Aerial Silks - Wiped Out!

I went to the silks class at 8pm tonight since I will be missing my usual Thursday night class tomorrow. This was my fourth day in a class spending at least an hour working out, three of which were very hard workouts. (I am a big fan of classes, because when left to my own devices, I often settle for a half an hour of work when I can do more.)

My shoulders are still quite sore today from Monday's aerial class, although not as painful as yesterday. I mentioned this to the instructor tonight so we could avoid any shoulder-twisting moves. As a result, we worked on the Star Drop, which has resulted in giant bruises all over my thighs. The good thing is, I was able to do it correctly! The bad thing is I not feel like my entire body has been beaten to a pulp.

We worked on the Scorpion move that we had started a little bit on Monday. I had a few false starts and also got epically tangled in the silks and required a lot of assistance to get out. But I got it down around the 3rd try. It's a really good back stretch and it was a relief to do something that wasn't painful after the Star Drop. The other girl who was also working on it is very flexible and was able to actually put her feet on top of her head!

The last thing I worked on was the Georgia Twist. This is a fancier way to get into the Cross-Back Straddle than the usual yanking-the-silks-into-an-X-behind-the-back method. This is almost more of a Coordination move than a Difficulty move. Coordination is not by strong suit. But I got into it! It took a few tries, of course, but once I figured it out, I was able to repeat it at least 3 more times.

We freestyled at the end of class (we did on Monday as well) and I am eager to see the video. Neither are on YouTube yet, but I did spend at least a half hour watching videos from the studio's Winter Showcase a few weekends ago that I missed. Makes me look forward to the next one in April.....

I was telling my husband about how class went when we got home and I realized that this might be the first time I've ever pulled off every single thing I tried to do during the hour that I'm there. Feels good.