I think I pulled a muscle at the top of my thigh Wednesday at practice, but it hurt only that night and only today. No in between. Maybe it's the way I skate? I have no idea. So, practice...
Practice was great! Hollywood Hiplash ran practice because Cupcake Cadaver (our captain) was in Charleston NSO-ing a Chemical Valley Roller Girls bout (along with a few other of our teammates). I had texted Hollywood yesterday and asked if she could work with us on stuff that we would need to pass for minimum skills since myself, along with the freshmeat girls were going to be there today. So she did.
Everything was great, except we had to skate the opposite direction on the track. If you've never had to do this, you really cannot even begin to comprehend how difficult it is to change EVERYTHING - your perception, your leg position, etc. It strained the muscles in my left calf so bad that they kept cramping... So I guess I'll have to up my intake of bananas and orange juice. Plus my back was not in the best shape today...
I'm not really sure what's going on. I'm falling apart! The top inside of my left thigh is hurting, my back is bad, and my coccyx started acting up again only AFTER I skate. Fuck that noise. I'm not trying to be hurt before another minimum skills. I can't tell you all how much I DESIRE being out on that floor, bolting that inside line and knocking down any bitch that gets in my way.
Anyway, more about practice:
We did die drills. She split us up into two groups, the first group rolled the die. Whatever number the die landed on, they skated that many laps. We waited in the middle and rolled our die. My group rolled the number 4 EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It might have been fine had we been skating in the CORRECT direction on the track, but we weren't. Opposite direction.
Then we did an obstacle course drill to help with the minimum skills. Hollywood set up cones in a bunch, and we had to walk on our toe stops to get through them. I would have done it, but nobody brought their wrench today and for some god awful reason, my toe stops are two different lengths. After that we skated to one corner of the floor and there were cones lined up for us to weave in and out of. After that we skated to the second straightaway and there was a broom handle for us to jump over. And rounding up the obstacle course were cones diagonally placed to work on our laterals. I can hop. I just don't trust my skates to catch me (although I did hop a few times today and know that I can do it - so why can't I trust them?)
My laterals are fine.
If I pick up speed I'm good at weaving.
I don't know how this toe stop business is going to work out. I'm top heavy because of my fat tummy so I'm like, "Oh jesus fuck I'm going to fall."
We moved on to a long drill and I forget what it's called. But it's a series of skating combined with whistle blowing and you do what they tell you to do. T-stops, tomahawk stops, plow stops, skating on one foot, scissors, sticky skate (basically weaving your legs opposite one another without picking the feet up), and hops, and then just skating in between (and/or sprinting). First we did it going in the right direction and then we did it counter-clockwise (FML). I fell, and I knew I had momentum behind me when I actually SLID across the floor. I FELL SMALL THOUGH. Curled in a ball, slid on my knees and got right back up like a weeble.
The only other drill we did was a pack drill. We all lined up in 3s (2 people were in the back because of the odd number) and when the whistle would blow one person skated out of the front line to the back of the pack, and the pack would have to move up and fill the gap. It was very useful considering we were really close and constantly moving IN the pack formation, which will really help us on the track.
I think I can get some speed behind me. Tomorrow I'm going in just a little early and attempting the 25 in 5 just to see how many I can get. It's harder than it sounds, but like I said... I honestly believe that I can get some speed behind me. So I guess we'll see.
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