YAAW (yet another aerials weekend)
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frobzwiththingzThis past weekend was another weekend of aerials classes. Total class count this time was 5; 3 on silk, one each on sling and trap. I'm really happy to have made it through this time around, Thursday afternoon i was having serious doubts about being able to take any of the classes at all; my left hamstrings were *not* happy. [see _A_Maze_Of_Death_ for details]
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klingonlandlady and R were also in all of the classes i took; we were joined by tcb on sling and ectophylla and infinitehotel on trapeze. We also ran into elvendoll in between classes. Several other folk we know goat, elvendoll, ectropy, among others were taking other classes but did not overlap with ours. It's great to see so many folk getting interested in this; im looking forward to being able to announce "silk, BBQ, and hot tub" gatherings later on in the year when the weather is nice and we can put up the backyard rig again.
Now i'll try to remember what we did. After enough classes in a weekend, it all starts to blend together, and it's hard to recall exactly what happened when.
Friday, silk:
Toccata and fugue in the Opposite Side Wrap to Front Dive sequence. i've got a dance belt now, and wearing it makes a *huge* difference in being able to set up this sequence. Without it, lowering into the "buttfloss position" can be rather, um, painful, as certain objects will sometimes be right down where the fabric wants to compress. Ouch. This sequence can be done with only one leg wrap, rather than the two we have been doing, and this leaves you in an easier place to link into other moves.
Drill on climb/descent/layout on non-dominant side. repeat until burnt out.
Saturday morning, silk:
Debbie Park style opposite side climb. This one is, well, hard. We've been trying it off and on without too much success, but after getting more hints from Cypher it is starting to make sense. It's a climb that alternates sides as you ascend. It takes far more upper body strength than the regular climb. The "pinch the fabric with the back of the knee and drive down" part was a bit uncomfortable on the left leg, where i overstretched my hamstrings last wednesday.
More reps on the setup for the Ramone and windmill descent. Then a bunch of moves based on the wrist-lock hold, "angel in the ropes", and yet more unsuccessful attempts to do a position called a "planch". Do repeated reps of a skin-the-cat type excercize until lats are burnt.
Saturday afternoon, Sling:
More reps on the mount, gazelle, single forward dive. Then on to the 1.5 dive, which starts from the single forward dive "buttfloss" position, throw a hip-key like move on top of that. which leaves you suspended in an inverted "V" about the waist. You then windmill one of your legs over, which nbalances the V and causes you to roll sideways .5 rotations followed by a rapid forward dive. After a couple of reps self-spotting with one hand to the forward dive part, i tried it in the final form, which doesnt use the spot and ends up being rather fast. Wheee! Then on to a side-layout-drop-to-single-knee-hang-cross-and-drop-to-foot-hang progression, which i could do on the right leg but the left said *N*F*W*. I think there was more but can't remember right now.
Sunday morning, Silk:
1.5 single side drop. set up the standard same-side crochet, then climb up to the buttfloss position as in the opposite side wrap. this leads to a full rotation forward dive with a half side rotation afterward that leaves you hanging from two wraps around your opposite leg. Cypher was a bit concerned about me trying it as it gives a lot of compression on the leg you end up supported by. As it was, though, trying to do it on the opposite side would have been worse, as the initial leg crochet to set up the move was *not* going to happen on the left leg. I tried just the standard single-side drop onto the left leg, and it was pretty much OK, so i decided to go for the whole deal. Ended up doing 3 or 4 reps of the 1.5, leg dealt OK. I'm apparently piking at the end rather than being straight out, and will have to work on this. It's a very fast and dynamic drop, and quite exhilarating! eventually i'll be able to track what is happening, rather than suddenly saying "Hmm. now i'm *here*. how did *that* happen?",
assymetric-foot-wrap-tango-hand-crucifix-swing-the-leg-up-hook-the-foot-back-balance. Can't really describe it much better. Yet another move that i could only do on one side, as the left hamstring wasnt going to deal with the side pressure of the "hook-the-foot" part. I don't like this injury thing.
Sunday afternoon, Trapeze.
I was most worried about this one, as i thought most of the moves would stress the left hamstring too much. I executed one of my "drop-to-angel" sequences too fast during the last trap class, and popped right off. it wasnt a problem then, theres a perfectly good crash mat down there and the trapeze is only about 7 feet up. but if i popped off and landed on the bad leg this time, i'd really feel it.
We worked through a mount, pike, knee-hang-beat, rocknroll, gazelle, drop-to-angel reverse-leg-angel, candlestick, tick-tock-leg-drop-to-ankle-hang, beat, straddle-turn, single-knee-hang-gazelle, dismount sequence. Leg was actually OK for most of it, though i needed a variation on the candlestick that didnt require the back of the knee, using two foot-hooks instead if the left leg was the one that wanted to be horizontal.
infinitehotel was taking trap for the first time, and was being instructed in a different group from us. He did rather impressively, getting much farther along than we did in our first class. I think he managed to work all the way up to the "drop to angel" section. Nice work, J!
