Single Knee Hang on Aerial Hoop is a dramatic skill for choreography and a fundamental conditioning skill. Single Knee Hang is great for strengthening hamstrings and training tight body alignment. Training a solid single knee hang will make so many more advanced skills much easier to learn and master.
This tutorial covers a variety of progressions, spotting tips, and common mistakes. Single Knee Hang is a skill that we usually approach from many directions. We have our students work on it in isolation and we also have them work on skills that have one knee support and at least one other support. These related skills also benefit from students getting better at their single knee hang. So the path to mastering single knee hangs often involves working through a lot of other fun skills.
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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 Single Knee Hang.
These are the most common mistakes we see with students when they are learning how to do the aerial hoop skill Single Knee Hang 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 Single Knee Hang 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 Single Knee Hang. 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 Single Knee Hang. 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 Single Knee Hang. 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 Single Knee Hang. 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 Single Knee Hang. They are fun, creative, and challenging sequences from our aerial video tutorial library.
