Standing Acro Workshop with Jumpai

Event Details

1. day – Intro to standing acrobatic and hand balance
Saturday, 1. June 2019
Time: 14.00 – 17.00h

2. day – standing acrobatic tricks
Sunday 2. June 2019
Time: 10.00 – 18.00h

PROGRAM
A weekend course in Bern on hand balance, partner acrobatics in L-Basing and Standing. This course will be a mix of theory and practice and will be focused on offering different perspectives towards helping learn acrobatic skills.
The course will be run two days with consisting of 2 – 3 hours intensive sessions.

Expect a wide range of exercises, from fun group work to smart progressions towards hand to hand and exiting acrobatics tricks. Focus will lie on exercises with a lying base to build up to standing tricks.

On your own:
Learn how to balance on your hands and how to kick, jump and lift to handstand. Develop strength, flexibility, control and confidence. Handstands are the basis of all acrobatic work and whether you want to excel on the floor or in the air, knowledge of handstand shape will improve your practise.

With a friend: From the most basic acroyoga floor movements through hand to hand and range of different standing acrobatic tricks. Working with a partner or a group you will develop trust, create amazing shapes and build sequences. Whatever your shape or size there is a role in partner balancing that will suit you. A wonderful and fun way to build strength and fitness.

TEACHER
Juampi (https://www.facebook.com/juampi.acroyoga) is an amazing acrobat and handstand lover. His range of acrobatic skills comes from different circus schools in South America. (Argentina, Chile, Columbia) Later he joined the acroyoga family and become an unique teacher of acroyoga.org.

REQUIREMENTS
1st day will be open to all levels.
The 2nd day will be more intermediate standing tricks. A minimum of one month of acro or other movement-related practice is recommended. Contact us if you have any question!
The workshop will be led in English mainly, but Danica can translate into (Swiss) German if necessary 🙂

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SKILLS COVERED
– Strength training elements to make your body smarter and stronger
– Alignment, balance and endurance in inversions
– advanced spotting techniques
-Blocking, explosiveness, flexibility and elasticity in movements
-Technical preparation exercises for foot-to-hand, hand-to-hand
– Standing acrobatics tricks and variations
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LOCATION:
– Outdoor or Gymnastikraum Ka-We-De, Jubiläumsstrasse 101, Bern

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INVESTMENT
CHF 40.-* / CHF 50.- Saturday ½ day
CHF 80.-* / CHF 100.- Sunday full day
CHF 110.-* CHF 130 full weekend
(*Member of Acroyoga Bern Verein and students)

Maximum of participants: 24
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Daniel Merz, Verein AcroYoga Bern, [email protected]