Results For Category: "Aerials"
What’s On Your Preflight Checklist?
Before pilots take their planes into the air, they run through a preflight checklist. The basic—yet critical—premise is that it’s better to…
Exercises Every Aerialist Should Do, part two: thoracic mobility
You know, there’s a piece to this expanding and wonderfully complex puzzle that is the healthy flyer/aerialist/circus artist that has been nagging…
Stopping the flinch: getting serious about core control
For many, it happens the moment they start pulling when doing a pull-up or a climb. It’s also there all too often…
Strong stable shoulders: How to grip the bar and why your head position matters
This month, things are going to get practical, comprehensive and maybe a little bit controversial. Over the past two months, I’ve focused…
Why anterior core control matters for your (aerial) shoulder health
There’s so much I want to share with you and, for now, just the one blog post. The goal of this month’s…
Exercises Every Aerialist (and Flyer) Should Do: part one
In the world of recreational flying trapeze, you’ll very often hear “you don’t need to be very strong, flexible or athletic to…
Improve Your Flying in Your Spare Time
So you’ve fallen in love with the flying trapeze. Or perhaps for you, it’s Silks, Static Trapeze or Trampoline. No matter the…
Conditioning Matters
Do you remember those first few classes when we told you “flying trapeze isn’t about strength, it’s all about timing?” Well, that…
Going back to basics: staying ‘tight’
We’ve all heard it and most instructors have probably said it: Stay tight! But what does it mean and why is it…