beginner’s balancing position, the Frog Stand, as a way to start working on the pressing up. The first step is to just get off the knees and try to hold there. Believe me, I shall need to build strength in that area. Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-03-25
This is gonna be a quick report; it was intended for last Sunday, but time and technical constraints made it come out later. But here it finally comes.
Challenge #8: Iron cross
Recently, I started practicing the full Muscle-up movement using deload bands (and wondered at why I hadn’t thought of it before). I started off at 2 or 3 and I’m already at around 7-8 for a set; it’s getting easier.
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Filming myself, I think the most important point to work on for more efficiency, is to try to keep closer to the bar, so as to eliminate the superfluous back-and-forth movement away from it. For some reason though, so far it has seemed more natural for me to do the movement like this, despite attempts at aiming my head to cross the bar at the top. I shall analyze further why that is the case.
Challenge #10: The Picletters
Hey I guess I’m on a spree these days. Last week I went to Chicago for work; those pictures were taken really fast, on the spot as we had very little time to visit downtown. As a side comment, Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-03-19
Challenge #6 : Straddle Press to Handstand
I told you last week I had successfully touched my head on a handstand (wide) push-up. Here’s a video with some more of them.
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I feel presses and core work are what’s going to work better for a while, so I’ll be concentrating on that.
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-01-09
My Vacation of the Year™ is already over. Back to Work and Stuff™ !
Challenge #6 : Straddle Press to Handstand
Elbow Planche: I got it! 67 seconds max hold, effectively adding 9 seconds to my last record and blasting the goal away. On to the next step of learning hand balanding: trying it out as much as possible!
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Tuck Planche: 11 seconds! Steady progress. I’ve been experimenting with movements and variations based on Darryl’s work, but Read more
Lame Excuses and New Challenges
Holà again!
So after this impromptu hiatus, I’m finally back and will hopefully start posting regularly again. What happened is I clearly underestimated the no-break pace on the weeks following my Dragonboat training camp. We’ve had competitions at Pickering, ON and Ottawa, ON, and had a blast, as well as very good results.
Lame excuses aside, I did tell you in my last post that I’d describe the latest challenges people submitted me to. So, without further ado (I’ve always wanted to write that sometime) …
Challenge #9: “Le Moment de Vérité”
Challenge #3: First Pic & Sunnyday Walk
So! Quick post today, merely because I spent most of my time this week playing around the new theme. I won’t provide a link to the new theme, because you’re in it. Like, look around you. *Sigh* On the computer!
Anyway, if you want to compare with the old theme (eeeww!), it’s here. Quite a change, huh?
Ok, enough of that. I have officially started Challenge #3, so HERE IS THE FIRST PIC FOR ALL TO SEE:
