New Trapeze video

Ok, so as long promised. I asked a very nice fellow classmate in my last class to take a video of me working on my new trick. He had one of those fancy Flip video cameras so the picture is pretty good quality. Please follow the below link


http://sharing.theflip.com/session/9d83f6c5a5bd3a28ab836e1fcfba90d8/video/9742911

So this trick is called a Back-end Split off the 1st Rise.

Please pay attention to the following:

1. If you have watched any of my previous flying videos you will notice that my “Take-off” or how I jump off the board has changed. Not only am I now doing a one-handed take-off, where I start by holding the bar with my right hand and the riser with my left; bringing my left hand to the bar as I leave the board. But I am progressing in my skill enough that I am now doing a virtually un-supported take-off. Previously, the instructor on the board would hold me by the back of my safety harness to make sure that I left the board safely. Now his hand is poised in front of me just in case something should go horribly wrong. This is a big-deal because it’s a significant step towards becoming an intermediate flyer –right now I am still a beginner.

2. I am performing this trick off the 1st rise. In the video you can see that I am standing not flat on the board but on a bar in between the risers about 6 inches above the board. This gives me more height in my trick, which makes it prettier. Advanced students will go off the 4th or 5th rise and subsequently fly much higher.

3. This trick is called a back-end trick because on the “front” or when I first leave the board till I get to the apex I’m just swinging, I get into the trick (the split) on the back end, so when I swing backwards.
The trick still needs to work, you can hear my instructor yelling for me to “Big Hollow” –yeah I didn’t really hollow at all and the catch itself was a little sloppy. But as I keep saying it’s progressive.