I've swum twice since I last posted. They just weren't profound, so no blog about them....
Tonight I had my first gymnastics class. I'm taking "adult tumbling" from the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts. The class is an hour of tumbling and an hour of trampoline. We worked on headstands, handstands, forward rolls and cartwheels. Then we went on the trampoline and I did sit jumps and half turns. I will be SORE tomorrow, but it was awesome.
The one sort of swimming related thing is that I got HORRIBLY motion sick from the forward rolls. I got a bit motion sick on the last swim as well. So its time to work on systemic solutions. The wrist bands worked on my train trip last month. Ginger seems to work as well (though I don't know about eating during class). One friend suggested ear plugs for swimming, but that won't make a difference for tumbling. A classmate tonight said she takes a Dramamine an hour before class.
For the next few weeks I'm going to try various interventions both when I swim and when I roll, and see what happens.
Oh, and for the record, part of why I'm taking this class is to learn to do a cartwheel before my 40th birthday-- in 11 months.
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