Marlon Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 This is my video application to the New England Center for Circus Arts, hopefully I'll be accepted to their professional development program starting up this september. I want to thank coach sommer and everyone else in the gymnastic bodies community for providing such a great resource for training information because I know that if I hadn't found this site I never would have gotten anywhere near as far as i have in my training. And yea, I did take the music at the beginning from Yuval's demo video which Ido Portal posted here sometime back http://vimeo.com/4157494 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Rawley Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I liked it. Congratulations on your progress and best wishes in the continuation of your career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvaro Antolinez Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Great!!! I Loved this video is inspirational and also very instructive, in a way that permits to see a great level of progression but still you can see how to get there following coach sommers and Ido teachings!!!.(some times when you look at coach´s gimnasts or Ido videos I just feel sub-human :shock: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Smith Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Very nice Marlon. Can I ask did you have any previous experience (gymnastic, handbalancing or other) prior to joining gymbodies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikael Kristiansen Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Nice! I am also applying to circus school this year! It seems like we are doing similar stuff; I do handbalancing and porting as well. I have trained circus for about a year, the first 5 months under an american coach. I did a lot of breakdance before that, so I had a reasonable fundament for learning handbalancing. Your handstands look nice and you are pretty strong and flexible. Seems like you have good potential, I hope you get in! I applied to the circus program in Stockholm, so I am probably going on audition in june.For your 1 arm handstand, be careful not to twist in the hips. It will come with time, but try to imagine that you are only moving on a line sideways, so that your legs dont become diagonal to the line. A good exercise is to train to hold the supported 1 arm(with all 5 fingers first, and eventually 1 or 2) for a long sets to build stamina and strength.Here is an old clip of some of my handstand work. The clip is rotated sideways, though. I will try to upload a new one soon.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTY5t91N ... re=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlon Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 No, I didn't really have any background in gymnastics or hand balancing, at least not anything formal. I started messing around with hand balancing about 2.5 years ago, after about a year just playing around with it I had about a 15 second handstand hold, and the next half year or so before I found gymnastic bodies i started actually trying to practice consistently, I've been taking gymnastics classes once a week for several months now too.Thanks for the tips handbalancer, my OAH definitely needs a lot of work, no where near as good as yours, I wish I had that kind of control XD, I'm always surprised by the how much different what I'm doing looks than it feels; with the twisting in the OAH and even with my straddle press, I had no idea that one of my feet trailed behind so much during it. Good luck with your audition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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