Last night's class was great fun as always. In order to make progress on our ambitions, we were encouraged to think about what to work on in order to be able to achieve that goal.
I've decided to look at them one at a time for the moment. First up: skinning the cat to one arm hang. I can sort of do this already, in a messy scary did-you-fall-off? looking move. No control. No confidence. So I need to tackle this from both ends of the move.
Skinning the cat is when you are in pike under the bar and you rotate yourself backwards so that your feet are pointing to the floor and your body follows. The move isn't too hard to get into but once there, you can get stuck. You need really strong core muscles and strong arms to pull your body back to pike. So training usually involves rotating to your limit and back, or having a partner help you lift yourself back some of the way. I need to be doing both of these training techniques in order to improve. If I can't pull myself out, even a little, I don't have enough control.
Then we have one arm hangs. Exactly what you might expect: hanging from a bar using only one arm, well, hand. The work for this will be practice practice practice to increase my endurance. On the trapeze and on my pull up bar at home. Keeping correct body position, keeping shoulders down, for an ever increasing number of seconds on each attempt. In fact, my pull up bar might be my secret weapon for this move. Like with the pull ups I conquered last year, regular (maybe even daily) practice can really show fast results.
In other news, the DVD for the Christmas show will be out soon. So excited to see it - I loved working on it with everyone and I'm curious to see how it all looked. I've never been in a proper aerial show before.
I've decided to look at them one at a time for the moment. First up: skinning the cat to one arm hang. I can sort of do this already, in a messy scary did-you-fall-off? looking move. No control. No confidence. So I need to tackle this from both ends of the move.
Skinning the cat is when you are in pike under the bar and you rotate yourself backwards so that your feet are pointing to the floor and your body follows. The move isn't too hard to get into but once there, you can get stuck. You need really strong core muscles and strong arms to pull your body back to pike. So training usually involves rotating to your limit and back, or having a partner help you lift yourself back some of the way. I need to be doing both of these training techniques in order to improve. If I can't pull myself out, even a little, I don't have enough control.
Then we have one arm hangs. Exactly what you might expect: hanging from a bar using only one arm, well, hand. The work for this will be practice practice practice to increase my endurance. On the trapeze and on my pull up bar at home. Keeping correct body position, keeping shoulders down, for an ever increasing number of seconds on each attempt. In fact, my pull up bar might be my secret weapon for this move. Like with the pull ups I conquered last year, regular (maybe even daily) practice can really show fast results.
In other news, the DVD for the Christmas show will be out soon. So excited to see it - I loved working on it with everyone and I'm curious to see how it all looked. I've never been in a proper aerial show before.
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