Was rather aprehensive this week. Last session I didn’t really know what I had let myself in for; this week I knew exactly how hard I was going to find even the warm-up.

Surprisingly, the warm-up was a little easier even though my flexibility was still very poor. I managed all of the running without having to stop and the only thing I had to miss out where front toe taps. Even my splits had improved despite it taking until Thursday for my legs to stop aching from last week’s efforts.

The line work was also a little easier. My body seemed to remember more of the moves more easily and I felt straighter and more in control of my body. I even managed to bunny hop to handstand with straight legs which I hadn’t managed last week. In short, an improvement.

We then moved onto learning the component parts of a round-off backflick. This is a move I first learnt to do circa 1994 when I was 12. It is a very long time since I was asked to do parts of it but not all. We also learnt on a non-sprung floor. My group in this new class is learning them ’from scratch’; something which is both infinitely frustrating and technically helpful as we are now on a sprung floor which brings with it a slightly different action.