Powered by. Badges Report an Issue Terms of Service. Co-production practitioners network A network for co-production practitioners. Blogs Forum. Co-production Email Dige. Simply circus contortion handbook of nonprescription Added by Anna on March 30, at View Albums. Simply circus contortion handbook of nonprescription. The name refers to both the apparatus and the performance. Quidam was the ninth stage show produced by Cirque du Soleil. It premiered in April and has been watched by millions of spectators around the world.
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It can take a month to reach the same level. So if you can't set aside some time each day to exercise don't start practicing at all and miss the best experience of your life! No matter who you are if you only do what's told in the instructions you will be able to do most or everything shown and you'll be hooked in no time. Already after one week you will see results and be amazed. The most interesting thing you'll find out quick is that your brain won't understand what's happening.
Never underestimate the strength of the mind! If you close your eyes and do a backbend or split or which position you want to do you'll be amazed and pleased over that you can do it so well and maybe how deep it is the second you open your eyes. That gives an extreme rush and is one reason why most get addicted. Only this feeling is something making it worth to try. Someone once said that eating is believing and it maybe sounds silly, but it's the truth.
There are as many recommendations on what to eat as ways to train. Some say become a vegetarian, but I don't agree. You can continue to eat meat, but not as much as before and avoid fat as much as possible.
That means continue eating what you ate before, but in normal proportions and with a little bit more awareness of what you eat. Listen to your body and most important of all eat healthy.
If your body asks for fruits, eat fruits and so on. You'll also soon find out that you'll quite automaticly change your habits. Something I recommend is to eat fruits, hazelnuts and a cup of tea for breakfast. You can use all kinds of spices, but try to avoid salt as much as possible this will be difficult in the beginning, but after some time you won't want salt to any kind of food, because it will taste awful.
Except for that eat berries, sea food and honey. Also try not to eat for hours before you exercise. Doing a backbend or a frontbend with a full stomach isn't recommended and can result in you throwing up. Also try not to drink alcohol and absolutely never smoke. If you start to train and drink alcohole even if not a big amount or smoke just one cigarette you will feel that your training will feel more difficult and you'll maybe not have the same range of movement the next day.
The result of this will be that you'll loose weight to what was your teenager average weight, the blood preasure will get lower and the same with the colesterole. You will feel much better, think much better and it's much easier to practice.
The eating habits above remind much of what different yoga books recommend and contortion is very similar to yoga. The same food was also eaten by people in the stone age as well as today by the people on the island of Kitava where the living conditions are similar to the ones in the stone age. Many times the people there are very strong, flexible and your average day heart disease doesn't exist there. The difference to what I mentioned above, except for the alcohol, is that they also avoid sugar, milk or cheese.
However i n the end you decide what to eat and drink and these were only some healthy thoughts and recommendations to help you on the way.
The exercises will make you hungry, but that doesn't mean you need to eat more. There are many different clothes to wear while practicing, but the rule depending on where you are is the less the better. To wear loose fitting attire is often recommended, but unitards or catsuits are much better and work very well both for men and women.
Most dancers, contortionists and gymnasts wear them and they give many benefits compared to other clothes when fitted perfectly to your body. Jazz pants and a top, shorts, bikinis and similar, can also be good, but they need to be tight fitting and if you use such attire the place where you exercise MUST be well heated! Again it's important that your clothes don't disturb you in the exercises or restrict your movement in any way.
As this handbook isn't writtein for new beginners only, but also for professionals, it's worth pointing out that your clothes also give a great impression and can lift the act to a different level while performing. Many times catsuits with metal or wet looks can be the excellent choi c e as they don't restrict the movement, but also help the audience to see you better if the lightning is poor or you want to use various kinds of effects.
Also they are cheap. In a circus tent or out in the open it can be worth not to forget that you need to be warm. It's better to be warm and sweat than freeze and risk injury due to that the well-effects of the warm up wear off. When it comes to footwear you should also invest in pointe shoes or other shoes as pointing your feet as many exercises are more effective when done en pointe.
Many dancers, gymnasts and professionals heartily recommend those made by Capezio. You'll find more information about it in the other leg exercises page. There has been quite many mails from ballet dancers recommending prolonged daily wear of ballet boots while not dancing or exercising in order to train balance, the feet's flexibility and strength and to be able to stay en pointe for as long as needed.
