Uh oh, I may have misnamed this thing. What is the diff... nevermind, got it.. Yes, it was "flying". We were using only one; nobody transferred over to a catcher.
My company had an obligatory long meeting offsite in a historic (read: unheated) building, and as a reward, after the meeting we all went to San Francisco's circus school and learned a few very basic things. I can now spin plates at the top of sticks, do a somersault through a hoop a coupla feet off the ground, and do a back-flip dismount off a trapeze. I skipped the tight wire due to foot damage.
Them things is scary. I think the worst parts are climbing the ladder and leaning out to catch the bar. Yiiiiii. But once you're moving, WOW. It's wonderful. More grip strength would be good, but for the short bits we were doing, complete newbies were fine.
So! You do static trapeze? Like, you can actually do nifty graceful things on a bar hanging from ropes? That sounds MUCH harder!
Whoa. It took you less than a day to learn all those neat tricks??
It just scares me. I think it's bc I'm scared of landing on my head, which I'm sure is irrational.
I can hang from the trapeze, beat back and forth, get my knees on it, get my butt on it in a way that ought to be graceful someday, and last week I learned how to do a layback :)
Hm, reading the descriptions, I think part of it is that I've never seen the safety setup of flying trapeze; in static trapeze, there are no harnesses. I'm the sort of person who rarely gets things on the first try, so...
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My company had an obligatory long meeting offsite in a historic (read: unheated) building, and as a reward, after the meeting we all went to San Francisco's circus school and learned a few very basic things. I can now spin plates at the top of sticks, do a somersault through a hoop a coupla feet off the ground, and do a back-flip dismount off a trapeze. I skipped the tight wire due to foot damage.
Them things is scary. I think the worst parts are climbing the ladder and leaning out to catch the bar. Yiiiiii. But once you're moving, WOW. It's wonderful. More grip strength would be good, but for the short bits we were doing, complete newbies were fine.
So! You do static trapeze? Like, you can actually do nifty graceful things on a bar hanging from ropes? That sounds MUCH harder!
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It just scares me. I think it's bc I'm scared of landing on my head, which I'm sure is irrational.
I can hang from the trapeze, beat back and forth, get my knees on it, get my butt on it in a way that ought to be graceful someday, and last week I learned how to do a layback :)
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