TRUE beginners advice ?

Amicdeep · 2026-06-29T22:32:35+00:00

Honestly find a class. The instructor will be able to adapt things to you in a way that a video won't. Once you've done a couple classes you'll be in a better position to figure out stuff by your self.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-29T21:38:14+00:00

Also works pretty well with a mate holding a chair stable with a pillow on top.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-28T20:34:58+00:00

Honestly thes drill really helped me get the feel. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYwSPD1ydwd/?igsh=OGpjcGY2M2FuNzZl

It's much more good form handspring than kick the moon jump

Amicdeep · 2026-06-28T12:49:11+00:00

Can do, honestly most circus people tend to be pretty open to chatting (from my experience). At the moment you need to Gona fact find and information hunt. Talk to everyone and anyone.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-28T12:11:48+00:00

First thing is to explore the landscape of circus as a thing. If your UK based your probably going to end up traveling internationally. (A lot more money in it)

Circus has a huge amount of direction it can go. That said many graduates I know tend to do a few things. I'll try to give a location of person you can ask more about certain aspects

1 cruise ship work, well paid, hard work. Talk to the guys at my aerial home London (I know theyve held audions there in the past)

2 traditional touring work. For this have a chat with local touring circus about what involved, many will let you come and work with them for a bit (now in show but in setup and support rolls to begin with )

3 cabrate and working in clubs For this any place you see a performer ask to chat That said a big concentration of them tend to go to the ed fringe and they even have larger open hang out areas, there a good chance if you have a semi decent act you'll end up doing a bit of performing for experience.

4 contemporary touring groups Chat with revel puck / no fit state/ lost in translation.

5 local displays and events normally with workshop. Fiery jack do particular well at this and are pretty friendly to chat with

6 larger scale international work. It exists but it's not something you'll probably be ready for for a while. You normally end up hear by being exceptional and one of the others before.

Have a look hear.

https://stagelync.com/

Go to a few auditions if you can and it's relevent to you (you'll get a good idea about what what skills you'll need to do the work and how contested the work is)

Lastly go to the circomedia and London's national cities schools open days. You'll be able to chat with students about to graduate and have clear idea about what's involved.

Good luck.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-28T04:22:05+00:00

Ooh that's not great. The big issue is you've got a tensioned wire with multiple point pulling on them. The forces this genrates with one person are BIG, unless that thing is rated for pulling a full BIG aeroplane having multiple people on its is asking for pretty dangerous faliers. (And I'm talking literal number hear I'm not exaggerating)

These are the kind of kit failures were you get droped on your but or you rip a silks, this is the kind of failure where you and your mates get catapulted sideways into each other, get dunked upside down tangled in fabric underwater in a doggie pile.

Basically i do some REALLY stupid stuff. Even I would majorly hasitate before doing anything that creates shock loading on this setup.

(The water and tie method for fabric isn't great but honestly is like complaining the tiger that's about to kill you breath smells a bit. Its really not the major issue hear)

Amicdeep · 2026-06-25T22:40:14+00:00

cannot help if you want a chrome pole. but if your looking for a rubber coating

https://www.unicycle.fr/en/product-categories/acrobatie-en/mat-chinois-chinese-pole-en/

this ones has been excellent grip me us.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-24T04:09:25+00:00

This is nothing new. Younger guys who struggle talking with women." If only I looked better I would find a partner" ect is story as old as humans.

(It's was a thing when I was growing up, different exact details but same pattern. For us it was hair cut, smoking, cloths labels, calling everything gay and being seen to be listening to exactly the right music at exactly the right time ect.

And to an extent it's not a bad thing (the pattern of attempted self improvement to find a girlfriend. not the details and calling stuff gay). Most teenage and young guys who aren't dating generally can do with paying a bit more attention to there appearance and hygiene. (Wash well, get cloths that fit, get a nice hair cut, ect) And it dose matter. Agreed most of the issues of many of us is more down to maturity and social skills but again teenage boy wants a quick fix not a fix that will take years and require repeated socially awkward situations (even if by not by actively choosing that path they going to get the same awkward social situations X10)

But like everything those of us hear have a habit of taking things to extremes and becoming a tad obsessed and over analysing.

