Actor's Gym Days 13 & 14

Hello all,

I'm going to fill you in on my recent adventures with he actor's gym. So last weekend Elizabeth and I got to usher the summer intensive show. That is a different program than the one we are in. These performers were high school through college aged. But they were very, very good. Some of the stuff was stuff we had learned or touched on, and then they would pull out some trick that was absolutely astounding. Really talented bunch of people. I liked seeing the show with a little bit of knowledge because then I could sort of judge how difficult a trick might be based on the stuff I know now. It was a really great experience.

The last two classes we worked on Spanish Web again. I really enjoy doing Spanish Web. The interesting thing about it is that this is something I was sort of afraid of before coming to this. I used to have(not so much anymore) this fear of climbing. I don't know why. Heights never bothered me but just climbing always got to me. Now that fear is almost completely gone. How do I know that? Because we started working on a little routine called the Foot Web. What is Foot Web you ask? Well that means that you put your foot(rather than your hand) through the loop at the top so you are hanging just by one ankle. I never would have done thins before, but I was actually really excited to do it. I remember being a little nervous, but then I just thought, "I didn't come here to not learn something great." So I got up there and did it. It's kind of relaxing/ exhilarating. Minus all the weight on your ankle.

In circus We worked on Spanish Web some more. We tried tying all of the stuff we learned before with the hand web and the 8 loop routine with the new foot web stuff. My legs started shaking really bad because they were pretty worn out from the acrobatics stuff we did before. We did dive rolls and some really tough stretches. tougher than usual. We also started working on front tucks. That's just a front flip. I wanted to work on this for a while because I knew this was a trick I could land. I did land it so Sylvia's instructions became more of how to pretty it up. After all of that we went onto Rolling Globe again. I was very surprised at how much better I had gotten at it. Especially after only doing it once before.

That is all I have comrades,

-Chris