It may be true. See more about that in the ballet boots page. However, if you're to wear this type of apparel on a daily basis always remember to stretch the feet, to do the point exercises, among those the ballet positions. This has to be done daily in order to allow the feet to keep their strength and flexibility. Otherwise prolonged wear more than hours a day may damage your feet. I have received descriptions, pictures and videos from professionals using this method, lacing their waist as much as 25 cm , except for toilet needs, exercising and performance.
The exercises they do are the advanced ones from the schedule and according to what I can see the contortion training makes it easier for them to tight-lace rather extremely as well as the tight-lacing help s them to get more limber faster and most have been able to fold their backs a little bit over a year after beginning!
One of the reasons can be that the corset simulates the effect to the body of a deep backbend or a backfold where the organs are very much compressed and displaced and the ability to breathe deeply is reduced.
The corset wearer's bodies has adapted to this due to the constriction and therefore the positions involving backbends are much easier to do than normally. As some corsets, so called pipe-stems, lengthen the spine, this also makes it easier to bend it in all directions. I haven't seen any documentation on this before, so I keep this open for discussion.
Also the enviroment in the room can be important. It's obvious since it's very important to keep the well effects of the warmup while exercising. Of course it's easier to breathe and not to need to sweat while doing exercises in a cold room, but you risk injuring yourself as the well-effects of the warm up wear off very quickly. Again I would like to point out that you always should remember to be warmed up before performing and if your performance is to last longer periods always be properly clothed.
How to follow the exercise schedule. Initially before stretching out there are some things you should do if you want to get good results from the exercises and most important of all, don't want to injure yourself. This is very important, no matter whether you can sit on your shoulders, do the best oversplits in the world or are a new beginner. A good warm up can be any activity that will make your blood circulate like running around a little bit, maybe in stairs and then first doing the exercises lightly stretching to where you can get without feeling that the muscles get tense.
This means no real stretching, but during several repeats you go to the the most flexible position where you feel comfortable, but not further! Many recommend doing the yoga sun greeting rapidly repeatedly until you are warm. The warmups promote circulation, respiration and general loosening of joint bindings. Without warming up you will most likely get hurt! Another thing worth to remember is that many things that you do during the day can be done in a flexible way.
Why not bend forward with legs straight when you're going to tie your shoe laces or maybe chat, read books or watch TV while in a split, oversplit or backbend, backfold when you get there. You will feel very healthy of this and at the same time you will prevent any loss of flexibility during the day.
This will also make you more ready for the more serious exercises. However don't forget to stay warmed up. If you're not flexible at all before you begin using these exercises I would recommend to do some easy stretching exercises or easier yoga asanas for a month. Some basic flexibility won't hurt and it will be much easier to do even the easiest exercise.
If you aren't strong in your back you will also need to to strenghten it, so you can return to an upright position after a backbend. One way is to lie on your back on the top of a gym horse, couch or bed with someone sitting on your lower legs, with your upper body overhanging the edge and bending back down and then up again. Another way is to lie across two soft chairs supported by your shoulders and hips and flex your back.
Both these exercises will need someone to assist you initially. After warming up you're ready to do some serious stretching.
The exercises are built up like a very easy looking program where the level increases with the number of the exercises. D o all exercises till you reach the most advanced exercises you can do for each group of muscles.
You will feel which exercises that correspond to which muscle group. If you want to do all the exercises this will take approx 3 hours. As you advance you can skip some of the easier preparing exercises, but always ask us, or if you have one, your coach.
Instead such exercises can be used as a part of your warm up. If you are a newbie don't do more advanced exercises than you can handle. Do the exercises you are good at and those that are difficult, but that you still can manage to some extent. They are supposed to be a challenge and will help you improve. That's the way you get results.
On the other hand if you go to fast and do exercises that are far too difficult for you to handle you might end up injuring yourself.
The exercises are set so that the easiest come first and then the level of advancement increases the further you go. Always begin from the first exercise and work towards the more advanced. When you've succeeded with the exercise you're doing then move along to the next exercise.
Continuing like that in time you will be able to do all of them and then it's good to do as many of them as possible. After each session write down which exercises you've done in a notebook. This way you'll know what you've done the day before, but you'll also be able to see how you're advancing. The way to see whether you shouldn't do an exercise is that it's too difficult to do.
Then don't do it - yet , but do do it when you're ready for it! Yes, I'm repeating myself, but this is very important and I don't want you to injure yourself!
The pictures are to show how the exercises are to be done, but also to show how it will look when maximum flexibility in the exercise is reached. Don't worry if you can't do them as good as the persons in the pictures. Instead use the most advanced pictures to set your goal.
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