New Hoop

Learned a bit of a flow session and tried to make it my own. Yea, it's a bit clumsy. But I was having fun. Isn't mah new hoop so purty?!

Silks, again

I'm back with cross-training silks. I've been three times in the last few weeks. It really is a fabulous aerials conditioning workout. I don't have any aspirations of looking graceful up there. But I hope it helps with lyra. I am seeing progress with ball, less jumping, more control. I can finally hold my straddle (I mean, jumping up into it, spiderman pose, squeeze thighs together until I'm sure I have it, then spread 'em). Of course, now my teacher wants me to focus on stack. I'm not sure I'll ever get a good stack. I just feel there's too much body in my boobage/tummy area for my arms to properly pull and stack. I'd need too much bend at the elbows, which requires even more strength than straight arm. Show me a plus size aerialist doing a proper stacked straddle, and maybe I'll think differently.

But I can finally do a single foot lock from the air. This was elusive for so long because you have to hang on from each silks, without a wrist wrap. Thus my grip is extra tight and needs to be super strong. I didn't have the strength until now. It's not graceful. But I was able to do the full single foot lock series from a single foot lock in the air, so I'm higher up. And considering I haven't done this since Feb 1, I'd say not too shabby.

And then a basic foot lock from the air into my favorite simple pose.

Intermediate lyra classes start soon. I've been promoted, but I still don't believe I should have been. I plan to continue training silks, maybe on the weeks I don't have a private lesson for lyra.

Moving Along

I'm still in a lyra rut. There's so much I still can't do. Especially inversions. This bothers me muchly. I feel like I'll never get them without cheating/jumping. I start intermediate classes soon, and my anxiety is telling me, they're all gonna laugh at you! You know, on the inside. I don't believe anyone will actually say anything mean. They'll just think it, like how in the hell did this chick promote, she can't even invert properly.

I learned profile shoulder stand, transition to a deep man in the moon. It's quite fun.

Then as per usual on Saturdays, after lyra, I went hooping. With mah new hoop! Just arrived yesterday. I love it. It's 35" so a bit smaller than I'm used to. But the 37" was starting to feel a bit too big. Such a pretty color!

Oh and some backbendy progress from last night, attaching April's photo again.

4/24/18

6/29/18

Rachael Lust 2.0

Another Rachael Lust workshop last Saturday. This time, BREAKS! She's ahmazing at them. Me, not so much.

Pullover!

Pullover SUCCESS! I did it without catching my feet on the second warmup run through. Of course, not on video. I tried again like 9 or 10x with video, and nope. Still catching my foot. Until I tried once more, got an ugly version but still a success. And then this, a much cleaner version. Yay! I hope it stays with me so I can show my teacher in person at our next lesson.

Then I went hooping. I can't use my phone camera because it stops the music playing in my earbuds. So I use a regular camera but woefully did not have a good angle. Gah! But still, I can see how into it I am, how spunky I feel. There were moments of pure joy, losing myself in the music, in the flow.