The Owl and The Pussycats aerial show

C is for Candlestick

Here's another extract from my A-Z of aerial skills magazine, C is for......Candlestick,maybe B should be from the bruises that you get from being in this position......
If I was going to do a trapeze routine today my music choice would probably be...

The Lovin Spoonful-Daydream

P is for Parisian

Here is a page from a magazine I'm working on, an illustrated A-Z of trapeze and silks and ropes and anything else you can hang from, pose on, climb up or potentially fall off...
I have finally made peace with the trapeze for the first time since my back crunching fall in July, my favorite pose is the Parisian which is why I've drawn it first, it is mostly like how I have drawn except you tilt your head up as if you are looking at the ceiling to look like a proper poser, but I cant draw profiles yet. I would love to do a routine dressed like this with this music playing (Nick Cave-I'm your man) sometimes when I'm bored at the gym I just imagine doing a routine to this song and off I go into a daydream....

Snow Black and the back crunching trapeze fall

Today was my last aerial skills lesson of the summer semester and I was really looking forward to putting my routine together and getting some photographs taken to show everyone what I've been up to. When I first started the class I was scared of lots of the moves, today I was brave....and fell. badly. turns out my left hand still has a lousy grip (I blame my rollerskating accident for this, aged 7) The worst bit was the really loud crunch noise that you don't want to hear coming from your own body. The best bit was the spectacular way I landed, I was told not to move and it was then that I became aware that I'd landed with arms and legs all over the place, resembling one of those chalk outlines of murder victims from a comedy film.
I've now had a coating of painkilling gel smothered all over my back and have heat patches stuck all over it, I look like a walking science experiment. Good news is I've been told it takes 7 bad falls to become really good at trapeze, so I feel like i'm making progress......



I've started to add some of my drawings to the flickr group "What I wore today" go have a look