{"id":956,"date":"2025-12-07T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:00:18","slug":"milestone-200000-left-hand-strokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/milestone-200000-left-hand-strokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone:  200,000 Left Hand Strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My left hand strokes are starting to feel good! I have a sense of control, and it&#8217;s a feeling I never knew I didn&#8217;t have. It&#8217;s like getting a new ability in your body. It&#8217;s weird.  Other notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I can do this for long stretches<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I can make the stick &#8220;snap&#8221; into the pad with significant force<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The stick wants to slide towards me and I&#8217;m now able to make adjustments to my hand during the stroke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is a feeling of agility.  I&#8217;m holding the stick lightly, but have much more control over.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s also a feeling of &#8220;Wow, I got this&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I think my focused efforts are paying off.  It&#8217;s as though spending time practicing something really does work.  Heh.  I think we&#8217;re all told that but don&#8217;t often do it or experience it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here&#8217;s my current progress video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LeftHandProgress200kStrokes.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>200, 000 strokes puts me at 20% of the way to 1 million. That&#8217;s quite a milestone. At my current rate, I will hit that in a few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the first video I ever recorded of my left hand. This is one week after I <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/focused-practice\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/focused-practice\/\">started focusing on my left hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FirstHIntsOfFingerTechnique.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My left hand strokes are starting to feel good! I have a sense of control, and it&#8217;s a feeling I never knew I didn&#8217;t have. It&#8217;s like getting a new ability in your body. It&#8217;s weird. Other notes: I think my focused efforts are paying off. It&#8217;s as though spending time practicing something really does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drumming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}