Aerial Flow

I've been learning the art of aerial silks for a year now. The studio (Infinity Aerial - love them!) introduced a new aerial class this week: Aerial Flow. I've been learning techniques and tricks (and building strength) for all of 2012 and this new class is about putting the moves we've learned together with choreography. This is perfect timing, as I was starting to want to attempt sequencing and was kind of at a loss of how to use my arsenal of tricks in conjunction with one another. 

We started working on our first Flow routine tonight. 

We only got through the first four moves tonight and while I can do the first three with ease individually, pulling them all together and adding the fourth move, which is difficult, challenging. Everything we worked on today was from a single foot lock, and even though I switched sides with each run-through, both of my feet are feeling pretty tender. 

I'm hoping that reviewing the routine list and visualizing it in my head throughout the week will help for the next class. I also think that the scheduling of Flow will work out well. I usually attend 6 classes per month, so I can take a combination of Arts (learning new moves) and Flow classes and get better as an aerialist all around.

Learning to be graceful looks to be just as hard as learning to be strong....