I wrote before about setting myself a quota not of successes or prize finishes, but of failures and eliminations. In reality, though, challenging something and being defeated hurts in a way that is no joke, and immediately afterward you may regret it enough to curse yourself for ever having…
I think some of the most important moments in your life, the ones that shaped who you are as a person, were moments when you did something for the first time.…
One of the well-known aerial studios in Los Angeles is Womack and Bowman — The Loft. The studio was founded by Brett Womack and Rachel Bowman, both of whom have performed professionally on stages around the world, including television, film, and large-scale live events.…
In A Study in Spin, I wrote about what spin in aerial silks is in the first place, and how it is created. In A Study in Spin 2, I wrote about what kinds of spin to choose in terms of composition and staging. When it comes to actually learning the technique, I would also recommend…
My daily solo practice routine (before competition)…
My field is computer science, particularly research and development in one branch of AI, and there, too, as in aerial, competition exists. The most famous arena is probably the vast coliseum known as Kaggle. There is something exhilarating in the fairness of a stage where…
I loved those hours I spent practicing alone in aerial studios in midnight Tokyo. There were two studios I used to rent in the dead of night.…
Spin sequences admit of infinite variation (see the previous article, A Study in Spin), yet once one begins from the purpose of the stage and the demands of the performance, it more or less determines itself what kinds of spin skills ought to be used, in what order, and in what posture, on what axis…