Acro gets better again... not amazing, just better

[flexagon]

I'm kind of horrified at how little I've been updating LJ lately. I read it every day, and I think I think I'm posting, when I'm not. :-)

I wanted to post about last weekend, when my cold abated just in time to let me attend a weekend of acro workshops. Acro's been such a source of disconnect in my life lately, but the visiting teacher taught a bunch of L-basing stuff that was new, yet felt really good and accessible to me. He used me for a lot of demos and I had a lot of fun, and was flipped through the air rather nicely. As if this wasn't enough, on Sunday Esh had a visiting acroyoga base who I'd met at Divine Play, and we invented a fun little sequence with a pop into reverse hand-to-hand... something I've never had reliably before, but, look, now I have standing h2h instincts that come into play! We got it, oh, six or seven times, no problem.

So I got to feel like a good flyer again, and minus a lot of the tremendous awkwardness that's been around the acro scene lately, and that was really nice.

Continuing this theme, I did a three-person three-high private yesterday, and that was fun too! Usually I middle the three-highs, but this girl really wants to learn to middle, and I'm excited to get the chance to top fly, so that works for me. We got 95% of the way there, and the middle was disappointed in herself* over the missing 5%, but I'm excited to try again.

And there's an upcoming acro weekend in NYC, which the Ant reached out to me about. Why yes, you large and adorable insect, I would love to work with you! So I'm hoping to do a couple of semiprivates with him to lead up to that, and perhaps re-spark his interest in ongoing training (but I'm not so tied to that anymore; it's possible to find other partners).

* I gave her chocolate-covered almonds, and a hug, and assured her I really like working with her. EDITED TO ADD: and the next day we got two more shots at it, and we totally did it and kicked ass and the whole acro side of Esh stopped to watch us.

Comments

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

I have been experimenting with the Mandelic acid that you mentioned. I mostly like the results, although I have to be careful about getting too dry around my nose and chin.

[silentq.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering how you were doing, thanks for the update. :-)

[flexagon]

Oh, cool, did you get the same Garden of Wisdom stuff?

I ran out of my tiny bottle of 10% just yesterday, and ordered a bottle of the 15%.