... I be Rollin'... I be Spottin'... Rollin' tryin'ta catch me rollin' dirty...

Tryin'ta catch me combat rollin'. Tryin'ta catch me combat rollin'.

After warming up (which was a lot easier, btw), we reviewed our front falls (front and back), and back falls (left and right) for a little, which I actually remembered, and I was pretty happy. We then moved onto the mats and practiced rolling, which is about the craziest thing in the world. And crazy cool at the same time. We started out in a genuflecting position and rolling slowly, but it's pretty hard to do it without the momentum of going into it, so it was pretty difficult at first, but as we went through the lines and brought us up to speed the falls progressed into what looked to actually be falls.

Then we started from a standing position, which was FREAKING scary. I've always had a fear of falling, a fear of combat, a fear of just about everything when it comes to combat, and this slow entrance into it is making me feel better. But the standing roll was nuts. It took a bit of watching Rachel at first to get it, but it did eventually get engrained into my body. Which is hard. Getting things into my muscle memory is probably harder than pinching coal to get a diamond. It takes me FOREVER. Consequently, it's the same with dancing, and choreography takes a little while to become engrained into my muscles.

But I felt really good about myself when I was practicing the falls, and everything slowly got into me. I need a LOOT more practice on it though, which is why I'm going tonight after practice to work on my falls in the studio all on my lonesome. I might bring someone just in case, but I should be fine. I'm looking forward to being able to just randomly be standing somewhere be pushed and fall into a fall like that and get back up and turn around and say, "WHAT BETCH?"

So, Rolling, in short was a blast.

Tryin'ta catch me combat rollin'. Tryin'ta catch me combat rollin'.