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Acroyoga!
Now that it has been a couple of weeks since Johan got his second vaccination (mine was a couple of weeks ago) we have decided to start practicing acroyoga again. Today was our first day back at it, and I am please to report that it went well. Spending the pandemic training with the DownDog HIT and Yoga apps over zoom was enough to keep strength and flexibility where it needs to be to accomplish all of the acroyoga we tried today. Granted, I have been practicing Acroyoga with Kheldor since April, so no surprise that my strength and flexibility is there. Johan's legs shook a bit more than they used to when he was basing, but never enough to cause a problem. In fact there were a couple of times when I thought we were going to fall, and we managed to save it.
Much to my delight, he is still flexible enough to transition from holding me in Bird in Hands to the normal Bird (on foot), and back again. I was able to hold him in Bird in Hands for only a couple of seconds. I can hold Kheldor longer, but I think that Kheldor isn't quite as heavy as Johan. We tried the new roll over from the floor into Bird in Hands thing that Kheldor and I learned from an Acroyoga video, and it worked quite ok. Will need work to get it smooth and fluid, of course.
Yesterday I took Kheldor with me to the first Folk Dance session since we quit dancing due to the pandemic. This was basically throwing him in the deep end, since he's done no Swedish folk dance (and not much dance outside of the SCA at all) since the obligatory, brief, folk dance lessons he had in school, and our group is an advanced group. However, Eva was kind and started us with some very basics, and he survived (and I suspect even enjoyed some of it). During break we did five minutes of acroyoga, which I would have enjoyed no matter what, but also appreciated because it seemed to help to practice something that he already knows how to do. It also helped that the very last dance step she gave us is a weird hop, step, turn thing that is basically the exact same foot movements that he uses when doing a full spin sword-blow, so that one he caught on to faster than some of the rest of us did.
Much to my delight, he is still flexible enough to transition from holding me in Bird in Hands to the normal Bird (on foot), and back again. I was able to hold him in Bird in Hands for only a couple of seconds. I can hold Kheldor longer, but I think that Kheldor isn't quite as heavy as Johan. We tried the new roll over from the floor into Bird in Hands thing that Kheldor and I learned from an Acroyoga video, and it worked quite ok. Will need work to get it smooth and fluid, of course.
Yesterday I took Kheldor with me to the first Folk Dance session since we quit dancing due to the pandemic. This was basically throwing him in the deep end, since he's done no Swedish folk dance (and not much dance outside of the SCA at all) since the obligatory, brief, folk dance lessons he had in school, and our group is an advanced group. However, Eva was kind and started us with some very basics, and he survived (and I suspect even enjoyed some of it). During break we did five minutes of acroyoga, which I would have enjoyed no matter what, but also appreciated because it seemed to help to practice something that he already knows how to do. It also helped that the very last dance step she gave us is a weird hop, step, turn thing that is basically the exact same foot movements that he uses when doing a full spin sword-blow, so that one he caught on to faster than some of the rest of us did.
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