Trapeze is the converse of knitting

With knitting there are usually two sticks and a string... with trapeze there's one stick hanging from two strings. :-)

Because of being in a slump, I've been extra strict for the last week or so about doing a) productive things that should give me a sense of motion and b) cool things that should be exciting. Things filed under "a" include finishing knitting a sweater piece, and starting to replace the bathroom vanity last weekend with heisenbug. Things filed under "b" include today's private trapeze lesson (with harm_city_heart, no less).

So this one's for nevers and apfelsingail -- I figured you guys might get a kick out of my first encounter with your favorite apparatus. :-)

( Summary )

Ultimately, aerial stuff doesn't fill me with awe and desire in the same way handbalancing does. But it's fair to say I have 5x more obvious capacity for it -- thanks to Ido for the straight-arm strength work and acroyoga for the proprioception. If I want to go singlemindedly after the thing that most impresses me, then trapeze or lyra would be, well, either cross-training or distraction. But if I want to perform in a student recital in a year or so, I'd be way better off hanging from something. (This is all in a continuum with contortion, which fills me with even more awe and desire but which I have even less capacity for. Grumble.)

Anyway -- just exploring, for now. After six months under a rock, it feels good.

I should probably set up a private handbalancing session and see what those are like, too.