Corde Lisse

When it comes to drops I am the biggest wimp going. I think this is in part down to me being a control freak. OK, so you control the wrap, and some drops can have a degree of control to them but really once you’re dropping that’s it, what happens, happens and there is nothing you can do until it’s finished.

So, after the warm up and climbs last nights Corde lisse class focused entirely on drops.

I can’t remember the name of the first one. It started from Catchers and then involved some wrapping into a figure 8 type wrap. It made perfect sense when I was on the ground watching it but once up in the air dangling upside down I really struggled to get my head around it. The person I was sharing the rope with struggled with it as well so it wasn’t just me. The rest of the group had varying degrees of success with it.

The second drop was Owens Drop. I’ve done Owens Drop before and got on OK with it. Once you’re doing it it’s really not scary or painful. It starts in Key of Stomach which then wraps into a kind of double catchers. You then do two little drops which finishes in catchers. I managed to do the wrap with no problems but I was too low down to do the actual drop. I ended up not doing it which I am now annoyed at myself for.

I managed to get in a bit of practice going over twizzle into catchers which a previous instructor had shown us. It had been at least two months since I last attempted it so it wasn’t working very well. I had previously got it nicely from the floor and could just about manage up the rope so it was annoying that I could barely even manage it from the floor. I’ll make sure I practice it a couple of times each lesson and it will come back properly though.

I feel that I need to put more effort in next time!