New Tricks

I’ve started trying to learn two new things. One is not exactly new but I could only do it really poorly so I’ve decided to get better at it and to get help learning it. I’ve actually noticed a drastic improvement in the past few weeks that I’ve been doing it. I have the movements and the breathing right so now I just have to get my stamina up so that I can go the distance. When the whole thing is done I hope I’ll be able to go from end to end and back without stopping and standing up sometime in the middle.

The other thing I’m trying to learn is something I’ve been told that I didn’t have the natural ability for and that I didn’t have the right physical qualities for. For some reason though, I’ve always wanted to learn it and a couple of months ago I got the necessary equipment and I started poking around with it. I can’t say that I’m having a as good as an improvement on this one as on the first. It’s requiring me to develop some dexterity and strength in particular areas of my body which didn’t get that much movement. I wasn’t getting frustrated or anything because I was pretty sure this was going to be a challenge. I recently found a pattern that required less drastic changes in position and I’m sort of getting the rhythm right which is giving me hope that I might actually learn this thing.

Anyway, those who really know me know that I have this thing for learning and thirty’s never too old to learn new tricks.