Actor's Gym - Aerial Day 2

Today was the second week of the Aerial Arts class.  The apparatus of the day: the Spanish Web.  Out of the two aerial arts I have learned so far, Spanish Web is my favorite, by a long run.  Oh my goodness.  I had so much fun today.

The Spanish Web is basically just a rope.  This rope is strung from the ceiling and is loose at the floor.  There is a loop about 3/4 of the way up the rope that can be used by your wrist or your ankle (and in some extreme cases, your neck, but not for me!) to strap yourself into the apparatus.  The rope can either be freestanding for climbing, and then can be moved by someone one the ground in a circular motion to make you spin (see video below).  Trapeze was so hard for me because it is all abdominal strength and arm strength.  Spanish Web was so much easier because you need more leg strength than arm strength to pull yourself up, and you are strapped in for most of the time, so you can hang and not have to worry about slipping off of something and falling to your death.  Trapeze scares the crap out of me.  I didn't really make that clear in last weeks entries, but it does.  I felt much safer with the Spanish Web.

Here is a video of a Spanish Web routine.  The first five moves you see, we did in class today, along with some other stuff.  Very neat stuff.  You feel like you're flying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INXhaNwTIiE

I know we'll be working more with Spanish Web tomorrow in Circus, and I'm really excited for that.

I also have my own juggling balls to practice with now.  Watch out.  I'm going to be a master juggler.

Until next time.