Day 15:
What lesson does today bring?
The sudden and startling realisation that my body, without orders from me, has deviated from Party protocol during it's TGU performance!
I don't know what made me think about it, but at round about rep 6 tonight, I tried to remember the last time I'd done a proper 'high bridge' before sweeping my leg through...and I couldn't. What happens now is a non-existent bridge: seamlessly, my hips move, my leg sweeps, my knee plants.
Then I observe other things...the angles of my arms and legs are...not wrong, but different.
My eyes are no longer fixed on the 'bell, but soft-focused in it's general area, a Zen like non-focus on the 'bell. In short, my body has adapted to the constant repetition, it's found it's own, more efficient, and I believe more fluid and graceful way, of holding a ball of Iron at arms length and standing up.
Am I doing a TGU?
Without doubt.
Am I doing a party approved TGU?
No way.
But it works...it works better than what I was doing before.
Even if I do have to hand my cards back to my glorious leader, and hang my head in shame.
I tell my clients all the time:
I don't teach you, the Kettlebell teaches you.
And now, as always, it's taught me.
Evolution, not Revolution, but still I learn...
General out.
That's it! It's becoming "fluid". I know I certainly would not be doing proper get-ups, swings, or snatches under the trained eye of an RKC trainer. I like that Martone teaches moving fluidly, and not everybody moves the same.
ReplyDeleteEvolution.
The more I read and hear about Martone, the more I like.
ReplyDeleteI follow the TGU exactly as Martone taught it, because I know of no one who has gained so much from it as him. I can't think of anyone who could be a better authority than he on the safest way to to it.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, your body learns to do the movement fluidly and you don't necessarily have to have that hard focus on the bell. This is a great exercise for kinestetic awareness.
-Jim Beaumont