Believe In Better

Yesterday after an early morning yoga session I hit the wall. When I was going well early this year I considered myself light and flexible, times have changed - yesterday I was about as light and flexible as a six foot log. I spent so much time last year working on my weaknesses, my finger strength and my flexibility. My felxibility seems to have completely dissapeared. Coupled with the fact I have lost all my 'flow', the going has been exceptionally hard.

I worked through some problems yesterday, slowly but surely moves got done and things got ticked. They were by no means hard and I was a long way off where I have been, but I needed to see some progress. The belief that the strength will return is what I'm surviving on at the moment.

After all, I've learnt in the past that in bouldering half the battle is believing.

Here's a good little vid from my friends over at Louderthan11 which shows why you need to believe, 3 years he took to do this problem, 3 years...

ROSES AND BLUE JAYS: the Final Chapter from Louder Than 11 on Vimeo.