aerial silk epiphany

[frobzwiththingz]

Last night i was playing with the wooden artist posing doll, and some thin climbing rope (yeah. go ahead. put your mind in gutter mode...) trying to reverse engineer the wrap that sets up the triple-rotation series of drops, how it differs from the wrap that sets up the double rotation series, and what the actual setup sequence would be. It took a while, but suddenly the *aha* moment came, and i now really *understand* the topology behind all of the multiple rotation drops.

I now know *why* the double does what it does, how to set up the triple, what will go wrong if you forget certain wraps/add extra wraps, and what the general principle behind setting up an N-rotation drop is. And how the ramone/windmill wrap setup we were taught is completely isomorphic to this general N-rotation setup formula, if you set N to zero.

Pock! While it's unlikely that i'll ever get to play on a silk rig that is 40' high, i know that if i ever do, i'll be able to set up a 6 or 7 rotation drop on it, without anyone showing me how, and i know it will work correctly. This is neat!

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

you could write it up with photographs, animations, dorky models, all the tricks, in order... and SELL it. woo.

start your own silks biz, sells rigs, and all that goodness :)

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