Irina says, when I tell her about Kelsh: "Good. Now the work can be just the work."
I think about this on Friday morning at the training ground, working the sequence Drace has been developing with me through the autumn, which is more demanding now than when it started because Drace believes in thresholds. He finds the edge of what you can do and he moves the edge incrementally so that you are always working toward a new position without ever feeling the work is impossible. The work is always just barely possible. That is his specific genius.
This morning Théo is beside me working his own sequence.
We work in parallel without speaking, which is the training ground grammar Drace established early that conversation during a sequence breaks the attention, and since both Théo and I consider
