Thomas Eakins: "The Gross Clinic."
Eakins is one of my favorite American painters, and if you're ever in Philadelphia you need to check out the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It has a ton of his stuff there. More info on this particular painting here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gross_Clinic
The big news on my front, is that I got a bad injury this week out of nowhere. Last weekend I was shredding and feeling fine. Then on Monday afternoon at work, my right heel started hurting out of nowhere. My best guess is that I have plantar fasciitis, but I haven't seen a doctor so who knows. No matter what the case, it hurts like hell to put any weight on my right heel, and I'm limping around. I'm still walking the dog, since Haley is 8 months pregnant and the sidewalks are still covered in ice. But yeah, lots of pain. I'm hoping to do some stretches and continue taking anti inflammatories, so hopefully I recover quickly. This may put an end to my pursuit of the LOTDs for a while though.
As I mentioned in my last post, my last session was split between LOTDs and drilling:
Here's the drilling portion of the session:C-Fan wrote: My second goal of the session was to work on some boring drills. I'm hoping to use the winter as a time to revisit my basics and improve my foundation..
Not much of note, though the dynos may be a personal record. If its not, its certainly the most I've hit in a row in the past few years. Looking over my drill session, it surprises me that I got my weird injury this week. Playing only once a week probably had something to do with it. I'm also guessing that my lack of stretching after sessions probably didn't help either. But looking at my session, I wasn't even doing any big tricks. Most of what I was hitting was both sided intermediate drills, so getting this injury feels unfair. Anyway, maybe its a good excuse to rest for a while, and when I come back I'll really work on true basics for a while.
Gonna close this post out with a random story/realization. Back in July, I think Dan Boyle asked me if I had hit paradox whirling swirl BSOS. I didn't think I had, so I went into a session trying for it, and was super stoked when I got it:
I didn't give it any more thought for several more months. Then today I was looking for an old video of mine where I hit predator back to back, and when I found it guess what trick I hit bsos at the 22 second mark?
And that was back in October of 2014! Just another reminder that my memory is not what it used to be. You'd think I'd remember hitting that, but quite clearly I did not. It definitely makes me feel happy that I've kept a blog for 13 years, and that I have so much video documentation of my game over the years. I checked my YT account just now, and it says I have posted 2488 videos and gotten 415,000 views over the years. That's crazy.