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Last night, I spent an hour acquainting myself with a trapeze, rope, & ribbons. I was unable to climb the rope. However, I did rather well on the trapeze & with the ribbons! :-D

Since I was a very little girl, I have wanted to learn how to perform aerialist work. I used to wonder how I could become an aerialist. My inquiries were often cut short with the proclamation that I would have had to started training for that when I was younger.

Never-mind that I had started gymnastics, ballet, and tap before I was five. Never-mind that, by age 16, my physical fitness put professional dancers & the boys on my high school football team to shame. Never-mind that I’ve recently learned many people start aerialist work well into their 20’s, 30’s, & maybe even 40’s plus.

Never-mind that sometimes you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Well, last night, I put all those nay-sayers to rest.

At one point, I spun over the trapeze bar & looked at myself in the mirror situated across the room from me. I was on a trapeze bar, six or seven feet off the ground. I had my legs together, slightly arched, toes pointing up. My arms reached toward the sky. My head was up & my chest proudly jutted out. I was balancing on my hips. All 211 pounds of me. 

And I was smiling

After class, the instructor talked with me about my strengths and weaknesses. I am flexible, she said, and I have enough strength to do the work (though, my upper body could use some work). The only issue we both could see is that I still have enough bulk to make some poses and necessary reaches impossible.

I’m going to have to continue losing weight if I want to go very much further in my aerialist work. 

Now, that’s a goal I can get behind!

Today, I did another 60 minutes of kickboxing. But this time, I added arm weights for the first 10 minutes. Still doing well with my diet. I’ve got a goal to achieve      

Posted on February 27th, 2009 by lanvin
Filed under: Daily Check-In, Mini-Goals