Flares and Center Spins

Come learn to use the momentum of the spin to make your flare feel easy-breezy, or lock into your center spin. We’ll learn how to maximize your power and speed by working with and through the horizontal and vertical axes of the spin.

When your flare is executed well, everything else will become easier. Unlock skills ranging from flare-to-straddle to flare-to-mushu by finessing your understanding of the pathways, timing, and specific muscular activation that will launch your hips skyward.

We’ll explore the ways that our center spin and flare use the same forces in opposite ways, and finish by learning how to stack the skeleton to become a blur, touching on vertical nutcracker/candlestick for students who are ready.

This is an open level class, so I will work with you on the specifics of your goals while offering my insights on the fundamental techniques that apply to any flare or spin.

Swinging

Want swings that feel like flying?

Come learn to soften the impact on your shoulders, accelerate the power of your beat, and shoot your body into the clouds. We’ll begin by learning drills on the floor to protect the rotator cuff, properly lock in the core, and use explosive kicking and pulling power. We’ll start swinging by working on front/back and front/front (aka side/side) beats on one or two arms. For students who are ready, we can progress towards dislocs, inlocs, and soleils. This is an open level class, where the fundamentals will be put to use with each progressive skill.