Today I was able to hit 100 dropspins on both hands already, all due to this video. I looked at some other ones, but none of them hand the quality and the depth of this one, and he kept referencing rifle, which is similar to air blade, that I have experience on. Tomorrow I have guard, and I have asked Sienna Rahatt, one of the color guard captains, to help me learn to toss. I asked her because she's currently in the "Sabre Squad" (the group of people assigned to sabre for the indoor 2017 season.)
Tuesday, February 14th
With the help of the that video, I was able to complete the new ~weird~ drop-stops on both hand (it's the way you stop the momentum of the sabre or flag or whatever. On flag when you do it every one says "droppy stoppy" it's comical, to say the least.) I only practice for twenty minutes today, which isn't a lot, but I'm going to learn how to do tosses tonight so that will hopefully compensate (fingers crossed)
Wednesday, February 15th
So it was Wednesday, and on Wednesdays I have about three nano seconds on free time, so I didn't practice at all. Whoops.
Thursday, February 16th
On this day, I had small amounts of free time, but I also had guard that night. So Danielle, our director, worked with the weapons a lot, and I was able to look at how everything was done. I could see how they caught, and threw the sabres which was huge and really important, because if you throw something in the air- it's going to come down at some point... and you better catch it.
Friday, February 17th
We didn't have school today, but we have a competition tomorrow. I went to my friend Amanda's house, and with her and my friend jasmine I ran a little boot camp for the competition. We practiced for about three hours, and when they were working on their individual parts, I was practicing sabre. I was able to throw it and catch it ten times in a row. I really, really, need to reassess my goals. Also, I was able to throw a triple. (not able to catch it, but I'm close.) I was also able to throw and catch a double.
Music: Not Over You (acoustic) by Tessa Violet
(video dated 2.19.17, only day I could film r.i.p.)
I may have gravely underestimated myself. I thought I didn't know a lot about this, but I've completed some very difficult things right off the bat. I may need to change the whole end product of this, to be able to do air blade and sabre. I still have the goal of learning a large portion of the sabre routine, so I may be able to try and do all of that as a challenge.Saturday, February 18th
There was a guard competition today. Our schedule was that we had an hour and a half practice before we left, and I got to the school forty minutes early, because I was over compensating for the traffic of the frostbite five-miler. So I waited outside of the square gym for forty minutes, just doing tosses and spins. I only dropped two tosses, and so I think I should really reassess my end goal. At the competition there was a performance guard, Q Color Guard, who had incredible weapons work and dance work. Watching their flags and sabres took my breath away, and made me extremely excited to interview the captains of Black Watch Color Guard on March 5th!
This is all so incredible, and makes me so happy. I'm really proud of my progress, it just makes me kind of annoyed that I've done so well- because now I don't know what to do from here!
Sunday, February 19th
Today I have a lot of time, and it's warmer. I'm practicing tosses today, and looking at videos of the assorted things you can learn on sabre. I hope that the interview with Black Watch will really help me. Today is focusing more on the educational side of the project, researching a lot of the different techniques and such. So far, I figure that singles and spins aren't mastery, so I can really work on more difficut things, or find some online routines, and teach it to myself.
wow who's that cute redhead cut out of the photo there
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