Day 241 of practice.

Well, it’s been a week of spending five minutes a day with a sword on my head! I discovered a few things… Five minutes seems like a long time when you have a sword on your head. If I didn’t hold my head just right, my neck hurt. And all this time that I thought my sword didn’t balance well because it sucked, well, it turned out that I was the one who sucked. I have to be tighter with my isolations! After just a week I noticed less wobble. I think I’ll keep up the sword practice, although I might not do five minutes at a time every day.

Yesterday’s practice ended up being fun. I walked into the office with my sword and my husband had pulled up a drum solo song on YouTube, and I started doing isolations to the song… I basically did a very simple 2.5 minute drum solo while balancing my sword. It was FUN! I think I might work on a very short drum solo that I can do with my sword, to pair with the Convivio solo, since that one is only 3.5 minutes long. I wouldn’t want to do a whole routine as a sword-balancing drum solo, too limiting and too gimmicky, but it would be a fun way to impress a crowd, and even if I never end up using it after all, it will be fun to practice.

The rest of today’s practice was hand and arm isolations, since I was busy getting some things caught up, but tomorrow I plan to get tons of practice — including going to the park if it’s not storming or over 100.