Way to make a girl blush

[flexagon]

Weird, the last TWO updates on my Facebook timeline are totally unprovoked compliments about acro. Also, last week someone asked me if I was an acro teacher, which had never happened before (although people think I might be a yoga teacher all the time). Splutter. It's so public, there is nothing I can do but gracefully accept the compliments, and I feel conflicted about it. I'm not a superstar! ...although the circus training is definitely giving me some tricks that stand out in the acroyoga world.

I am thinking about trust, and how I bailed a couple of times on Weds night when being pitched by Heatwave ("sorry, trust issues!"), but with the Ant I was totally fine being pitched up to head height. He said how high he wanted to take it, I said yes, he caught me every single time, the end. Weirdly, we all happened to be looking over at another group just as a flyer freaked out mid-pitch and karate-kicked her base (soong, as it happens) in the face on the way down. It was kind of neat-looking, in a Matrix-y way, and also horrifying, and I think it reminded the bases that they're depending on me, too.

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three tangents

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Maybe it was an off night or we were tired or something, but with that flier we've gotten 99% of the way to pitching to hand to foot (in lines). Hm, maybe the lines are a bigger crutch than I'd realized. Maybe if we warmed up in lines and then tried it without we'd be more confident that night.

I've gotten "are you a teacher?" about dancing. After a couple years of getting that I taught a 6 week intro course to a bunch of beginners.

Now in acro world I have gone to hippie festivals and led people through basics like thighstand, flag, stacks, camel, candlestick, assisted backflip, etc. All that takes about an hour and a half and everyone leaves tired and happy.

Re: three tangents

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Sure. I'm not, as I'm sure you understood, picking on that flyer. Things happen. I lost my form in the air once that night too (feet backward though, not forward). Please believe me though, it looked pretty shocking, from the side. And I hope your face is okay.

Pitching is such a terribly specific trust thing. I'd let our teacher pitch me all day, and I'd let the Ant do most things. You're my third favorite (we've had some really great pitches to that demi position), and after that there's a big gap and a long slide down into I-don't-like-this-at-all. I mean, I don't even like it with Scooper, and I have a ton of physical trust with him on most tricks. :P

I like teaching beginners (1:1 or in trios), and feel confident enough that I could teach a beginner class, but still for some reason I was shocked at being asked. Pleased, though. :-)