Headache, chills and nausea last Tuesday and Wednesday... First I thought maybe I had eaten something I shouldn't have, but on Thursday it turned into a sore and sawdusty throat... Perfectly timed for the weekend's translation-assistance job at the Budapest FMS course, oh my.
But whatever, show must certainly go on, my voice held, we had a lot of fun, my certification procedure as a CK-FMS was finally completed and the course was, all in all, a tremendous success.
It was great to see Brett again and working with him is always a pleasure, even if he keeps joking about how he's set himself the goal of giving me a hard time translating. Precisely formulated, no-nonsense information serving a clear-cut message brought across to the participants in a highly (also time-) effective way - in a most enjoyable presentation. As usual, so far. But, and maybe you've never thought about it this way - translating is tough, but being translated is nonetheless a helluva job. Not only is it a nuisance that you keep falling out of your own rhythm as translating interrupts you all the time, also, you have the same amount of time but you can use half of it at best. Which means you have to strip everything to the bone, decide what to skip and what to keep to still get the main thing through (in this case a whole completely new and revolutionary system) - and that pretty much on the go...
Working with the groups during practice brought me a lot of insights, too. I've been confronted with a whole lot of questions, not only about technical details like is it now a 3 or a 2 or if the stance during testing Shoulder Mobility matters and the like, but about the whys, the biomechanical background of the tests/exercises, the philosophy of the screening and correcting procedure and the hows of implementation/integration into training. Attending a course, listening, understanding, internalizing things like I did at the CK-FMS back in August and applying them in your own job later is one thing, but having to explain them, under time pressure, in a concise, hopefully logical and easily comprehensible way is a completely different matter, forces you to re-think, re-organize and re-systematize whatever you know. This is something unique (and highly addictive) to working as an assistant and I'm looking forward to having the same experience at the Denmark RKC in May.
As for training, I felt pretty much wasted on Monday and Tuesday but I did a little bit yesterday:
10/10 swings, 10/10 cleans and 10/10 snatches @16kg
C&P @16kg, alternated with single (opposite) arm, single leg DL @24kg, 5 ladders of 4
10*10 swings @24kg with a client, I-go-you-go-style
Going barefoot, applying Pavel's knee stabilization technique and concentrating on reaching back during SLDL works wonders.
But whatever, show must certainly go on, my voice held, we had a lot of fun, my certification procedure as a CK-FMS was finally completed and the course was, all in all, a tremendous success.
It was great to see Brett again and working with him is always a pleasure, even if he keeps joking about how he's set himself the goal of giving me a hard time translating. Precisely formulated, no-nonsense information serving a clear-cut message brought across to the participants in a highly (also time-) effective way - in a most enjoyable presentation. As usual, so far. But, and maybe you've never thought about it this way - translating is tough, but being translated is nonetheless a helluva job. Not only is it a nuisance that you keep falling out of your own rhythm as translating interrupts you all the time, also, you have the same amount of time but you can use half of it at best. Which means you have to strip everything to the bone, decide what to skip and what to keep to still get the main thing through (in this case a whole completely new and revolutionary system) - and that pretty much on the go...
Working with the groups during practice brought me a lot of insights, too. I've been confronted with a whole lot of questions, not only about technical details like is it now a 3 or a 2 or if the stance during testing Shoulder Mobility matters and the like, but about the whys, the biomechanical background of the tests/exercises, the philosophy of the screening and correcting procedure and the hows of implementation/integration into training. Attending a course, listening, understanding, internalizing things like I did at the CK-FMS back in August and applying them in your own job later is one thing, but having to explain them, under time pressure, in a concise, hopefully logical and easily comprehensible way is a completely different matter, forces you to re-think, re-organize and re-systematize whatever you know. This is something unique (and highly addictive) to working as an assistant and I'm looking forward to having the same experience at the Denmark RKC in May.
As for training, I felt pretty much wasted on Monday and Tuesday but I did a little bit yesterday:
10/10 swings, 10/10 cleans and 10/10 snatches @16kg
C&P @16kg, alternated with single (opposite) arm, single leg DL @24kg, 5 ladders of 4
10*10 swings @24kg with a client, I-go-you-go-style
Going barefoot, applying Pavel's knee stabilization technique and concentrating on reaching back during SLDL works wonders.
3 comments:
Congratulation on your CK-FMS. One of the eight CK-FMS instructor in the planet.
Must have been difficult.
I'll be heading there this May, hopefully.
Thank you, Taikei,
it is the usual thing, like with the RKC, you get an information overload before the lunch break on the first day already, then you just try to be as present as possible and hope your brain will somehow soak it all up like a sponge even if you feel totally lost...
Then it takes weeks and months to re-read and re-think and slowly sort it all out. And, as Gray said and I, honestly, couldn't believe, you do like 30-50 screenings and pieces just slip to their places like by themselves and you suddenly know what to do, you suddenly have the overview.
You'll love it, too, I'm sure. I hope you can make it.
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