This is a straightforward record of the 13 months from the time I began aerial silks to the time I placed in an international competition, written in the hope that it may be of some use to someone else learning or teaching aerial.…
An aerial competition is no different from any other sport, any other contest, and, depending on how one chooses to see it, from human history itself. Talent and effort may raise the odds of victory, but they do not guarantee it. In the end, the one who wins is not always the most talented, nor..…
Spin is often used to convey freedom or a sense of release. And certainly, there is something in a rotating body that can intoxicate even the one watching it. But inside that impression, the actual design is considerably more sober.…
To regard aerial silks as a sport or performing art that takes place only in the air is, I think, mistaken, or, if not mistaken, at least incomplete.…
Our own Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman made his stance clear when he lectured to undergraduates at Caltech: he knew that most of the students in the room would never become professional physicists, and yet he taught to the level of the most gifted students there…
Just as there are mathematicians who buy lottery tickets in the hope that they might win, and devout scientists who believe in God or in religion, people can believe in things for which there is no objective evidence, or, more plainly, in things that are not true and that they know are not true.…
Very few things are truly important. I believe this is a fundamental truth of life, and at the same time, the core of any strategy in expression...…
Lately, for certain reasons, I have been studying printing and textiles (which are closely related to aerial silks too). My studies are at the level of high school chemistry or reading catalogs from fabric and textile manufacturers at most, yet both printing and textiles are profound...…