Handstand skills class and, ok seriously, what’s up with my wrist?

Went to the handstand class run by Tes the other night and definitely got what I was looking for, which was basically a refinement of form in the handstand and, most importantly to me in this case, in getting into a handstand from a standing position.  I’ve been doing handstand holds almost every day to get comfortable with them, but they’ve been kind of ugly, starting from a crouched position, sometimes taking two or three tries to get up type things.  Learned how far to be from the wall to start the lunge into the position, and to keep active shoulders and the plane from the raised arms down to the kicking-up leg when lunging.  Glad I didn’t try this on my own, as I probably would have put my head through the wall or landed on my neck, or just generally looked ridiculous.

In this process and after my broken-record routine of explaining that my right wrist is still not right after straining it many months ago, we got to talking about the symptoms and such, which is something that Tes knows something about after her husband, aka Mike PCF, “sprained” his wrist a couple of months ago and still was doing some working out using it, and it came to light later after an x-ray that it was actually a fracture and required surgery.  As it happens, also at the class with us was Aura, who is a PT, and she was going over the myriad problems that can be going on in the gunnyworks (my word) of small bones, tendons, and arteries in the wrist.  Also, the point that if this is still a problem after seven months (!), it’s probably worth being looked at by a professional.  I did see a chiropractor in June, which helped some, but x-rays were not done.  This was one of those things that seems so goddamn obvious after someone points it out to you, but that you’ve somehow unconsciously rationalized away for a long period of time, I guess so that you can keep going along with your normal routine and not have to deal with it.  But I am tired of explaining it and scaling around it and having it be an issue, so I’ve made an appointment with an orthopeaeaeaidic (what my first attempt at spelling orthopaedic looked like) specialist for Monday at Commonwealth who specializes in hands/wrists.  Long overdue, I suppose.

So hopefully sometime in the near future, I’ll be a real boy and able to actually put these new handstand skills to use.