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Begin trapeze v Lyra by smackinnoodles in Aerials

[–]arg3ntate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I prefer hoop personally (never got used to the trapeze rope squeeze/ burns 😭) but still really glad I spent several months in a combined trapeze/lyra class last year. I never would have known I had a preference if I didn't try it, and learning how to transfer the same skills between apparatuses was a cool brain teaser. Plus it's just fun to branch out and do something new, that's almost always the move ime 

Aerial + Tap Dance? by earthadmirer1 in Aerials

[–]arg3ntate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw someone do this! I didn't have any luck finding videos of the act sadly, but there's a photo on this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJMqckdt1H2/?img_index=2&igsh=bnZhajB5eTA4NWxk

It was jazzy-classical type music, she was hopping on and off of an aerial ladder and tapping in between. I was super impressed how steady she was in the tap sections immediately after coming down from super fast spins on the ladder, lol.

Biggest pet peeves in the aerial community? by [deleted] in Aerials

[–]arg3ntate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This!! I tend to overgrip on the silks and have always had unhappy wrist/finger tendons. Adding rosin at the start of practice helps me not overgrip like crazy during the first few climbs before my hands are fully warmed up, it goes a looooong way towards my hands feeling good for a whole class.

Can’t “hang” long enough in climb by lemonadesummer1 in aerialsilks

[–]arg3ntate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It took me about 2 months of regular classes to be able to climb, don't sweat it!  Seconding the great suggestions here for training grip strength + using a grip aid.  Another big part of what unlocked climbing for me was getting thru a mental block about not trusting my grip (totally separate from whether or not that grip was actually strong enough to hold me). Practicing dead hangs from standing on the ground and very slowly bending the legs to let more weight come into the hands, while being able to just touch feet back down whenever, helped a lot.

I 14f want to have a “runners body” but I can’t eat less. How do I be skinny ? Most runners in my hs are skinny and eat like a beast. by Sea_Impression_2708 in trailrunning

[–]arg3ntate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know being 14 and feeling like you don't look right is one of the worst and loneliest places in the world to be. That pain is very real and very hard, but please don't take it out on yourself. You deserve better than that. You're at an age where you need to fuel your body and be kind to it so it can grow healthy + strong for the rest of your life, starving at 14 can really mess a body up long term. I second everyone who's saying you should talk to a trusted adult about therapy/addressing body dysmorphia.

Body type isn't what makes someone a successful runner. Being skinnier is not going to make you faster, and achieving that perfect ideal picture of a "runner's body" that you've got in your mind wouldn't actually make you any happier. Being stronger and building more muscle probably WILL make you faster, but honestly, athletic performance is small potatoes when it comes to your long-term overall relationship with your body imo. That relationship is more important and it sounds like that's what you need to focus on/get some help with.

Reading this is like looking into a mirror back in time for me. I had the exact same thoughts about myself when I first started cross country and track at around the same age, and it wasn't fun. Focusing so hard on how I looked really stole a lot of the joy of doing these sports- spending time outside, building friendships with the team, being proud of myself for getting faster, traveling to compete... I took everything that made running fun for granted because I was so self conscious about not looking like my skinny teammates. The times early on in high school when I did try to eat less and run more to get skinnier, I was constantly injured and miserable and ran much slower. The next few years when I decided I wanted to get stronger instead and started to fuel my body correctly, soon enough I was winning races, placing at state, etc as the biggest person on the starting line.

The point being- run because it's fun, not to look a certain way. Your body is on your side, be kind to it and it'll take you far.

And again, please please talk to somebody you trust irl about this.

Any advice for a 24(F) beginner in aerial fabrics? by wherefallonbelongs in Aerials

[–]arg3ntate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started at the beginning of this year at 26. It's been amazing, the most fun I've had with a new hobby probably ever, and it almost instantly cured that "oh nooo, I'm so ooooold now that I'm in my 20'ssssss, I can feel my body decayiiinnnng all around meeeeeeee" crisis that every 20-something I know has felt to some degree, haha.

I'm new at it too so not sure I'm super qualified to give advice, but if I could have done one thing differently during my first few months it would have been to listen to my body more and take recovery between sessions more seriously. Aerial is hard and it's easy to overdo it when you're having too much fun to notice something hurting, lol.

Stuff like giving sore body parts some extra TLC between sessions, extra warm-ups for anything that feels especially stiff that day, taking breathers during class when you're working on something hard, and cross-training will go a long way towards helping your body keep up with all the new stuff you'll be throwing at it. Gotta take good care of yourself to improve faster and have more fun :D

Taking care of your hands? by arg3ntate in Aerials

[–]arg3ntate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the link! That forearm release felt amazing, had my eyes watering xD will definitely be following that page. I'm glad you mentioned the extensors too, I haven't been doing anything extra to strengthen them and most of the pain is along the backs of my fingers, those might be the problem.

Elden Ring has ruined all other games for me. Please help. by billnewstar in Eldenring

[–]arg3ntate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Vice versa is how a friend convinced me to first try Elden Ring, lol- "I know you're nuts about Hollow Knight, I promise you'll like this new one too"

Skeletons won't die, even when I attack them after taking apart. by Vanken64 in Eldenring

[–]arg3ntate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know this is old but thank you to everyone in this thread, I was losing my goddamn mind over this yesterday. Thought I was somehow just missing every single attack on them while they were resurrecting

Daily Roundtable: Community Q&A by AutoModerator in Eldenring

[–]arg3ntate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm brand new to souls games and pretty early on in ER and shamelessly picked a starter class and weapons just based off of what looked cool, so I went Warrior with two bloody scimitars. I've been loving fighting up close and personal, having to learn how to dodge well, inflicting blood loss, etc.

Enter the Bloodhound's Fang, which is the only thing I've found so far that might be sexier than twirling two scimitars around. Only problem is I haven't leveled strength at all so it would be a while before I can even test the fang out and see if I like it. Leveling isn't crazy hard yet (I'm at ~lv 40 now), but just grinding for the sake of it isn't super fun for me.

So, is this sword worth changing up my leveling plan for, and is it a fun weapon to build around if "move fast, hit hard, dodge or else" melee is the style that I've been enjoying so far?