Oh yaaay you got into an aerial school! It sounds like your stay is going great down south. Things are going well here at the Nuthouse. I finally decided to create another lj. I checked out Xanga and it's turned into a weird blog/facebook mutant monster, so I made another one of these thingies. Yay writing!
Super yay :D It keeps me sane! I know you get what it's like to have something like that in your life and how freakishly necessary it is.
Aw, I'm glad you're back on lj. I was just thinking about you the other day, and I went to hit you up on facebook before I forgot you killed it. I miss youuuu.
I was thinking about what you said about Control/Momentum at practice tonight. I can barely imagine a slow-motion bent-arms hip key. It's going to be so amazing when you have those skills.
I am also approaching a real straddle climb!! I'm finally able to invert without tagging the rope, and soon-eventually I'll be able to do it from a nice straddle rather than the desperate haul I do now. I've been training for just about two years, too. We must fit a similar profile.
I actually think my hip key has gotten sloppier since I figured out how to swing into it like a pendulum this fall. Before I really was trying to do it with bent arms and now I just swing and wriggle. I should get stricter with myself about that. I am proud of the fact that my "butterfly climb," which is just hip key after hip key up the rope, has gotten slowly more heft to it (when i started this rope class I just stayed in one place no matter how long I tried) though.
Control/Momentum is something I've thought about a lot since starting this class. My last aerial coach (who I loved to death, as a teacher/performer/person), was a proponent of using your strengths to compensate for your weaknesses, and taught me a lot of little tricks to make moves easier on myself when I straight up didn't have the muscle for it. One of the one-off classes I took emphasized the exact same thing. So it feels very different to have a teacher who stresses control- she doesn't teach beats at all, for example, and the other coach always looks a little alarmed when I drop from sitting on the bar straight into a basket hang
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head as counterweight-- great point. I've never thought about it that way but I am going to start trying.
Butterfly climb is good for thinking about isolating that side-lift lat-heavy pulling motion. My classmate who is really strong does this beautiful motion in which his hips just levitate 90 degrees to the side. He says he thinks about pulling the rope down, not pushing his body up.
Dude, Brazilians are HELLA friendly. Everyone here is just more genial, nice, outgoing ect- and it helps a lot, especially because folks are always complimenting my language skills. The frustration for me comes from not being able to really speak eloquently and be social in that way- otherwise, folks are amazing and helpful with everything
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Aw, I'm glad you're back on lj. I was just thinking about you the other day, and I went to hit you up on facebook before I forgot you killed it. I miss youuuu.
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I am also approaching a real straddle climb!! I'm finally able to invert without tagging the rope, and soon-eventually I'll be able to do it from a nice straddle rather than the desperate haul I do now. I've been training for just about two years, too. We must fit a similar profile.
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Butterfly climb is good for thinking about isolating that side-lift lat-heavy pulling motion. My classmate who is really strong does this beautiful motion in which his hips just levitate 90 degrees to the side. He says he thinks about pulling the rope down, not pushing his body up.
What is a basket hang?
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