Silks 2 Week 1

[ladysprite]

Okay - just started silks level 2 today, and... it's going to be a challenge.

I'm the idiot of the class - there are two other students, both with a LOT more experience with me. One has taken level 2 silks 3 times now; the other has a year and a half of aerial hoop experience.

Plus my new teacher.... she and I just don't mesh well. She tends to assume we all know things I don't; she plays on her phone while we're practicing, and during closing class, she said she wanted everyone to say their most and least favorite things about the class.... but forgot me. Literally. Like, had one student talk, had the other, and then when I opened my mouth, said 'now it's time to move to stretching!' She remembered a few minutes later, and asked me if I wanted to "share," but by then I just wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

Add to that the fact that we spent about 45 minutes of class today climbing, in spite of my injured shoulder, and that she kept working on climbs after I told her I was in pain and it was hampering my ability to descend properly and safely.... (apparently I was supposed to just sit out, in spite of the fact that I paid for the class?)

Anyway. I won't be able to make it to extra practice this week, and on top of that we're starting to learn enough stuff that I want to keep a log of it from week to week, so I'm going to start listing stuff we do here. If I can't physically practice, at least I can keep things in my mind..... This is mostly for me, so feel free to skip and move along.



Russian climb (fabric inside knee, outside and under foot, other foot brings it up and over)
-rest position - squat and hug

Basic climb - details (knee to backside, then out and around, arms straight)

Split silks descent - sandwich feet, top knee in, flex feet. Both arms through, slide down

Rebecca Splits - single foot knot, wrap arm around other silk. Thigh side lean, reach behind, fabric up and over waist. Straighten up, lean again, grab fabric in bottom hand, hold taut and pivot so hips are up. Arabesque legs.
From there - pike straight leg; free leg knee hook around front fabric. Let go of free end, slide fabric at hip so it's under/against fabric on thigh. Dangle upside down

Side straddle up - stand to one side but have near foot in front of fabrics

Also - practiced foot knots in the air, thigh side lean, foot knot roll-up

Comments

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

I think that's a good way to approach this. And yes, I think he may well have been more awesome than she is lousy. I've seen a lot of "you're on your own" teachers in situations like this.