Aerial Class Structure

Prior to having surgery, I was brainstorming ideas about how to change up my aerial teaching style to implement a strategy for injury prevention. I dubbed this technique the "post warm up cooling phase training theory" in my recent blog post: Aerial Silks Teaching Technique: The Mid-Class Warm Up? I've decided that once I return to teaching my aerial class, I am going to use a new format for my teaching that makes use of a class structure that keeps particular areas of the body warm for continuous training and injury prevention.  Since I work best with putting my ideas into writing and working with a format, I've decided to draft out a plan that I can easily enter key elements into based on the skills being worked on for any given class. 


MOVEMENT THEORY INJURY PREVENTION VERSION 1

• WARM UP: 5-10 minutes head to toe dynamic movement
• CONDITIONING: Climb Drills
• STRETCH: Mix of dynamic and static based stretches specific to the body areas for skills section
• SKILLS (The following steps may be repeated for each newly taught skill)
• Learning: Skills are taught first by observing instructor
• WARM UP: 2 minute head to toe total body dynamic movement
• STRETCH: Additional for any areas of focus that cause excess strain particularly for the shoulders/splits skills
• Active: Students perform new skill set
• POST SKILLS CONDITIONING: Targets areas not within realm of previous skills focus
• COOL DOWN: Light mix of head to toe dynamic with heavy static stretches