Afterwards, back to R's for a shower, then to Hana for sushi. Then home to sleep.
klingonlandlady and R were also in all of the classes i took; we were joined by tcb on sling and ectophylla and infinitehotel on trapeze. We also ran into elvendoll in between classes. Several other folk we know goat, elvendoll, ectropy, among others were taking other classes but did not overlap with ours. It's great to see so many folk getting interested in this; im looking forward to being able to announce "silk, BBQ, and hot tub" gatherings later on in the year when the weather is nice and we can put up the backyard rig again.Now i'll try to remember what we did. After enough classes in a weekend, it all starts to blend together, and it's hard to recall exactly what happened when.
Friday, silk:
Toccata and fugue in the Opposite Side Wrap to Front Dive sequence. i've got a dance belt now, and wearing it makes a *huge* difference in being able to set up this sequence. Without it, lowering into the "buttfloss position" can be rather, um, painful, as certain objects will sometimes be right down where the fabric wants to compress. Ouch. This sequence can be done with only one leg wrap, rather than the two we have been doing, and this leaves you in an easier place to link into other moves.
Drill on climb/descent/layout on non-dominant side. repeat until burnt out.
Saturday morning, silk:
Debbie Park style opposite side climb. This one is, well, hard. We've been trying it off and on without too much success, but after getting more hints from Cypher it is starting to make sense. It's a climb that alternates sides as you ascend. It takes far more upper body strength than the regular climb. The "pinch the fabric with the back of the knee and drive down" part was a bit uncomfortable on the left leg, where i overstretched my hamstrings last wednesday.
More reps on the setup for the Ramone and windmill descent. Then a bunch of moves based on the wrist-lock hold, "angel in the ropes", and yet more unsuccessful attempts to do a position called a "planch". Do repeated reps of a skin-the-cat type excercize until lats are burnt.
Saturday afternoon, Sling:
More reps on the mount, gazelle, single forward dive. Then on to the 1.5 dive, which starts from the single forward dive "buttfloss" position, throw a hip-key like move on top of that. which leaves you suspended in an inverted "V" about the waist. You then windmill one of your legs over, which nbalances the V and causes you to roll sideways .5 rotations followed by a rapid forward dive. After a couple of reps self-spotting with one hand to the forward dive part, i tried it in the final form, which doesnt use the spot and ends up being rather fast. Wheee! Then on to a side-layout-drop-to-single-knee-hang-cross-and-drop-to-foot-hang progression, which i could do on the right leg but the left said *N*F*W*. I think there was more but can't remember right now.
Sunday morning, Silk:
1.5 single side drop. set up the standard same-side crochet, then climb up to the buttfloss position as in the opposite side wrap. this leads to a full rotation forward dive with a half side rotation afterward that leaves you hanging from two wraps around your opposite leg. Cypher was a bit concerned about me trying it as it gives a lot of compression on the leg you end up supported by. As it was, though, trying to do it on the opposite side would have been worse, as the initial leg crochet to set up the move was *not* going to happen on the left leg. I tried just the standard single-side drop onto the left leg, and it was pretty much OK, so i decided to go for the whole deal. Ended up doing 3 or 4 reps of the 1.5, leg dealt OK. I'm apparently piking at the end rather than being straight out, and will have to work on this. It's a very fast and dynamic drop, and quite exhilarating! eventually i'll be able to track what is happening, rather than suddenly saying "Hmm. now i'm *here*. how did *that* happen?",
assymetric-foot-wrap-tango-hand-crucifix-swing-the-leg-up-hook-the-foot-back-balance. Can't really describe it much better. Yet another move that i could only do on one side, as the left hamstring wasnt going to deal with the side pressure of the "hook-the-foot" part. I don't like this injury thing.
Sunday afternoon, Trapeze.
I was most worried about this one, as i thought most of the moves would stress the left hamstring too much. I executed one of my "drop-to-angel" sequences too fast during the last trap class, and popped right off. it wasnt a problem then, theres a perfectly good crash mat down there and the trapeze is only about 7 feet up. but if i popped off and landed on the bad leg this time, i'd really feel it.
We worked through a mount, pike, knee-hang-beat, rocknroll, gazelle, drop-to-angel reverse-leg-angel, candlestick, tick-tock-leg-drop-to-ankle-hang, beat, straddle-turn, single-knee-hang-gazelle, dismount sequence. Leg was actually OK for most of it, though i needed a variation on the candlestick that didnt require the back of the knee, using two foot-hooks instead if the left leg was the one that wanted to be horizontal.
infinitehotel was taking trap for the first time, and was being instructed in a different group from us. He did rather impressively, getting much farther along than we did in our first class. I think he managed to work all the way up to the "drop to angel" section. Nice work, J!Afterwards, back to R's for a shower, then to Hana for sushi. Then home to sleep.
