Reflective Essay: If I Had To Get Over The Summer

Over the Summer I personally thought that it was going to be hard to improve on something. But honestly if you try hard enough, it’s actually quite easy. My summer goal was to have both my left split and straddle by the time school started. It seemed like a fairly easy goal to keep up with. I accomplished part of my goal over the summer. If I had slightly more time I would’ve had gotten both parts. But what I had gone through with was being able to execute my left split. Even though it’s only half of my goal I’m still happy with it since I’m really close to having my straddle too. The reason that I wasn’t able to accomplish all of it was, I believe, because I wasn’t stretching as often as I should have. If I would’ve done that then I would be much more flexible than I am now. But that just shows me how much harder I need to and will work over the school year and next summer. Therefore, I had accomplished my left split and almost my straddle. Having the ability to do both splits and straddle with ease is important to my overall success as a dancer. This is because if I’m able to do those things will open the doors to new movement. It will allow me to do things I was restricted to in the past. An example would be if I was thinking of choreography to do and I wouldn’t have to say to …show more content…
One of them being the fact that I would like a more flexible back. It might take a while though because unlike some people, by back isn’t very flexible. I would achieve this by doing exercises that help loosen my back. An example would be the cobra stretch/pose. Another goal of mine would be to remember choreography better. I have the bad habit of not going over choreography until the next rehearsal which is very bad. Whether I practice it at home or watch a video of it, I need to get into the habit of practicing my dances at home rather than waiting until the next