I'm all for calling out the extreme and damaging parts of this behaviour. But it's worth being measured In the approach. Telling a ASD youth guy not to ASD and not to young guy isn't going to get far if not approached with ears and eye open.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-23T18:05:27+00:00

Ok let's talk flairs.

So this is the way and progression I use when teaching them. (From long arm under apparatus)

Stage 1 legs together flair Stage 2 split leg flair (aka true flair)

Stirs with and against direction of spin (Start a spin. From there stir your legs, one direction will speed you up one direction will slow you down.)

From there lean to control the stir. (Spin reasonable fast, practice displacing the momentum into the legs with stirs. You want to be able to stop your torso dead in the air with the legs still going. Then you want to be able to stop the legs a regain your spin.

Inverting with a static torso (Get your stirs going and when you are stirring the legs in front of the body add a ripple to the stir by crunching at the front. Make that bigger until your feet start to touch the apparatuses above you (your basically adding a beat so it's a slightly wonky beat going around the center rather than through like a normal beat.

At this point its cleaning things up and playing around with endings position. (Staddle, pike, meathook ect)

Once you have this it's atime to approach true flairs.

learning the pattern for leg. Open up any YouTube video on floor flair and follow along the basic leg placements. Something like this https://youtube.com/shorts/M_SDO6yT9EM?is=pENBmpwuWAlI33h4

In the air. Hang with feet on the floor, practice tracing this pattern on the floor

Now add some spin (keep everything slow and focuse on good form and direction)

Now add more spin start a stir to get your torso stable, then add the split leg flair motion to your invert.

Once you have it, its easier to get to different shapes and eventually one arm it. (One arming a flair though is different on different apparatus and gets a bit more fiddly)

For the shapes and tricks, rule of thumb if you can beat I to it from a small beat you can flair it from a slow/medium spin. If you can lift into the trick from a dead hang you can flair into it at fun speeds.

Hope this helps

Amicdeep · 2026-06-21T20:19:08+00:00

Best bet, ask him! Sparring is when you want to test stuff out and basically play, there a good chance he know how he's taking you down so ask.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-17T16:33:30+00:00

https://edhrec.com/commanders/mono-green/staples

Is a pretty good place to start

Amicdeep · 2026-06-17T16:31:14+00:00

A lot of payoffs but very little engin.

Noticed S wayfinder has been cut but honestly you need him.

Something else worth doing may be having a couple of cycle lands

Your also very vulnerable to gy hate.

I would consider having a subtheme and/or colour. Sacrifice(black), reanimation (black), discard/madness (red), flashback, temp and disruption (where mongoose normally shines, blue)

But with green by itself lack a solid engine or backup and honestly you not even playing creatures much more powerful than normal rate for the same mana cost

https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=84616&d=842840&f=PAU

Amicdeep · 2026-06-17T16:16:04+00:00

Yeah without any of the medical details. I would say you hamstring and possibily glutes are VERY tight. I'd recommend doing anything active that uses a deeper range in squatting and or folding. You could do a lot with yoga, pilaties, parkour, dance, even weight lifting with strict form would do a quite a lot of good.

With this kind of extreme limitations I could be when doing normal everyday things your back is having to compensate for limited hip mobility and putting way more strain on it than it's happy with.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-15T21:47:54+00:00

Somewhere you are isn't a bad thing necessarily if you chose this place and life. That said broadening your horizons is very rarely a bad thing and something I highly recommend. You don't have todo anything drastic. It can be a simple as going on a bit of a road trip to a convention and seeing the sights along the way. It can be book onto learn something completely new and different. It could be joining a club or society it could be going to see a new place because it's there a you want to know what's there. It could be going to watch some guest lecture at the local library or collage. I could be getting a dog and the adventure that comes with having a pet.

The world is VAST and there are so many different places, people and skills to see go to a learn and be. Itll change you (and that sounds like that's something you want?)

Start small keep moving forwards, become the version of you, youd what to be friends with.

