Opposite Side something-something drop

Long time no update on this, but I'm still sporadically attending the aerial fabrics class.  This quarter the time is somewhat less convenient than before, 8 pm on Sunday nights.  Between family dinners
and not getting the start date right, I ended up missing a few classes but I'm planning on going regularly for the rest of the quarter, plus hitting the gym right before the class means no wait for all the cardio machines.  It's amazing how quickly arm strength will deteriorate because I now have a lot more difficulty climbing than I used to, and since the intermediate class is MUCH smaller than the beginner class I really ought to take advantage of having more time on the silks as much as my forearms may protest the exercise.  I find I'm much more a fan of the static poses and the climbs than the drops because...drops frankly scare the bejeesus out of me and I think I need those bejeesus to get around in life.

However, this week we did learn this fun drop which I already forget the name of (I made a point of asking again at the end of class too), and this one is not that scary for me.  I know I'm plunging straight down on it, but it feels very secure and there's not all this crazy flipping around in different directions, and the landing doesn't hurt like the others.  I have no idea how boys perform and kind of silk maneuvers because let me tell you, those silks get FRESH with you.  They need for safety's sake to get IN places.  I started wearing my bike shorts underneath, because I haven't quite deadened all the nerves on my inner thigh yet.  Makes drops a lot less scary.  Now I just need to work on the dismount, hehehe.

Single Star Drop

 

 I'm pleased to report on my continuing adventures in aerial fabrics class - there is improvement!  If you saw my earlier post, I was just SO MASSIVELY BAD it was downright embarrassing.  As I did suspect there was a trick to getting up that fabric so since then it hasn't been so bad.  The dance training has really helped because there's a lot of things you can get away with by being flexible that's kind of like a cheat...like fixing your position when you got into it wrong.  It was kind of like in wushu when I don't REALLY have the strength to to do a kip up, or the proper height to do an aerial, but I could cheat it by being flexible enough to shorten the required air time required for both moves. Ha!

THe moves that I'm having trouble with now are probably now due to my squodgy and wimptastic core.  Since hitting the ripe old age of thirty I've noticed that portion of my anatomy has become somewhat more troublesome with the upkeep (I need that fat to hibernate!! in...California...no really). 

And despite my utter and debilitating fear of heights, I discovered today that I think I'm going to like dropping!  This is the single star drop, just one rotation down - I didn't go that high up it's pretty fun twirling down the ribbon!  It's a very secure stop at the end which is probably why it's not that scary...so secure I got some bruises in delicate areas...