no aerial silks tonight
Jan. 15th, 2016 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaTonight was the first scheduled practice for Phire at the school gym since the holidays. Our fearless leader was going to be out of town, so I went by her place this afternoon and picked up the bag of aerial silks stuff. However, when I arrived at the gym, about five minutes after we were meant to start there was a small group of us outside, wondering if I had the key. We checked the bag, but no key. We exchanged messages with a few people, found out who had the key, and the fact that he was in an exam just then and so not reachable, and decided that even though it has warmed up noticeably, -10 C is still too cold to be just standing around outside of a locked building.
So we went over to building F of the Uni (the one closest to the school, and where my office is, and checked the large space in the basement, but found out that it was reserved for a group who would be arriving soon. So then we decided to head to the other end of campus and see if the large Drama room we have for Tuesday's practice happened to be empty, since my key opens that door. It was empty, so we happily practiced there instead. However, that room doesn't have any place we can attach the aerial silks, and so we had to content ourselves with playing with juggling toys, staffs, and doing acrobatics. One of the girls had classes in acrobatics when in highschool, so she is happily giving us pointers.
It took only three tries for me and one of the other girls to find the balance point for me to stand on her thighs whilst our hands are clasped over one another's forearms, and I got to ride on a few sets of shoulders etc. I also worked on trying to find the balance point to let go of the wall when doing a handstand, but I am not quite there yet.
It may be a good thing that we didn't have the silks available today, since about 45 minutes before practice I managed to bang up the knuckles on my left hand a bit. I had been washing some metal shelves to be used for the shelves we are building onto the wall in the boiler room, and was nearly done--only three left to go. I went to pick up the next one, and somehow it got caught with its neighbour at the base, and so didn't come up when I lifted, which somehow set me off balance, and I tripped forward, getting my knuckles slightly mashed between the two shelves as the impact stopped my forward motion. Luckily, the knuckles lost a bit of skin in the process, so instead of bruising and swelling I just bled a bit, but they are feeling a bit sore and stiff now. I suspect that had I played on the silks they would be even more unhappy. Luckily, the damage is minor, so with luck they will be fine next week, when we should actually have the key to the gym.
So we went over to building F of the Uni (the one closest to the school, and where my office is, and checked the large space in the basement, but found out that it was reserved for a group who would be arriving soon. So then we decided to head to the other end of campus and see if the large Drama room we have for Tuesday's practice happened to be empty, since my key opens that door. It was empty, so we happily practiced there instead. However, that room doesn't have any place we can attach the aerial silks, and so we had to content ourselves with playing with juggling toys, staffs, and doing acrobatics. One of the girls had classes in acrobatics when in highschool, so she is happily giving us pointers.
It took only three tries for me and one of the other girls to find the balance point for me to stand on her thighs whilst our hands are clasped over one another's forearms, and I got to ride on a few sets of shoulders etc. I also worked on trying to find the balance point to let go of the wall when doing a handstand, but I am not quite there yet.
It may be a good thing that we didn't have the silks available today, since about 45 minutes before practice I managed to bang up the knuckles on my left hand a bit. I had been washing some metal shelves to be used for the shelves we are building onto the wall in the boiler room, and was nearly done--only three left to go. I went to pick up the next one, and somehow it got caught with its neighbour at the base, and so didn't come up when I lifted, which somehow set me off balance, and I tripped forward, getting my knuckles slightly mashed between the two shelves as the impact stopped my forward motion. Luckily, the knuckles lost a bit of skin in the process, so instead of bruising and swelling I just bled a bit, but they are feeling a bit sore and stiff now. I suspect that had I played on the silks they would be even more unhappy. Luckily, the damage is minor, so with luck they will be fine next week, when we should actually have the key to the gym.