#solo;secondvlive

"hi! it’s dohyun here, and this is my vlive documenting my journey learning tricking! so, i’ve got absolutely zero experience in gymnastics type ... things, so this is going to be a steep learning curve, and probably be very entertaining to watch. i’m expecting a lot of bruises, but, fingers crossed no broken bones!” dohyun speaks to the camera as he kneels on the floor in a room with a padded floor and thick matts leant against the wall. 

he’d decided to learn tricking as his ‘new year new experiences’ activity, as he’d seen a lot of idols put tricking flips into their performances, and wanted to be able to do it too, so he’d maybe get to do it on stage in the future. though the whole idea of flips was daunting to dohyun, he was extremely excited when he’d first decided to learn and found himself a teacher. 

“my first lesson is tomorrow, and i’m going to film bits of it so you can watch me fall on my face!” he says, laughing brightly. then, the video cuts to a shot of dohyun and a person with a blurred face talking as dohyun slowly turns his way through some simple flip footwork, finding the spots his feet need to land and stepping between them slowly, making his way towards picking up some momentum in his steps until there’s a slight jump in his twisting turn movement. 

the video speeds up to show him practising over and over, falling over countless times, until finally it slows to show him landing his first proper flip. as he lands, steady and in the right position he cheers, and his teacher, from off camera, cheers too, clapping for him. then, the video cuts to a shot with dohyun leaning up close to the camera this time, slightly breathless. 

“so, i just showed you clips from my last few lessons, up till today where i finally landed that flip i was learning! impressive, right?” he chuckles, pushing his hair back off his forehead and putting a cap on his head. “next lesson we’s starting a slightly tougher flip, so i’ll show you that too!”

the video continues to play through a montage of sped up clips of dohyun practising flips, then slowing to show him when he finally lands them, before moving onto a more difficult one. as the video nears the end it slows early this time, showing his last few attempts on his most recent trick he’d been learning, until it shows him landing it perfectly in slow motion. 

it cuts to a shot of dohyun sat on the floor in the room with the padded floor, a bruise visible on his knee that’s visible just below the edge of his shorts. “so, that’s the end of the trimester of lessons, and i’ve learnt four tricks! i fell over a lot when i first started, but the more i learnt the less i fell over... though evidently i still fell over sometimes.” he says with a chuckle, glancing down at his bruised knee. 

“hi, i’m park iseul, and i’m going to take you along with me on my journey to learning english!” he says brightly to the camera set up in front of him. “right now, all i know in english is your basic ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ pretty much, maybe some words here and there, but it’s really very negligible. so, i’ll update you every month on my progress, so you can see me get better!”

he shifts where he sits on the carpeted floor of his favourite little individual practise room. when the theme was announced he knew exactly what he wanted to do - learn english. it was something he’d been meaning to do for ages, but had kept putting it off or forgetting. now, he had an excuse to have to do it. 

“i wanted to learn english because hopefully if- when i debut, i’ll have some international fans, and i know that there’s a load of languages out there, but i can’t really learn to speak them all, so since a lot of people speak english, i thought i’d learn it so i can better communicate with more fans in the future!” he laughs softly, slouching a tiny bit as he smiles at the camera, “i really hope it comes in useful!”