Circus Workouts

“How To” with Gio: Double Foot Wraps (Session 2/Week 3 of 8)

by Giovanna Gatto
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Learn new circus tricks along with me! ~ Silks Maneuver ~ An essential move on the aerial silks is the double foot wrap.  This trick is critical for so many other maneuvers in your silks repertoire.  They may seem hard at first but once you conquer this, you will be set to do so many [...]

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“How To” with Gio: Trapeze Bridge (Session 2/Week 2 of 8)

by Giovanna Gatto
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“How To” with Gio Learn new circus tricks along with me! ~ Trapeze Maneuver ~ This past weekend, I took part in a Trapeze workshop at C2 with the amazing Kirsten Edwards.  She taught us a series of maneuvers and I’d like to share this bendy one with you. Week 2 of 8: Trapeze Bridge [...]

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“How To” with Gio: Shoulder Stand/Bridge in the Hoop (Session 2/Week 1 of 8)

by Giovanna Gatto
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“How To” with Gio Learn new circus tricks along with me! ~ Aerial Hoop Maneuver ~ Week 1 of 8: Shoulder Stand/Bridge in the Hoop (Advanced) 1.     Once on the hoop we start from “Man in the Moon” 2.     From there, push up on your bottom leg and hook the top leg as close to [...]

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Gio’s Circus Diary – Week 8 of 8

by Giovanna Gatto
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Week 8 of 8 (First Session of 2011) 1.     Silks on Sunday 2.     Hoop on Thursday 3.     Open Gym every day of the week Oh my goodness!  I cannot believe session one is already complete.  Eight weeks flew by in a blink of an eye. For this week’s silks class, Elisa wrote down all of [...]

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For the Love of Trapeze

by Kirsten Edwards
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A few days ago a good friend and amazing circus colleague asked me if I would be interested in writing a short piece about the importance of Trapeze as an aerial circus discipline.  I immediately jumped at the opportunity and started plotting my argument in my head.  In other words, I looked at this as [...]

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Gio’s Circus Diary – Week 7 of 8

by Giovanna Gatto
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Week 7 of 8 (First Session of 2011) 1.     Silks on Sunday 2.     Hoop on Thursday 3.     Open Gym every day of the week One week left, can’t believe how fast the time flew by! Sunday’s silks class was super fun.  Everyone has officially been able to do both halves of our “routine,” separately.  We [...]

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Gio’s Circus Diary – Week 6 of 8

by Giovanna Gatto
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Week 6 of 8 (First Session of 2011) 1.     Silks on Sunday 2.     Hoop on Thursday 3.     Open Gym every day of the week Where has this session gone?  Only two weeks left! Time really does fly when you’re having fun. Silks class this week was back to normal with our favorite Miss Elisa back [...]

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Gio’s Circus Diary – Week 5 of 8

by Giovanna Gatto
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Week 5 of 8 (First Session of 2011) 1.     Silks on Sunday 2.     Hoop on Thursday 3.     Open Gym every day of the week Congratulations Elisa and Tony!!!  Wishing you a happy and healthy life together! Post-wedding week!  Woo hoo! The lovely Kirsten Leila Edwards taught this week’s silks class!  We had such a blast [...]

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Circus Diary – Week 4 of 8

by Giovanna Gatto
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Week 4 of 8 (First Session of 2011) 1.     Silks on Sunday 2.     Hoop on Thursday 3.     Open Gym every day of the week Can you believe we are already four weeks in?  I can’t!  A month in and everyone is looking like rock stars. The amazing Cassy taught our silks class this week.  Everyone [...]

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Gio’s Circus Diary – Week 3 of 8

by Giovanna Gatto
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Week 3 of 8 (First Session of 2011) 1.     Silks on Sunday 2.     Hoop on Thursday 3.     Open Gym every day of the week What I learned this week: do not do a “bullet drop” while wrapped in “diaper drop.”  Ouch!  This week’s silks class was great, it was a small class of only 4 [...]

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Gio’s Circus Diary – Week 2 of 8

by Giovanna Gatto
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Week 2 of 8 (First Session of 2011) 1.     Silks on Sunday 2.     Hoop on Thursday 3.     Open Gym every day of the week What a week! Sunday was a long, busy, but super fun training day – hoop rehearsal, duo rehearsal then silks class.  This week’s silks class we were up to five and [...]

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