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| - Have you wanted to explore your deeply hidden secretly fantastic trapeze skills? This is the place to do it. Grab the Groupon and prepare to climb, jump, fall, twist, and flip for a few hours with a good group of other very random people.
As a self-proclaimed "trapeze enthusiast in spirit", I fully expected half the class to be training, and the other half to be attempts to remember our training, getting up to swing once or twice. Call it a day, reflect on how poorly / awesome we did, and grab drinks back at the hotel.
This was...not the case. After 5 solid minutes of training (hold the bar, try and swing, try and tuck and flip once or twice) we were climbing the ladder up to the platform, and were fully expected to just jump off and try to be amazing.
Well, the learning-by-doing concept worked for most of us. We had a class of 12 or so people, and they harnessed us up, put us in an order, and...we were jumping.
The first few times...jump off, try and get your legs up and under. The next few times...do the same thing, but then let go, look backwards, lift back up, jump off. Maybe you flipped off at the end. Maybe you just let go. Either way, you are harnessed in with a net below, so even if you decided to completely let go mid-swing, you would land very bouncy-bouncy and safe-like, eager to try it again.
The skill level of our class varied, there were a few residents of Vegas that were regulars and were practicing trapeze on a completely different level than we were. Novice or pro - doesn't matter. The instructors will assess your skill level and provide the very encouraging guidance you need to get better with each swing. They were fantastic the whole time - I think we went an extra 45 minutes just because we were having that much fun. Even when you completely suck (you'll know it when you do it), they will provide fully positive and encouraging feedback. Each swing was captured on camera, so they could review your swing and show you what you did well and where you went wrong.
Even with a class of 12, I was able to get up there 5 or 6 times. The grand finale was the perfect execution of your swing, leg curl, and swing backwards to coincide with an instructor on another bar, ready to grab your hands a-la professional style, wherein you let go, and get swung around a little under their control before you drop.
Not everyone got there, i'd say about 70% of our class executed it. I don't mind saying I wasn't one of them, I just didn't get my legs up in time. It happens.
This is why there are more visits to Vegas, more Groupons, and more attempts at trapeze mastery.
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