10/4/2023 0 Comments Week two: first attemptsWe met up Tuesday night and started the base of the projects. We headed over to Lila’s house after practice and started by videoing the ideal skills. Then we had the other person make a first attempt. We did this with our two main skills leaving the reach skills for the future. There was one small bump in the road when we realized that the rec center closed at six, which was when we both got out of practice. So we last minute moved to Lila’s basement and various locations around her house. There happened to be a lot of moving furniture but that's ok we made it work. We have plans to meet again in two weeks to review progress and continue teaching. Cheer:As a reminder the skills selected for Lila to learn were a back walkover and an aerial. After all of the first attempts we started the teaching process. For back walkovers Alyssa started by demonstrating the proper technique. Then she had Lila practice her back bend kick out until she had that pretty solid. Then Lila did the back walkover with a spotter a couple times. The back walkover made a lot of progress so hopefully she will get it soon. Then we started on the aerial. Alyssa taught the prep and then had Lila try it. We then did cartwheel pop ups. The aerial will probably take a lot more work. Alyssa gave Lila exercises to practice before we met again. Dance:The skills selected for Alyssa to learn were turns in second and a calypso. Whenever Lila started teaching she started with the basis of turning. Spotting is how people make it around in turns. It is basically where you need to keep your focus at one point in front of you at all times. Your eyes should never leave it. So we started by practicing this. Then we went over basic prep of a turn and practiced that for a while. Then she practiced the first turn. Then we started calypsos, this started by learning the prep. Then Lila taught the basics of the jump portion. The best way to get a calypso is to practice it so that’s what Alyssa did.
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