07-03-2017, 01:55 AM
Pineapple juice for those sore shins.
Several decades ago, I was with a team that did a dance for the opera Lucia diLammermoor, an Italian opera set in Scotland. There is a wedding scene and we had a 90 second dance before the bride comes out and in a LONG aria tells the guests that she just killed the groom.
We worked REALLY hard on that 90 second dance which had the four men dancing some Highland steps followed by a reel with four ladies. We practiced so hard leading up to the first performance that I got nasty shin splints. Buddy told me to drink pineapple juice, so I did. A little would have been good, but of course in the course of an evening I drank the whole quart. Shin splints were gone the next morning! Not a sign of them.
Of course all that acid did a job on my tongue so standing back during the aria I had to be sure I was not slobbering from my damaged tongue.
Several decades ago, I was with a team that did a dance for the opera Lucia diLammermoor, an Italian opera set in Scotland. There is a wedding scene and we had a 90 second dance before the bride comes out and in a LONG aria tells the guests that she just killed the groom.
We worked REALLY hard on that 90 second dance which had the four men dancing some Highland steps followed by a reel with four ladies. We practiced so hard leading up to the first performance that I got nasty shin splints. Buddy told me to drink pineapple juice, so I did. A little would have been good, but of course in the course of an evening I drank the whole quart. Shin splints were gone the next morning! Not a sign of them.
Of course all that acid did a job on my tongue so standing back during the aria I had to be sure I was not slobbering from my damaged tongue.