Themed Training - Hips

After themed training, focusing on the hips. Some new people tonight. Trey, who I met in Charlottesville at the VA State Jam, and his friend Frank. Both of them were very out of shape and could hardly last the warm-up. All the same, I pushed them and we began some exercises focusing on either increasing hip flexion flexibility or hip extension power. Most of these were hops, duck-walks, the beginning phase of the kong vault and the like. Also, I tried to teach the ending phase of a climb-up where hips need to pop up to get your feet on the ledge.. Trey could do it sloppily, but not well enough to get his foot up (just his knee). Frank couldn't do it at all. No worries. Afterward, we played around some, talked, explored some movements and I gave them an introduction to the movements. Along the way, a girl got interested, I gave her all the info, and it seems she'll be with us in two weeks. Score.