So MUCH fun!
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kareinaI joined Phire today for their practice session. While most of the people present were doing stuff with juggling, and practice with swinging around sticks (which, during a performance or outdoor practice session would be burning), some of us played with the aerial silks. I have thought they looked fun since first I saw them, but never had an opportunity to try before tonight.
First she taught me two different ways to hold the fabric with one's feet, one of which she finds easier than the other. I tried them both, they are both hard, but the one she thinks is easier was, in fact, easier, once I got the coordination together to do it at all. Much to my delight, after only a handful of attempts I got the trick of it, and succeeded in climbing all the way to the top, and got back down again safely. This took much more effort than climbing the same distance on a rock wall, which I suppose shouldn't be surprising, since one has to hold on with only one's arms in order to wrap the fabric back around the foot in order to be able to stand up higher to make any progress. (One of the boys demonstrated climbing up with arms only. I am so not ready to do that yet, my arms simply don't have the power in them, yet.
After that she showed me many other things one can do, several of which involve being upside down or horizontal. I actually remembered to get out my camera, once, so there is evidence:
Sadly, this was the last meeting in the gym for the semester, so I need to wait till January to try it again. Other than holidays they meet two times a week, once at the Uni, and once in a school gym near the uni, and I expect that I will be joining them often. On Tuesdays I will have to talk them into doing silly people tricks with me, since there will be no aerials.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aelfgyfu, how did we do that trick where you were laying on your back and I did a shoulder stand in your hands. I can't remember how it worked... Do you have any good suggestions of other fun things to try? Or what this sort of thing is called so I could ask google for ideas?
It will be interesting to see how much I improve on the silks over the next year, since my birthday present to myself was a year with a personal trainer...
First she taught me two different ways to hold the fabric with one's feet, one of which she finds easier than the other. I tried them both, they are both hard, but the one she thinks is easier was, in fact, easier, once I got the coordination together to do it at all. Much to my delight, after only a handful of attempts I got the trick of it, and succeeded in climbing all the way to the top, and got back down again safely. This took much more effort than climbing the same distance on a rock wall, which I suppose shouldn't be surprising, since one has to hold on with only one's arms in order to wrap the fabric back around the foot in order to be able to stand up higher to make any progress. (One of the boys demonstrated climbing up with arms only. I am so not ready to do that yet, my arms simply don't have the power in them, yet.
After that she showed me many other things one can do, several of which involve being upside down or horizontal. I actually remembered to get out my camera, once, so there is evidence:
Sadly, this was the last meeting in the gym for the semester, so I need to wait till January to try it again. Other than holidays they meet two times a week, once at the Uni, and once in a school gym near the uni, and I expect that I will be joining them often. On Tuesdays I will have to talk them into doing silly people tricks with me, since there will be no aerials.
aelfgyfu, how did we do that trick where you were laying on your back and I did a shoulder stand in your hands. I can't remember how it worked... Do you have any good suggestions of other fun things to try? Or what this sort of thing is called so I could ask google for ideas?It will be interesting to see how much I improve on the silks over the next year, since my birthday present to myself was a year with a personal trainer...
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