Half way to a Bronze Medallion
Friday 30th of April/Saturday 1st of May
These two days blurred into each other, so I’ll keep it as a single post.
El Smo-Go went to The Trace Facility to do some stage fighting with Morgan and a few others, which had a decent turn out compared to the last session I went to of that. Hopefully these will keep growing and we’ll get more stunties and people training to be stunties along to them. I picked up a few new things in the session, particularly about body language during fight scenes, how to look more agressive etc…
After that session a few Parkour people came around and we played on the bars and vaults, doing some siiiiiiick stuff. I’m starting to get the lache to precision a lot more easily than before, I’ve nailed it a few times. At around 7 we all headed into the city for a good night of long boarding. Unluckily for me, I got home at about 2am, set my alarm an hour early by mistake (getting up to go to Bronze Medallion in Maribyrnong) and took about 60-90 mins to get to sleep-which means I probably got about 2 or 3 hours sleep.
So my alarm wakes me up, I eat, shower, get dressed and go down to the station for my train. It’s only when I get to the station that I realise I’m up an hour earlier than I needed to be, which is shit considering the long day ahead of me. After a bit of bumming around in the city, I get over to Maribyrnong Aquatic Center at 9am, right on time. From 9 to 12.30 I was bored out of my brain as if I was back in school. All we did was listen to the instructor go over things that are taught in first aid courses, which is obviously important and very useful, but tedious when you did level 2 first aid the year before…
After our lunch break, it’s straight into the water for our 400m swim which has to be completed in under 13 mins. Time to find out if all the swimming I’ve been doing since late December has paid off! Usually I find the 100m free style pretty tiring, but slip streaming the people infront and really relaxing through the whole thing made it loads easier. The people infront of me were actually quite slow, so I over took a few and powered through my other strokes. When I finished my 400m, I was feeling fine which is a little bit of a surprise. I knew I’d made it under 13 mins, but was pretty happy to find out my time was 9mins and 30 seconds. Tomorrow there are only a few people left to do their 400m swim, and I’m considering going again for a faster time. There wont be heaps of people in the way and I’ll be able to go for a better time much more easily.
