In our curriculum, Candlestick on Aerial Hoop refers to a type of leg support where one knee is bent and the other leg is straight with a foot flag. Each leg provides support. Often the knee hook is holding the majority of the weight and the foot flag is keeping the hoop locked into position or providing balance, but this isn’t always the case.
Skills with a Candlestick support are usually more advanced skills on Aerial Hoop, because they typically require a lot of strength and awareness. This tutorial will cover the basics of the Candlestick support, but basic doesn’t necessarily mean easy.
This tutorial covers a number of different candlestick variations, but they all have easy and direct entrances and exits. We like to get our students familiar with the concept of a candlestick support before they try some of the more advanced variations with complex entrances and exits.
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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 Candlestick: Basics.
These are the most common mistakes we see with students when they are learning how to do the aerial hoop skill Candlestick: Basics 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 Candlestick: Basics 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 Candlestick: Basics. 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 Candlestick: Basics. 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 Candlestick: Basics. 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 Candlestick: Basics. 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 Candlestick: Basics. They are fun, creative, and challenging sequences from our aerial video tutorial library.
