I’ve been feeling much better apart from a very persistent and disgusting cough so took myself off to my aerial silks class tonight. Sadly, as good as I feel, I quickly realised that I didn’t have much energy. On a positive note, it does force you to think about your form and technique because you just don’t have the strength to bully your way through it.
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Another long day was had here in the land of Aussielicious, but it was expected and not a bad day at all. Being back in the work force it’s amazing how quickly your day can go when you are busy with good challenges.
After work and a brief stop at home I raced off to aerials class. Our teacher is getting us used to putting more and more tricks together and my arms by the end of the class couldn’t hold me up any more. There was no way I was going to flip myself upside down one more time, unless a very rapid freefall is your preferred mode of descent. I’m not sure I’m even going to have the strength for the only kind of regular sex a single boy can count on. I’m sure I’ll manage.
P.S. the photo has nothing to do with what I’ve written, but it’s beautiful.
After feeling so clumsy on Tuesday night at the first class back at silks, I’m determined to improve and when I saw this image it struck me as very beautiful. I wouldn’t mind being curled up with someone hot either!
After the wardrobe malfunction fiasco that was my Tarzan Routine for aerials class I launched a search to find some music suitable for a routine. It had to be slower than the tarzan routine but still with moments of drama and variation. It’s been decidedly more difficult than I thought but I think I’m going to work up a routine to “Roxanne de Tango” from Moulin Rouge. This video has more dialogue and extra bits than the audio I tracked down. It still might be a bit much but for this term I think that’s what I’m going to focus on.
Here’s the video from last night’s routine. I think I was distracted by the unintentional lack of costume, the hollering from my classmates and having to retrieve my undies from up my butt. I watch this and it looks rushed and my feet aren’t pointed and it wasn’t presented as well as it should have been. But then again I was tarzan, not something from swan lake. Enjoy!
I was hoping to be able to share a video with you tonight but I don’t seem to be able to download it from the camera. I’ve just got in from my silks class and our end of term performances for each other.
Well I thought it might happen and it did. Doing the first trick in my routine, my loincloth tore off leaving me in my new (bought for the occasion) tiger print aussieBums, which held up a treat I must say. BUT, I would suggest that anyone performing in silks, don’t do it in undies. As you’ll see when I do get to share the video with you, I did give myself a bit of a wedgie. I hope to get the video up soon.
The other day I posted about doing my silks routine at the end of term to Shakespeare’s Sister. That’s all out the window for now. I still think it would work really well and may aim to do it at another point but as a class group a decision was made to have a theme for all our performances. That theme is Animal Kingdom. So I’m doing my routine as Tarzan using the song “Jungle Boogie” from Pulp Fiction. I think it will be cool. It’s in another 3 weeks, so I have until then to track down a loin cloth and I might have to get some of the animal print undies from aussieBum. I’ll video the performance too.
A while ago I posted about having a bit of a retro moment and downloading songs from my teenage years. This song by Shakespeare’s Sister, a side project of one of the girls from Bananarama in 1992, always appealed to me in a bonkers tale of good versus evil, love conquering death kinda way and it’s dark and brooding love story. After listening to it several times over the last couple of weeks I thought it would make a cool song to do an aerial silks routine. Some good contrasts in it and dramatic moments to time with a cool drop trick. What do we think?
These images turned up in my email this morning and I absolutely love them. I have no idea who took them, nor who the guy in them is but I do know he’s got a killer body and the setting is stunning.
I’ve often thought, since the possibility of performing silks entered my head, of the logistics of performing over water and these photographs have just proven that it can be done and it can look amazing. If anyone knows who the photographer and/or model are, please let me know!
This guy’s performance is beautiful. Of course, there aren’t many places to perform that have the systems to raise and lower the performer but his strength and some of the moves are things I want to learn!
This woman is amazing. She doesn’t resort to all the big dramatic drops which look fantastic but she does everything beautifully proving the simple things are often the best.
No I’m not advocating drug abuse! The speedball is by far my favourite trick that we’ve learned so far at silks class. Charlie videoed this for me and I don’t think he was entirely paying attention, but the light behind me disguises some of my dodgy form. No I wasn’t meant to kick the trapeze next to me on the way down but it didn’t actually hurt. A little bit later I went on and did a double speedball which means I roll further but we didn’t get that on video!