Today morning after a long interview for the COG magazine on my trick cycling background and fixe gear bikes I went to my first class of flying trapeze. It was at the Espana Streb institute in Brooklyn.
They also had space for other aerial disciplines and people were practicing.
The flying trapeze was fun but less exciting than expected. It was not too difficult for me with my long gymnastics background and anyway the uneven bars and flying between had always been my favorite element. The class was first doing swings and then some figures and preparing for the fly. Then a catcher went on the other trapeze and actually caught me. Of course for this easy one there is no real feeling of flying because I just take my hands off my trapeze and he catches my arms. Here is the video of my fourth flying trapeze back end split with catch.
I will go again tomorrow and hopefully learn something more. Too bad that there is no school in Beijing.
Then I rode fast to get back to Manhattan to be part of the first screening of bike films. The bicycle film about me called „Riding in the Circle“ was screened in this session.
My friends had come to watch this movie. After the screening we went to a nearby cafe to have some lunch together.
When I went back to the movie theater the was a gathering of girls that were about to start the „girls only“ alleycat bike race. This was a picture before the handout of the manifest with the addresses of the checkpoints.
Then the girls checked the maps on where the alleycat checkpoints are.
Then the girls had to place their bikes on the opposite side wall.
Then there was a picture with all alleycat girls before the bike race started. These are the cool and fastest bike girls of NYC. Keep the rubber side down all the time.
The guys on the other hand were hanging out in the movie theater. I watched a lot of movies today of which some were quite disappointing.
