Grinder. A word that means many different things in many different places. In the skate community it’s a rail to be subjected to any amount of abuse. In Boston, it’s the greatest meatball sub you’ve ever had. IN the butcher’s shop or wood worker’s shop it’s something else entirely.
Yesterday in Kapiolani, it came to mean something, yet again, completely different for those that turned out. Yesterday’s training was a real grinder; relentless, Â unyielding, taxing to the last. Keep your nose to the grindstone, push yourself forward and come out the other end having shown yourself right then and there for an athlete you may have never known to exist before.
Michele, Justine and Kristin decided they wanted to show the grindstone exactly what unrelenting looked like and smashed it to pieces! Great job.
Top lesson to be learned from Thursday: Inga was a prime example on this one. Not all movements are going to work for every person every day. She had some issues that we needed to work around and adapt the training to suit. That’s exactly what we did. We stuck with it, trying one variation and then another until we found the way for her to be able to jump in in a way that worked for where she was physically that day. Same story with Hillary in the morning crew. If your training isn’t working in the moment, you have to be like a dog with a bone. Work at it until you find a way to get safely through to the other side. Otherwise it beats you…and that just shouldn’t happen.
Thank you so much for your hard work! I’ll see everyone on Tuesday. Don’t forget that small group happens every M/W/F at noon, 2pm and 6pm. Email me to reserve a spot as space is limited.
