Back on the horse
May. 13th, 2019 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dilletanteWell, fabric. After essentially dropping it for a number of years, I've resolved to get back into aerial silks. I'm starting over with Esh's 101 class, which cinnabarine was kind enough to take with me. I know the material, but even back when I was doing it regularly I could have used some time paying very close attention to basic form; and nowadays I don't even have the strength anymore.
We used to do a hands-only hand-over-hand climb at the end of practice for conditioning. Today I went to the open practice and at the end I could do zero hand-over-hand climbs. Not zero times to the top of the fabric: zero times putting one hand over the other. Ugh.
I'm charmed to see there has been some great development in teaching silks since I was doing it last. Learning to tie a footlock while on the ground... learning all the pieces of tying a footlock in the air while still sitting on the ground... I feel a little like the stereotypical crotchety old martial artist-- "Back in my day, we learned this in the air! It took us weeks to do it right! We could barely use our arms after practice!" etc etc etc.
But I'm enjoying the opportunity to just practice basic climbs and try to manage to get some height without bending my arms. It's a work in progress!
Anyway I'm back to the exciting world of always having silk burns somewhere on my body.
cinnabarine was kind enough to take with me. I know the material, but even back when I was doing it regularly I could have used some time paying very close attention to basic form; and nowadays I don't even have the strength anymore.We used to do a hands-only hand-over-hand climb at the end of practice for conditioning. Today I went to the open practice and at the end I could do zero hand-over-hand climbs. Not zero times to the top of the fabric: zero times putting one hand over the other. Ugh.
I'm charmed to see there has been some great development in teaching silks since I was doing it last. Learning to tie a footlock while on the ground... learning all the pieces of tying a footlock in the air while still sitting on the ground... I feel a little like the stereotypical crotchety old martial artist-- "Back in my day, we learned this in the air! It took us weeks to do it right! We could barely use our arms after practice!" etc etc etc.
But I'm enjoying the opportunity to just practice basic climbs and try to manage to get some height without bending my arms. It's a work in progress!
Anyway I'm back to the exciting world of always having silk burns somewhere on my body.
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