Day: Oct 28, 2018

Looks like I have made a return to the climbing wall!

Today I returned to Red Spider Climbing, I worked on my Blues and Greens, then I started to work on Oranges. I have been skipping them and going straight to green but they’re essential to help with my technique. It would be great to find a partner to do it with but no one has seemed interested yet at college so I’ll keep it under wraps for now, the crew at red spider are great and everyone on the wall is very friendly it’s a great environment!

My goal is to now perfect my Dropknee technique for the following three reasons:

  • Employing a dropknee can help you reach holds that seem far away. When you lock in a great dropknee your hip turns toward the wall, taking most of the weight of its corresponding leg, and your feet stay in a stable position. This allows you to generate upward motion with your feet and your hips, as opposed to using your arms to pull. You’ll find that this actually increases the overall distance you can reach.
  • Employing a dropknee can help you balance on the wall while climbing, and therefore stick to relatively bad holds. Given the relative stability of your body and your ability to reach a long distance, you create more time to optimise your grip on the next hold—a huge advantage, if said hold is terrible.
  • Employing a dropknee at any given moment gives you the appearance of a climbing master. All the hotties in the gym will be impressed which is always a bonus.

With a little bit of repetition and constant practice I should begin to feel the natural feel of the position and the motion it creates, when I watch other climbers attempt the competition wall they use it a lot the amount of energy it saves is very helpful.

The technique depends upon the climbers level of flexibility, which I find myself to be during BJJ, the possibility of damaging tendons, ligaments, and muscles around the knee are very much real.

Whilst doing this if I start to feel any pain I’ll drop, taking my time is crucial too just in case if I were to jerk my knee into the position then end up tearing my Medial Collateral Ligament.

Family musicianship

I never knew until today that four year olds possess the capability to draw Les Claypool and to tolerate his works alongside Primus. I was sat down at my desk doodling, then my brother Freddie comes upstairs asking why I’m playing music and calling it “weird”. He came over sat down and added to what I had started, I have a picture on my desk as I had just finished drawing Les properly and I think Fred picked up that he is tall…

He has started Primary School in September, ever since his vocabulary has expanded and hes beginning to understand what I tell him and what I am listening to, which is Primus most of the time so a part of me feels bad as he does not know what is going on especially when it comes to the music videos.

When it comes to any music that’s being played round the house by me and Harvey or in the car he always picks out the drums and keeps a steady beat with his head or feet, its hilarious but on the other hand it’s fairly impressive for a four year old. I am definitely going to keep on encouraging him towards music because all my other siblings so far have picked up an instrument or something musical.

  • Harvey picked up the bass when Ben joined school which is cool, hes picking it up fast and he’s trying to pick up guitar alongside learning theory with me, at the moment he is in year 9,
  • Jack has singing lessons at school which he enjoys and doesn’t let his autism get in the way of what he wants to do with himself, he’s currently in year 10 and working through his GCSE music with Ben,
  • Sadie has just started secondary school and has begun piano lessons in school with Ben’s influence through his engaging lessons which is great for her to try and push herself with,
  • Max is in year 5 at the moment and at the beginning of the new term he has picked up the clarinet with high hopes of progressing through to playing the saxophone when he gets the hang of it,
  • And finally we have Zach he is in year 2/3 I can’t recall, he hasn’t had any interest with any instruments, he is into technology and all that fun stuff so I am not too sure on what he wants to do, he isn’t a big fan of loud noise either so we shall see.
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