Monday 24th of February 2011 – Capoeira/Julia and Gabriel/Cycling
I’ve been meaning to try and get you to do Capoeira lessons for a while now, but never found anything local. I knew there were lessons at the Tooting Leisure Centre, so finally we went on a Tuesday (8th of Feb) evening 7:30 to 9:30 – a tad late for school night. I was in serious pain for 3 days afterwards, I forgotten how intense it is. You were in pain too, but as you are doing free running in school and there’s a lot of acrobatics in capoeira, you seem keen to continue doing it. It’s legs and bum that hurt the most, but even my waist was killing me, despite doing Yoga and Zumba, and cycling regularly. A whole different set of muscles are used for Capoeira.
I found another lesson, where I have my physio (Recenter), on Weds 4:30 to 5:30. We went there last Wednesday, but all the kids were under the age of 7, you were the oldest by far. Despite that you really liked it. The class was small and the teacher is a nice woman. Compared with the large class on Tuesday, and the time, this is already looking like the best option. But then at the end of the lesson the teacher said there’s a class for your age group also on Weds, 6-7, so next week I’ll take you there, although you keep saying you want to do this one with the little kids!
http://www.dancadaliberdade.com/
I hope your ankle is better by then you managed to totally mess it up at the Hub on Thursday evening, by standing on it and twisting by accident, this after a day of free running in school. It sounds like you are doing forward flips, but I can’t see them, as you only do them on a sandbox. Good to see you are being safe about it. You have been showing us lots of videos of your school mates doing free running, I guess soon you will be starring in them. Very exciting, I try not to think about the dangers. I’d be doing it too if I was your age! No point in living life without adrenalin hey? Of the right kind, of course.
I’m still cycling, today my 10.46km journey to work took 33 minutes, my time has improved quite a bit! My target is to do it in 30 mins. Main obstacles are the traffic lights really, I could probably do it in that time if I did it very late at night and jumped the lights. But I can’t do that during the rush hour! Although some people do it, you need to be either very experienced or very stupid to do it, and I’m neither. Do you know what the biggest cause of death for cyclists is in London? Left turning lorries. Lorries have many blind spots and too many cyclists try to undertake them…
Here’s today record breaking (for me) journey:
https://runkeeper.com/user/LeticiaTootington/activity/26816939
It’s half term for you and it all started with a weekend full of Julia and Gabriel. Julia got back from her year in Brazil on Wednesday. She got her job back at the pub (Trinity Arms, Brixton) straight away, and a free place to live (belongs to the pub!). Go Julia! Poor Gabriel, on the other hand got dumped by his girlfriend Vanessa (they had been in Brazil recently too) and kicked out of his house, so we had to find a place for him very quickly, and lend him money to pay for rent, and help him move on Monday. On Tuesday it was his 26th birthday, so they both came over and we had a feijoada. Gabriel showed me how to do it, now I can! I was off work until today, so it was great to have them around for the last few days after seeing very little of them for so long.
Yesterday evening we went to visit Ade, as it was her 40th birthday, and I wanted to give her the present I made – it took me about 40 hours to get it ready, then I had to print it (on Photobox) and framed it), here’s the photo. Today everyone is praising it on Facebook, I’m loving it!!!! It’s been a real labour of love, as you know I was on the computer for hours building this.
The real size is A2! That image was built on photoshop and had nearly 700 layers (i.e. 700 photos) and is 1GB in size… I converted to JPEG, and it reduced it to a more manageable 40MB.
