L-Sit on Aerial Hoop is a quick, simple, beginner skill that presents a lot of great fundamental concepts. This skill teaches good grip habits, sliding on the hoop, shoulder stability, and pressing out through the legs into the support. We usually wait to teach this skill after students have had some time to build up grip strength and tolerance.
Don’t forget that this can be a very challenging skill for students grip strength and grip tolerance. With practice everything about this skill will get easier and eventually the skill becomes more of a transition shape than a final pose.
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Some of the most important aerial hoop skills, related movements, and prerequisites from our aerial video tutorial library that students should be very comfortable doing to succeed at L-Sit.
These are the most common mistakes we see with students when they are learning how to do the aerial hoop skill L-Sit and detailed directions on how to fix these problems to make the skill look and feel easy.
These similar aerial hoop skills and aerial drills are helpful to troubleshoot and help with problems. Students don't need to have mastered the L-Sit to work on these related skills and drills. These drills may help your students make important connections and answer the question "What am I doing wrong?".
These are some of our favorite ground drills for aerialists for L-Sit. They can be used as part of the ground warm up or as part of the aerial class teaching progression.
These are different variations of L-Sit. Students should be very comfortable with the current skill before working on these different or more advanced variations. They can be used for further exploration, managing students with different levels and adding variety to aerial hoop choreography.
These are the next steps we teach to our aerial hoop students after they’re comfortable with L-Sit. The next steps can be started right away and they lead toward specific future goals which are often the most advanced aerial hoop skills.
These are some of the more advanced hoop skills that build on the strength and control taught in L-Sit. They are not the next immediate steps, but rather long term planning goals.
These are aerial hoop sequences, transitions, and combinations that include the aerial skill L-Sit. They are fun, creative, and challenging sequences from our aerial video tutorial library.
