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dilletanteDoing a three-session seminar on Cyr wheel at Esh (with moominmolly). I had always assumed Cyr wheel was "like German wheel, but with more peril" (because of the hoop rolling over your fingers); but the first session was more "like German wheel but with more prop manipulation." That is, we spent most of our time playing with the hoop as a thing separate from us that could be moved in different ways. That's great-- prop manipulation is my jam.
The second session-- yesterday-- we got into more using it as an apparatus that you can climb on/into and move with it. Actually we spent most of our time trying to mount it while it was moving... and it reminded me a lot of when I was learning unicycle (which I tried, clumsily, to mention to the teacher)-- I learned to free-mount the unicycle before learning how to ride it, which was a little weird (I followed a more experienced person's idiosyncratic advice), so for a long time I was, as we were in yesterday's class, learning to mount an apparatus in a way that would allow for going into a dynamic balance trick, without yet actually being able to do the dynamic balance trick. There's a certain amount of blind fumbling.
Unlike on unicycle, I gather from the things our teacher said that the skills involved in mounting the Cyr wheel for this particular trick are closely related to the skills involved in doing the actual trick. And also there's no real "non-free-mount" option available.
But anyway, we basically are at the point of starting to glimpse a cool trick that we might soon be able to do. It's exciting! :)
moominmolly). I had always assumed Cyr wheel was "like German wheel, but with more peril" (because of the hoop rolling over your fingers); but the first session was more "like German wheel but with more prop manipulation." That is, we spent most of our time playing with the hoop as a thing separate from us that could be moved in different ways. That's great-- prop manipulation is my jam.The second session-- yesterday-- we got into more using it as an apparatus that you can climb on/into and move with it. Actually we spent most of our time trying to mount it while it was moving... and it reminded me a lot of when I was learning unicycle (which I tried, clumsily, to mention to the teacher)-- I learned to free-mount the unicycle before learning how to ride it, which was a little weird (I followed a more experienced person's idiosyncratic advice), so for a long time I was, as we were in yesterday's class, learning to mount an apparatus in a way that would allow for going into a dynamic balance trick, without yet actually being able to do the dynamic balance trick. There's a certain amount of blind fumbling.
Unlike on unicycle, I gather from the things our teacher said that the skills involved in mounting the Cyr wheel for this particular trick are closely related to the skills involved in doing the actual trick. And also there's no real "non-free-mount" option available.
But anyway, we basically are at the point of starting to glimpse a cool trick that we might soon be able to do. It's exciting! :)
