Beast Skills

I anticipated having a bit of free time on this trip (hmm 10 months off, ya think?). So with that in mind I thought I should come up with some skill I would like to acquire I can practice during the down time. One thing that I thought would be really cool would be to learn to play piano, you know, tickle the ivories as they say. I looked at roll-up keyboards, but lets be serious. Learning to play piano on this trip is not very practical.

I was also pondering at the same time, what am I going to do to keep in shape? I’ve been going to the gym the past 4 months and have built up some muscle again, hate to lose it.
From Capoeira, I have been practicing doing a hand stand, and against a wall, I have been doing handstand pushups. I thought it would be cool if I could do a handstand pushup without using a wall for balance. That would be my challenge. Before we left, I cruised the internet for some tips on how I might meet my goal. I found beastskills.com, and the York Coursework. Great stuff right up my alley!

Well, we are 3 weeks in on the trip and I can do almost 10 handstand pushups using the wall, but still can’t do it on my own. I can hold a handstand for about 5 seconds, but I need to increase that to about 30.