This class knew a bad start: in the night from thursday to friday, I miscounted the amount of steps from the stairs in a nightly descent. While I thought I still had one to go, I was already down. I placed my right foot completely different because of that and immediately felt how 'something' went wrong in my foot. Not good, that was for sure! Even walking hurt, let alone that I would be practicing dance-moves.

I couldn't even do the warm-up at dance-class, as things were just to painful.
I tried to get things a little bit better with a slight pause and some stretching. It was better, but jumping and landing on it was something for later.

At the same time I noticed that every movement took a huge effort: I was drained while I had hardly done anything, just like I was getting ill.
I got the flu 4 days later, and I probably felt the first signs of it.

To be able to do a so-called 'hop', I got some stretch-advice. For the particular move, you have to be able to throw your stretched leg up into the air. Getting the leg up wasn't the biggest problem, although I lacked the force needed for speed ofcourse. The problem was how high I should be able to get it. The knee of the leg up in the air has to pass the hip-line. In other words: the angle between the leg you are standing on and the leg up in the air, needs to exceed 90 degrees.
Well, how much I would love to do that, I just couldn't make that at all... 75 degrees was about the highest I could get it, after that, things would get rather painfull...

Therefore, I had to find something I could use to stretch my legs.
Looking around at home soon proved that the washing-machine was high enough, without being too high.
Though I couldn't get my legs pretty high at dance class, I was able to get my legs up the machine quite easily, where I expected quite a struggle.

• Lesson 1. October 7, 2011
• Lesson 3. November 4, 2011

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