Upside Down Time!
Feb. 11th, 2015 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteIt feels like all I really write about right now is silks and business. On the other hand, that's really a lot of my life right now. That, and snow and snow and snow and more snow. Seriously, so much snow. The only things motivating me to leave the house are... silks, and business. Plus everyone I know has been sick, so even if I wanted to get out, it would be seriously unwise.
Anyway, my last two silks classes had been cancelled due to blizzards, so I had a makeup class today with a new instructor. Given that half of the state is still snowed in, there was only one other student in the class, so between that and the fact that we were both full of pent-up snowed-in energy, the teacher drove us like racehorses today.
We did *everything* and we did it all upside down in the air, mostly without coming down. We learned a couple of bits that were new to me, particularly ankle hangs - which will take a little bit of practice for me to figure out just how to wrap the fabrics, but look amazing and terrifying from the outside - but most of what was amazing was just being able to string a series of tricks together without coming down to the ground in between.
I've hit the point where my teacher can say "Climb 3/4 of the way up, do a dance wrap and half monty, then pike out, step back into your wraps, splits to both sides, Georgia twist into a crossback straddle, then unwrap and ankle hang, climb out and descend,"
....and I can do it. All. On the first try.
My grip is fried, now, and I'll need some heat and NSAIDs for my shoulder, but I am a freaking lion. Raaar.
Anyway, my last two silks classes had been cancelled due to blizzards, so I had a makeup class today with a new instructor. Given that half of the state is still snowed in, there was only one other student in the class, so between that and the fact that we were both full of pent-up snowed-in energy, the teacher drove us like racehorses today.
We did *everything* and we did it all upside down in the air, mostly without coming down. We learned a couple of bits that were new to me, particularly ankle hangs - which will take a little bit of practice for me to figure out just how to wrap the fabrics, but look amazing and terrifying from the outside - but most of what was amazing was just being able to string a series of tricks together without coming down to the ground in between.
I've hit the point where my teacher can say "Climb 3/4 of the way up, do a dance wrap and half monty, then pike out, step back into your wraps, splits to both sides, Georgia twist into a crossback straddle, then unwrap and ankle hang, climb out and descend,"
....and I can do it. All. On the first try.
My grip is fried, now, and I'll need some heat and NSAIDs for my shoulder, but I am a freaking lion. Raaar.
