Speeetz
Nearly didn't go to Spitz last night - the last few weeks I've been apathetic and not got anything out of it, this week nobody else was going, and libellum was just back from holiday and wanted to spend the evening snuggling in front of films. And yet... I had a powerful urge to go to Spitz - I just had this feeling that I would really benefit from it this week. I'm a great believer in following hunches and feelings at such times.
So, I compromised with libellum - I decided to go Spitz for the first hour and a half, then came home again to meet her for food, snuggling, and DVD watching.
My feeling was indeed correct. I don't know if it was because I'd caught up on my sleep over the weekend and was feeling relatively perky, or if it was the fact that I had none of my usual friends to chat with (although it's easy enough to find new people to chat to at Spitz!), or possibly whether it was because I took my staff this time - staff is my newest toy, so it's the one where I can still make fast progress sometimes, and also it's very 'full body' - hard to spin staff without feeling fully involved :) Anyway, I ended up learning not one but two new tricks! Okay, one and a half. Maybe one and a third... but it's a cool third! :-p
I can now do a really nice weird three-ball juggling thing - very different from my usual style, and I'm not sure yet how it's going to integrate, but I think it'll be a nice change of pace once I figure out how to work it in with everything else - should look nice with the glowballs. I also learned the first part of a contact staff trick, rolling the staff onto my arm with my hand on my shoulder, then straightening the arm and managing somehow to end up with the staff spinning around the back of the wrist. Goes into back of wrist spin on the other side, at which point I give up - the continuation of the trick is to pull that arm in so that hand goes onto the shoulder, somehow keeping the staff spinning from wrist to arm as you do it. More work required there :)
So, I compromised with libellum - I decided to go Spitz for the first hour and a half, then came home again to meet her for food, snuggling, and DVD watching.
My feeling was indeed correct. I don't know if it was because I'd caught up on my sleep over the weekend and was feeling relatively perky, or if it was the fact that I had none of my usual friends to chat with (although it's easy enough to find new people to chat to at Spitz!), or possibly whether it was because I took my staff this time - staff is my newest toy, so it's the one where I can still make fast progress sometimes, and also it's very 'full body' - hard to spin staff without feeling fully involved :) Anyway, I ended up learning not one but two new tricks! Okay, one and a half. Maybe one and a third... but it's a cool third! :-p
I can now do a really nice weird three-ball juggling thing - very different from my usual style, and I'm not sure yet how it's going to integrate, but I think it'll be a nice change of pace once I figure out how to work it in with everything else - should look nice with the glowballs. I also learned the first part of a contact staff trick, rolling the staff onto my arm with my hand on my shoulder, then straightening the arm and managing somehow to end up with the staff spinning around the back of the wrist. Goes into back of wrist spin on the other side, at which point I give up - the continuation of the trick is to pull that arm in so that hand goes onto the shoulder, somehow keeping the staff spinning from wrist to arm as you do it. More work required there :)