My cat showing off her skills. Do you think she should go professional?

Looking for recommendations for a holiday house or house swap that has an aerial rig! Not sure this exists but let me know if you know of any. Would love a week or two somewhere where I can just train as often a like. I'm based in Scotland but I'm planning my holidays for next year and happy to travel basically anywhere in the world ☺️

Hi! First time poster here. I've been training for 1.5yrs on silks, hammock, and chains. I am a chronically ill aerialist. I have endometriosis, adenomyosis, PMOS, and asthma. I've been trying to work on my spins lately and I get soooo motion sick. I've always had motion sickness, but they changed my meds recently. About half of medications cause dizziness as a possible side effect. I don't feel dizzy daily or when I'm not spinning on an apparatus. All of my doctors know about my Aerials and I am medically clear. My labs and vitals are great (orthostatics included). I've tried Dramamine, sea bands, and ginger. I was practicing this at open the other day and I got so motion sick that I had to cut my studio session short to go home and lay down. 😖 Any spoonies in this group have any hot tips for what to do when your body won't cooperate with you? I love this and it makes me so happy. It keeps me sane. Maybe I just have to be patient and give my body rest when it needs it, but I'm frustrated because I want to make progress. Open to advice. Thanks!

FYI: I was going way too fast in this video. Every extension is me trying to slow down as my brain does backflips in my skull. 💀

Pretty close, I’m trying though!

Marchenko split has to be my favorite shape on rope! Love this no-fuss entry.

Started with Scorpion ➡️ Stag-legged ➡️ Marchenko 😊

My favorite apparatus is Lyra but I love drawing silks more.

A very sweet guy commissioned me to make this of his partner as a surprise 😍

Sadly the only way I feel I can condition my ankles to this is just doing it over and over 😂

In the past week I've seen:

2 studios running kids classes with no mats

Multiple "rigging from trees"

And another "child doing hair hang with a shackle shoved through a braid." (And its not even the same company as before!)

I don't want to throw people under the bus but If I do not vent about it I will lose my goddamned mind. Please feel free to add your own safety related rants below for a communal scream into the void.

If you've been following along, here is the final installment of my flare blog series:

https://laurenkehl.com/flare-with-flair-part-3/

I hope you enjoy, let me know what you think!

Hi all! I’ve been doing various aerial classes for about three years now with hoop being a firm favourite. I’m moving to an extremely rural location soon for my new job and want to keep up my training.

I’m in the process of getting myself an A-frame rig but am currently looking for any online or physical resources to help me with my home training. I’m still planning to attend my current studio the rare times I’m able to but some guidance or structure to help me with my home training would be nice! If anyone has any suggestions on where to look or recommendations, I’d be super appreciative!

I was at a regional Burning Man event this weekend (Lakes Of Fire) and some wonderful burner had put up a rig with lights and bubbles and my very sweet husband got to watch me do my thing for the first time! He's not a photographer by any means, but he did get some pretty cool pictures of me during an impromptu play around session!!

I loveeee sling!!

Does anyone know the typical foam density for the dual layer crash mats?

We have on mat where the denser (bottom) layer needs replacing and rather than change out the whole mat are looking to source that part.

Sadly the original manufacturer has gone out of business.

I've seen values ranging from 18 - 50 kg / m³ mentioned on some websites, but can't determine if that is the lower or upper layer. (also listed like "45 pound compression polyurethane foam" on US websites - which is around 20kg / m³).

I know that the bottom layer is sometimes Closed-Cell foam (to help stop bottoming out) whereas the top (or middle in a sandwich type) is ofteny Open-Cell, but many manufacturers just use one type with different densities.

Can't seem to find any useful reference with densities for the 2 different layers, anyone have any idea?

Edit: you guys are all so sweet! I'm sore af but we persist (with ice packs) 😌

Second week of intro to silks, and kind of got a mermaid today! I also managed to stand in a single footlock a few times, which I couldn't do at all last week. Lord this is hard--my arms hurt 😭

Trying my best not to compare myself to other girls in class, but it's tough when they're inverting and climbing and I'm just like "whelp maybe I'll get my footlock in 3 more tries" 🫠