Trapeze Austin

Jul 15, 2010 by Kelly    2 Comments    Posted under: Class Act

When I saw a coupon for a half-off $90-trapeze class through 365 Fun Things to Do, I imagined myself fluidly flying through the air and effortlessly performing a catch on my first try. It didn’t really go that way for me, though it did go that way for a friend who accompanied me. But she does have upper body strength that I lack (she’s an archeologist who spends a lot of her time digging holes), and half my weight, and she confessed that she’s always dreamed of running away to the circus.

Well she’d make the cut, but I won’t be running away to the circus any time soon. (They wouldn’t take me.) I couldn’t even lift my legs and wrap them around the stick and hang after 4 tries, which is step 1….

Trapeze is harder than it looks, but it’s still hella fun, even if you sadly discover, like me, that you’ve lost your ab muscles somewhere along the 40-hour-a-week-office-job trail. Though I was disappointed in my own non-ability, I was not disappointed in this class offered by Trapeze Austin. Even at full price it would be a bargain. You get 2 hours of training, and you’re up on the platform performing your first leg tuck and hang (unless you’re me) within the first 20 minutes. You do this while being strung from safety lines and over a very sturdy net, of course. The most dangerous part is the climb up the narrow ladder and holding on with white knuckles as you try to chalk your hands. The rest isn’t so bad after that first “hep” and drop. Here is a video of my prodigy friend performing a catch on her very first try.

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