I took Sachil ice-skating today.  It was his first time ever and my first time in about 25 years.  It was remarkable how quickly he picked it up.  At first, I thought our outing would be five minutes max:  he could not even stand up on his skates and was crying tears of frustration.  However, within 20 minutes or so, he was flying around the rink in complete control.  In fact, after the first five minutes, he insisted that I not even hold his hand - he wanted to go it alone!  He really loved it too, so I think that this might be an activity of choice for the rest of the winter.

Changing the subject to my videos, the next two videos that will be coming out on the site are going to be somewhat different.  As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I played very poorly in my first couple sessions of the year.  I think that it was a combination of dealing with the emotional shock to my system of actually (finally) physically separating from my wife (and being away from Sachil for half the time) - and just being rusty by simply not having played for several weeks while on vacation in Albuquerque.  So I ended up making a two part video series of myself playing poorly.  I'm not sure if you guys will like the videos:  for one thing, it was my first time doing a live video (as opposed to adding the commentary later as I usually do).  Because of that, I jump around in my thought process between tables, and I hope that I am coherent enough.  The other  thing is that the video was made when I was playing at least a little bit badly.  I was forcing the action, playing too aggressively, and overdoing the levelling thing.  Since then, I have gotten my bearings and have been playing well.  However, I was not able to quite decipher what I was doing wrong while recording that session.  As a result, I think it will make for an interesting video in the sense that you guys will get to see what happens when a usually big winning player's game goes awry.  That might help you guys detect similarities if and when you find your own games slipping and be able to nip it in the bud faster and more accurately.  Anyway, as I said, I've got myself sorted out since recording the videos and have been playing well.  But I hope that the videos will be beneficial to you guys anyway.

Regarding my post about heads up videos, I want to say again that I realize that I can't please everyone.  There is enough interest in my heads up series that I am going to play at least a couple of matches and resume the series.  However, for those of you that prefer my 6-max videos, don't worry:  I am going to continue to make plenty of those as well.