Overview, Learning and Teaching Being in Ropes

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1. A Question of Community formulates a critique against common teaching styles in rope and propose an alternative.
2. A Question of Gender (and a tango rant) addresses my experience of how gender norms structure the possibilities of learning and teaching being in ropes (I think about this through comparing ropes with tango).
3. What I Think I Do When I Teach and What I Would Like to Do sums up some present thoughts and wishes concerning my teaching practice in relation to ropes. This post also contains reflections on the teaching skills of some people who inspired me to think about rope bottoming so far, thus enabling this series of posts.
4. Communication in Suspension – on communication skills from a rope-bottoming perspective.
5. Breathing in Suspension – on breathing skills from a rope-bottoming perspective.
6. Muscle and Position Work in Suspension – on muscle and position work from a rope-bottoming perspective.

2 thoughts on “Overview, Learning and Teaching Being in Ropes”

  1. […] Addition: I forgot to add this earlier! In the comments, @Bergborg pointed me to @SansBlague’s excellent text post series on this topic, and they are brilliant and far more eloquent and comprehensive than I have managed to be above. It’s really exciting to see people talking about a shift towards cooperation, communication and appreciation of both top and bottom skills in rope, and it looks like @SansBlague and @Bergborg are putting the theory into practice. Wish I had the opportunity to go to one of their classes! Please do take a look at this excellent resource: Learning and Teaching Being in Ropes […]

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