This is a post by Jorg Jansen.
I just finished a set of dry statics. Yes, you’ve read it right! Jorg did statics. It is amazing I know.
The weather was good and I wanted to write something for our website and thought; what the hell, I do some statics on bed. To be honest, I didn’t expect anything from it. With almost 30 degrees outside it is way to hot to do something like this.
All in all, it felt pretty okay. I lay myself down on bed and did a 2 minute breathing cycle. Very simple, just 10 seconds in and 10 seconds out. Immediately when I started I tried to relax myself. I told myself I would hold until 1 contraction and stop, so that I would be motivated enough for the next one. So after one contraction I looked at the watch and it said 2:17 and I was shocked. I really thought I was just passing 1:30 min. And it felt so easy.
Jessica Harms Painting
Time for another one! Again 2 minutes of breathing and go. Of course expectations were high if the first one felt so good, but I couldn’t relax anymore. I was already thinking about my maximum dry static of 3:35 from 2003, which was around 1 minute less then my best wet static. I even hated dry statics more then wet in that time. At the first contractions I stopped again and it was a time of 2:27.
Okay, one more to get over 2:30, otherwise I would be disappointed. And after 2 minutes of breathing and hold my breath again. This time I couldn’t resist watching a the stopwatch when I was thinking how far I was. 1:47 minutes was less then I expected, but then again it was only 43 seconds before 2:30. The problem is when I thinking like this it always goes wrong. So I had 3 whole contractions before reaching 2:30. 3 contractions is a lot for me! ;)
That was enough for today. Recovering from my final breath hold I felt pretty good doing it again. So soon I couldn’t resist myself and do 1 more. Everything felt great during this one, but I said to myself I should stop at 2:40 and not push it for the first time. I still want to do this more! So at 2:40 a small breath and everything was okay again.
The wonderful thing: I want to do it again! But not today…
