Actor's Gym Day 3

Hello all. Do you wanna hear what I did on day 3 of the actor's gym? I got rope-burn like it was my job. It was a pretty intense day again today. This was my third class, but only my second day of Aerial arts. Once again I am going to be sore for the next few days.

Today in Aerial we started working on spanish web. Essential spanish web is a big rope attached to the ceiling with a small loop near the top. We started off the class doing some serious stretching again. Much to my surprise it hasn't gotten any easier. I am not very flexible. Well not enough for some of these stretches. We then went on to learn how to actually climb the rope. Yes there is a proper way to do it. It does make things quite a bit easier.

After we learned all of the climbing essentials we went up and started doing a hand routine as they called it. For the hand routine you have to put your hand into the loop near the top of the rope. This was actually kind of hard because we were only holding on with our legs. Once that was safely secured the instructor starts spinning the rope and you begin your routine. This was ridiculously fun, and dizzying. The routine had splits, double stags, and what the call the angel. that's where you have to flip your legs through your hands, pull one leg through and basically do the splits. I had the strength to get to the position, but it didn't look to great. Probably due to the lack of flexibility.

After all that we learned what the 8-loop was. That is a way of securing your foot on the rope. There is another routine that we put onto the beginning of the one we just learned. Once up in the hand strap you put your foot in this 8-loop position and the began spinning again. This was also crazy fun because you are doing all these tricks, while spinning, and while holding onto this rope with one hand and one foot. Then from there we went right back into the hand routine. Boy does it make you dizzy.

Unlike last week which required a lot of ab strength this one was all upper body. It was quite the workout. I know that I'm not going to want to get out of bed tomorrow, but I have to because we have our 2nd Circus arts class. Yippee Skippee.

-Chris