more than just sports

Juggling

Down with gravity! Up with levity! A beginner at juggling starts by throwing up three balls and keeps them up by juggling. But that is not the end: clubs, rings, torches, diabolos, pois, cigarboxes and devilsticks! Both beginners and advanced jugglers are welcome to have their fun, exchange tips and tricks and juggle together.
Note: During the summer we meet at 7 pm to juggle outdoors. The meeting point will be announced in the course. At the start of term training takes place as usual in the sports hall of Humboldt-Gymnasium. It is located at the corner Laube/Rhein on the first floor.

• Requirements: none

• Services provided: instruction, help and safety support

• Equipment required: comfortable sportswear, personal juggling equipment; beginners can use equipment provided by the coach

Please note: There is no training during school holidays (autumn, Christmas)!

Aerial Ballet on Silk for Beginners

Aerial ballet on silk is a new form of aerial acrobatics, whose fascination derives from its combination of static figures and dynamic elements. The training is suitable to improve coordination, flexibility and in particular muscular endurance. In the course you will not only learn the technique to climb the silk, but also various holding- and falling figures.

• Requirements: none

• Services provided: instruction, support and safety stand

• Equipment required: comfortable sportswear

Please note: There is no training during school holidays (autumn, Christmas)!

Advanced Aerial Ballet on Silk

In this advanced course you will learn various falling figures and more difficult techniques, together with a general improvement of skills and repertoire. In addition we work on muscular endurance and your expression.

• Requirements: mastering of climbing and foot knotting
• Services provided: instruction, support and safety stand
• Equipment required: comfortable sportswear

Please note: There is no training on Saturday, 9th December 2017 due to Uni-Liga.

Free training Aerial Silk & Hoop

This course is meant for everyone, who actively performs aerial ballet on silk cloth/rope or trapeze and wants to improve their skills individually on a second occasion in the week. The course concept is to provide a free space which you bring to life with your ideas, imagination and mutual interaction. We provide and build-up apparatus and mats for your safety. There will be no instruction and supervision by us, the training is organized entirely by you!

• Requirements: artistry experience

• Services provided: buildup of apparatus, safety mats, vertical silk/rope, trapeze

• Equipment required: comfortable sportswear

Please note: There is no training during school holidays (autumn, Christmas)!

Free training acrobatics

The course is aimed at all those who are actively practicing acrobatics and would like to continue to do so independently and are looking for a second training date per week. The course is designed as a free space and lives through your ideas, imaginations and your mutual exchange. We make sure that the equipment and mats are safely set up.

The training is not instructed, but is your responsibility. However, there will NOT be any instruction or supervision!

• Prerequisites: Experience in acrobatics

• Services provided: Supervision (without consistent guidance), mats

• Equipment: Comfortable sportswear

During school vacations (autumn, Christmas) the school halls are closed.

Aerial hoop

Aerial hooping revolves around a large metal ring suspended in the air. This aerial acrobatic discipline is best known from the circus. In this course, you will learn the basic elements of the discipline, which we will then combine into beautiful dance combinations. No previous acrobatic experience is necessary - we start from scratch.

• Prerequisites: None

• Services provided: Tariner, Hoop

• Equipment: Long sportswear

Acrobatics course for advanced learners

“An acrobat should combine the strength of a weightlifter, the endurance of a long-distance runner, the skill of a juggler and the grace of a dancer.” (E.J. Kiphard)

The course covers three acrobatic topics in three blocks:

    L-Base Flows: Fluid transitions between different figures
    Pops and icarias: Dynamic transitions between L-base figures. Building up to throws.
    Standing acro: foot to hand, hand to hand, dance acro

 In addition to the course, there will be free training. There you can practise what you have learned in the course, try out your own exercises and exchange ideas with other acrobats.  
Equipment: Clothes in which you can move well and in which you don't get tangled up, optional chalk
Note: The gymnasium of the Humboldt Gymnasium is located on the second floor of the corner building Webersteig, Untere Laube. Access is via the outside staircase on the Webersteig side.

• Requirements: Motivation, basic skills including the following techniques: chair, figurehead, airplane, shoulder stand, Buddha?

• Services provided: instruction, help and safety support

• Equipment required: comfortable, rather tightfitting sportswear, if required a towel and wrist supports

Flowerstick

Juggling with the flower stick falls into the category of flow arts. We juggle (initially) with one stick and look at different techniques, tricks, and movement sequences. In addition to the technical aspects, we will also let our creativity run wild to music. The beauty of this discipline is that everyone can discover and develop their own strengths, whether they are more technical or more dance-oriented—let's flow!

This course is aimed more at beginners who have little or no experience with the flower stick. However, advanced participants who simply want to flow together are also very welcome.

• Requirements: none – just enjoy juggling, being creative, and/or dancing
• What you'll get: technical basics, tricks, inspiration
• Equipment: clothes you feel comfortable in and can move around in easily, preferably with tight-fitting sleeves, your own flower stick or devilstick if you have one.