I’ve recently been learning swing dance aerials. I will let you into a secret: they’re easy. Provided the height/weight ratios between partners are within certain tolerances, and provided everyone’s knees and elbows and shoulders are in the right place, that girl has to go over that guy’s shoulder. A pair of complete novices could probably learn any given aerial move in under an hour.
Many flashy jaw-dropping feats you see people do, in many performance arts, usually stem from there being an easy way to accomplish something that looks incredibly difficult. Fire eating is literally sticking a flame in your mouth and extinguishing it, but has a method so basic an eleven year old chemistry student should be able to tell you how it works. It’s probably easier than the swing aerials.
Learning to lead and follow properly, though, (the bit no-one notices), that takes weeks and weeks.
This is why I always feel weird watching the more “artistic” gymnastics-like events in the Olympics. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be impressed by.
I’ve recently been learning swing dance aerials. I will let you into a secret: they’re easy. Provided the height/weight ratios between partners are within certain tolerances, and provided everyone’s knees and elbows and shoulders are in the right place, that girl has to go over that guy’s shoulder. A pair of complete novices could probably learn any given aerial move in under an hour.
Many flashy jaw-dropping feats you see people do, in many performance arts, usually stem from there being an easy way to accomplish something that looks incredibly difficult. Fire eating is literally sticking a flame in your mouth and extinguishing it, but has a method so basic an eleven year old chemistry student should be able to tell you how it works. It’s probably easier than the swing aerials.
Learning to lead and follow properly, though, (the bit no-one notices), that takes weeks and weeks.
This is why I always feel weird watching the more “artistic” gymnastics-like events in the Olympics. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be impressed by.