Post by DestinyTwirler on Aug 14, 2008 21:10:46 GMT -8
I asked this about 3 years ago on DDN, but I thought it was worth asking again.
Where do you practice?
Do you twirl outside? If so what kind of ground is it? Smooth cement, asphalt, dirt, or something completely different? Are you shielded from the sun? If something covers your head how high is it?
Do you twirl inside? If so how big is the space and how high is the roof? Is it in a studio, gym, garage, bedroom, or somewhere altogether different? What’s the floor like?
You know the little allies behind grocery stores? That’s that what the place looks like where I took baton my whole life, and now that is where I teach. The private school I teach at used to be a grocery store in the 80’s, so the area where I teach is exactly how you would imagine. A long narrow little road. The ground is asphalt, but it isn’t rocky, it’s quite smooth actually. The biggest problem for me is that the ground isn’t flat. It makes it hard for my students to learn spins, but they manage. When we get into a gym at contests, on the flat glossy surface, they spin like crazy because they are so used to the uneven asphalt. The building is pretty tall so we are shielded from the sun most of the day. It gets very hot during my early morning classes, but after 12:00 the school starts to cast its shadow on us. There is one tree in the ally and it eats batons. Usually if you throw another baton at it as hard as you can, both of them will fall back down and everything will be okay. Towards the end of the ally there are two storm drains that also eat batons, but they don’t give them back. We’ve lost many to the drains over the years. Well, I think that pretty much describes my twirling space, so lets here about yours!
Where do you practice?
Do you twirl outside? If so what kind of ground is it? Smooth cement, asphalt, dirt, or something completely different? Are you shielded from the sun? If something covers your head how high is it?
Do you twirl inside? If so how big is the space and how high is the roof? Is it in a studio, gym, garage, bedroom, or somewhere altogether different? What’s the floor like?
You know the little allies behind grocery stores? That’s that what the place looks like where I took baton my whole life, and now that is where I teach. The private school I teach at used to be a grocery store in the 80’s, so the area where I teach is exactly how you would imagine. A long narrow little road. The ground is asphalt, but it isn’t rocky, it’s quite smooth actually. The biggest problem for me is that the ground isn’t flat. It makes it hard for my students to learn spins, but they manage. When we get into a gym at contests, on the flat glossy surface, they spin like crazy because they are so used to the uneven asphalt. The building is pretty tall so we are shielded from the sun most of the day. It gets very hot during my early morning classes, but after 12:00 the school starts to cast its shadow on us. There is one tree in the ally and it eats batons. Usually if you throw another baton at it as hard as you can, both of them will fall back down and everything will be okay. Towards the end of the ally there are two storm drains that also eat batons, but they don’t give them back. We’ve lost many to the drains over the years. Well, I think that pretty much describes my twirling space, so lets here about yours!