Acroyoga Festival day 1
Oct. 8th, 2010 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI'm back at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rifmeister's place after the first day of the acroyoga festival, and not feeling quite the way I expected to feel. Today was a single workshop from 9 to 5 taught by the founders Jason and Jenny, and it focused on "washing machines". Awesome, except for two things: first, I wound up basing all day instead of flying, and second, somehow the giant room full of really high-level people left me feeling kind of negative about the Boston scene.
That said, who cares -- San Francisco is beautiful, I got to see people I haven't seen since last year, and I was stronger and better than I was at last year's intensive. The basing was hard on my wrists and shoulders, but with my flying muscles still sore from Ido Portal it may have been all right to let those ones rest. We also did some great flows that I want to remember and take back home.
Reverse tumbleweed: back bird, star, (lower feet to hands to) low foot-to-hand, (base's feet float through the flyer's legs and) back to back bird.
Tumbleweed: star, back bird, (base grabs the feet and) stand to low foot-to-hand, (base's feet float through, flyer bends over and brings shoulders down to feet to get back up to) star.
Four step.
"Whip" -- reverse throne, death drop to straddle bat, through to reverse bird, stand up to low foot to hand, back to reverse throne.
"no name yet" = Flyer lifts up into a tuck over the base's feet, optional pike, flyer places self in reverse throne. Waterfall, but with hands up on shoulders, into weird hand-grip shoulderstand, done in a straddle. Then, straddle bat. And through to reverse bird, then low foot-to-hand. I think the flyer then lifts themselves through to reverse throne again.
Catherine wheel -- Back bird, low foot-to-hand, (base's feet float through forward, drop flyer into) bird, free shoulderstand, (flyer reverse grip and scorpion over to) back bird.
Maha Catherine wheel -- reverse star, (scorpion over and drop feet into base's hands, POP up to) high reverse foot-to-hand. Base's feet float through, flyer bends way over and presses back to reverse star.
J&J said it was the most such things they'd ever taught in one day, and the only one I know that they didn't teach is spider roll.
Also seen: ninja star, which hasn't been taught but I'm hoping to figure out anyway.
The rest of the festival is going to break each day into pieces, and I'll make sure I get to fly some of those pieces.
rifmeister's place after the first day of the acroyoga festival, and not feeling quite the way I expected to feel. Today was a single workshop from 9 to 5 taught by the founders Jason and Jenny, and it focused on "washing machines". Awesome, except for two things: first, I wound up basing all day instead of flying, and second, somehow the giant room full of really high-level people left me feeling kind of negative about the Boston scene.That said, who cares -- San Francisco is beautiful, I got to see people I haven't seen since last year, and I was stronger and better than I was at last year's intensive. The basing was hard on my wrists and shoulders, but with my flying muscles still sore from Ido Portal it may have been all right to let those ones rest. We also did some great flows that I want to remember and take back home.
Reverse tumbleweed: back bird, star, (lower feet to hands to) low foot-to-hand, (base's feet float through the flyer's legs and) back to back bird.
Tumbleweed: star, back bird, (base grabs the feet and) stand to low foot-to-hand, (base's feet float through, flyer bends over and brings shoulders down to feet to get back up to) star.
Four step.
"Whip" -- reverse throne, death drop to straddle bat, through to reverse bird, stand up to low foot to hand, back to reverse throne.
"no name yet" = Flyer lifts up into a tuck over the base's feet, optional pike, flyer places self in reverse throne. Waterfall, but with hands up on shoulders, into weird hand-grip shoulderstand, done in a straddle. Then, straddle bat. And through to reverse bird, then low foot-to-hand. I think the flyer then lifts themselves through to reverse throne again.
Catherine wheel -- Back bird, low foot-to-hand, (base's feet float through forward, drop flyer into) bird, free shoulderstand, (flyer reverse grip and scorpion over to) back bird.
Maha Catherine wheel -- reverse star, (scorpion over and drop feet into base's hands, POP up to) high reverse foot-to-hand. Base's feet float through, flyer bends way over and presses back to reverse star.
J&J said it was the most such things they'd ever taught in one day, and the only one I know that they didn't teach is spider roll.
Also seen: ninja star, which hasn't been taught but I'm hoping to figure out anyway.
The rest of the festival is going to break each day into pieces, and I'll make sure I get to fly some of those pieces.
no subject
Date: 2010-10-24 06:43 pm (UTC)"no name yet" lost me. flyer lifts up into throne HOW? also what is waterfall?
The flyer's lift into throne is a strength move. They're supported on their hands (which are on the base's feet) doing an L-sit or whatever -- then they straddle their legs and basically sit on their own hands. Extracting the hands can be a little awkward.
They hook their feet, and then this is waterfall:
In fact, that's me doing waterfall. :) Just a backbend to get the shoulders down to the base's hands. But unlike the video, the flyer wants hands up to their own shoulders, and it goes into a sort of hand-to-hand balance. I'm not quite sure why do this instead of just a shoulderstand -- that would work too. Anything with the flyer there over the base's hands and in a pike straddle, then from there it's easy to fall or shift to straddle bat.
Going through to reverse bird, as in the last flow, the flyer's torso has to move backward through the base's legs. Base flexes feet, flyer lifts their chest. Then with some relief (nobody really loves reverse bird), the flyer pikes to lower their feet to the base's hands and stand up.
From there, it's flyer showoff time again -- put hands on the base's feet and lift unaided through to an L-sit or whatever, straddle the legs and sit down, and get the hands out. Repeat. Repeat.