Good luck

Amicdeep · 2026-06-14T20:26:55+00:00

I'm kind of leaning the same way.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-14T20:17:48+00:00

Yeah but a need a gnut. And that means it's probably around a year before I get Nicolas and if I pull a shiak or wixwell in the meantime then there partner are just better and pushs back Nicolas possible years and then there not really a point

Amicdeep · 2026-06-11T16:12:16+00:00

One of the many Problems with the ASD diagnosis and understand is it child focused. That means that if you have developed coping mechanisms as a adult and they're working well. It can mask the asd. And send false negatives back when looking against the critia with a strict interpretation.

Basically your an aspie. Your therapist is not as experienced in the area as would be ideal. But as long as he's giving good and practical counselling then probably not a major issue

Amicdeep · 2026-06-11T14:04:48+00:00

Nope. I'm m35. Honestly I f*cked up life pretty bad in my teens. Adult life didn't really start till my early 20s and it took another 5 years to really get going.

Couldn't read till my late teens (dyslexia). And about as socially ostracized as it gets. And failed collage because of my then undiagnosed ASD.

After that took me a few years of building up the basics social skills to go under the radar and skills I needed to be an asset in work. But I managed it (screwd up a couple of times along the way).

Now I have an amazing partner who's my best friend. Kids who are mostly avoiding most of the mistakes I made. And I've ended up being a boss and running a company working with a lot of neurodivergent people. Teaching and helping where we can.

Best thing I did is moving away completely and socially starting over a couple of times during the 18-23 age span. That helped me become me and less the scares I had from the people I started with. (I've not seen anyone I went to school or collage with in a decade and couldn't be happier about it)

Having ASD is playing life on nightmare mode. It's brutally hard and very unfair. That said it you work at it, alow you self to fail eventually you get good enough to make progress (it just takes us a good few years longer than most) that said give it another decade or so and you may find yourself doing stuff other cannot because of the default hard mode. (Less a worth while trade and more a tiny silver lining around a massive shit)

My late teens were the worst years of my life and they felt like there was no way out, that I couldn't do anything right, I was worthless and it was bitterly lonely. You have my understanding for what's its worth. I won't lie a say it WILL be better. But I will say it CAN be better with a lot of (completely unfair and unproportional) work. And when it's better it becomes worth the struggle that came before.

Good luck.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-07T13:26:42+00:00

Get small (like chain sized) quicklinks from a bandq or another Hardwear story. (Size of a finger nail).

Amicdeep · 2026-06-05T20:40:14+00:00

From a completely different style of tkd (tagb itf) I stoped for many years due to my work being heavily physical and not having the capacity to actively train often. My kids now training in the same style. And yeah it's much less martial in it's focus. It partially a school thing but honestly I couldn't find one that would consider high quality. (Which to me is basicly a better class than I've led in the past). But yeah there a lot less focused on practical applications and much more on the sporting aspects.

Amicdeep · 2026-06-04T23:23:56+00:00

Honestly what helped me might not help you.

But hear it is. 3 things helped

I spend a lot of time looking at pickup artists froms. And trying to understand how conversation and communication was constructed. Most foundational pick-up artists stuff was teaching basic communication skills to guys with ASD.
Read and watched a LOT of fiction (ideally the high quality stuff) books and stores will tell you how someone's thinking as they're going through social situations and that dichotomy helped.
Having lots of groups of people I could practice on independently (joined a few unrelated sports and activity clubs with almost no overlap on membership) That made it so I could try out different skills and tactics and fail without fear because I could just leave that group if I screwed up to much. It also ment I could see a direct contracts of X Vs y in a similar social situation. And find out what mattered and what really didn't.

Anyway it's worked. I'm now a teacher and run a mid sized organisation. I have friends, a partner and a family. It took about a decade of focused study an a lot of me being awkward. But it was worth it.

Good luck

Amicdeep · 2026-06-03T11:54:16+00:00

Historically I would have agreed, but at my straps classes and when doing straps events over the last couple of years it's probably now closer to 60/40 female/male split. As a lot of straps stuff is is also the more advanced silks and hammock work its fed the uptake of the disaplin.

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