For everyone out there that has taken any hoop or trapeze classes:
Walking into the studio you are frightened that you are not going to be able to do anything. While the intructor is warming you up you are looking up at your hoopor trapeze and thinking
how am I going to get through this next hour without making a total fool of myself?
Now you are all warmed up and your teacher demonstrates how to get up into the hoop or trapeze, looks simple enough, you've got this. And then you try... Your legs drop to the ground instrantly not even close to the apparatus. Okay this is going to take more strength then you thought! You grip it really tight sure that this is going to make you stronger, and you try again, this time your toe hits the bar and you monkey your way up and get your knees hooked! You've done it. Now you have to sit up. With a lot of huffing and puffing, and struggling through that moment when you go to sit up and you are just hanging from your arms, you give one final grunt and you are up! Proudly you come down and think I can do this. Then you realize that you only did the mount and now you have got to learn the actual tricks.
For most of us we have been there. At first we are struggling to even get the move but are able to get through class.
But just getting through the moves is not the goal the true art is making it look easy and smooth.
In our intermediate class Suzy has been working with the students to combine moves with smoother transitions. Also there is a lot of endurance that comes into play as well. Here are the girls in our second ever intermediate class demonstrating the combination of the day.
