The Value of Practice

by Crazy Ivan


4 weeks ago to the day Maverick and I put up a little video of us messing around on the Slack Line.  It was only my 2nd day on it and Mav's 3rd so we were understandably terrible at it.  We were still having fun, of course, which is all that really matters when it comes to toys.

But since then we've been hard at work practicing.  Of course, Slack Line isn't like Myachi.  You can't practice slack-lining every day because you have to wait for good enough weather (kind of hard to do in the snow and/or rain) and it takes a lot of physical effort.  You can practice Myachi even if you're bed ridden, but if you're so much as a bit under the weather, slack lining is out.

So over the past 4 weeks me and Mav have taken every chance we can to get some practice in.  We'll come home sore after a day's work and spend an hour or more walking back and forth on that thing, missing new tricks and occasionally hitting them.  With Kid out of the country and all the craziness we've had going on at the schools we haven't gotten anywhere near the practice that we were hoping for.

But all that being said, practice pays off.  We're walking at a slightly longer distance now and we have way more control of what we can do.  We're probably building all kinds of weird stabilizer muscles along the way as well.

I wanted to post this video because I know a lot of you saw the first video we did and I want to point out what a little bit of practice can do for you.  Between the two of us we've put in maybe 12 or 13 hours actually on the slack line over the last month (that works out to an average of about thirteen and a half minutes a day each) and that's been enough to make a marked improvement.



Obviously we both still have a long way to go before we've mastered this thing but every day we get closer to it.  I'll be posting another video around the 22nd of April (weather permitting) and hopefully we'll have gotten better by then.  I don't know about you, but I'm dying to see Maverick pull a Crypto on that thing.