Flapping wildly below.
A swan appears to glide effortlessly across the surface of the water, while paddling like mad to get it‘s mass moving. Have you seen the size of a swans feet, they’re huge, they’ll take some effort to push.
A lot of work goes in to making something look easy.
I’ve been climbing this afternoon with my boy and he nailed it. I was pleased with a climb I did a V2 out of a cave around an overhang and up a wall.
Then A asked if he could try, I encouraged him to have a go but didn’t think he’d make it based on the fact that it pushed me and he is literally half my height.
The way he moved up the wall made me so proud of his skills, he was so controlled and smooth, whereas I used brute force and ignorance.
He used his weight and strength to balance and think through his next moves, it was amazing for me to watch.
His seemingly “natural” climbing ability isn’t simply natural though. We’ve worked hard on his confidence, he’s always climbing and clambering on anything he sees. He joins in some workouts and is always dangling from his slack line in the garden with K and his friend.
We can all achieve way more than we do when we’re given the right tools and guidance. I can be struggling with something at Jiu Jitsu and my coach will explain it in a slightly different way and it can suddenly work, sometimes I need time to process it and practice it. Most of the time I need to improve my strength in a certain range or movement.
It’s one of the reasons, we tweaked the way we run our sessions for the Team Achieve @ Home programme. We wanted to improve strength and fitness for not only everyday life but anything life throws at you.
One of our members had to sprint to catch a train, got to the train, sat down and realised that they weren’t struggling for breath and the run was easy. No pulled muscles and gasps for oxygen as the train pulls away.
We start our next block on Monday, if you want to know more about it, let me know.
Darren “The teacher becomes the student” Checkley
