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Buying aerial hoop
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nothing ever comes up for me when I search No tab lyra
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ah, nevermind. I see spitfire does.
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I've been emailing back and forth with someone from Fight or Flight Ent. and it looks like I'll be ordering my no tab lyra from them!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fight-or-Flight-Ent/136225323107160?ref=br_tf
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AG I have used the no tab lyras from spitfire. I like them. Nice and lightweight. Never rigged one double point though. How do you keep the slings from sliding together at the top? I get how it might work for a tippy rig. I wouldn't think that taping and sling would provide enough traction to keep my weight from pulling the slings together. Granted, I am not in anyway a person who knows anything about ring.
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I have used no tab – two points of span sets and they never moved 🙂
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That is good to know. For ease of rigging, I have been thinking about lyra, but I didn't want to commit to tabs. I think in the end, double tab would be something I enjoy a lot because I could transfer a lot more of my trapeze skills to the apparatus. But there's something so nice and clean about a single point.
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The great thing about double point hoops is that you can hang it as a single point as well. I hung my double point lyra as a single point off of my 8ft ceiling to practice. I screwed a 4" eyebolt into the ceiling stud and it was really secure for me. Have an engineer inspect your house to be absolutely safe.
This site offers free shipping anywhere in the USA on Aerial Hoops and they are great
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I have a no tab lyra. Right now it's rigged as a single point and hasn't moved. I would think double point (haven't tried that yet) would be less likely to move.
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I’m currently at a studio that does not tape its Lyra hoops. This seems dangerous especially since they do not provide resin. Thoughts???
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No tape? That seems really dangerous. Your hand could slip easily. Do they at least provide crashmats?
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Touching on the question of no tape…
I prefer to not tape my hoops.
It is not dangerous at all and in fact, can allow the aerialist to wear less clothing without worrying about getting chafed by the fabric tape. I also find it to be easier on my hands. Taped hoops make my hands sore and red much more quickly.
As an instructor, I find that girls who come from pole actually take to an untaped hoop well…as they are used to gripping bare metal. (We offer both taped and “bare” hoops at my studio.)Your studio is probably using untaped hoops for sanitary reasons (and probably to save time and money on keeping up with re-taping hoops). A bare hoop can be easily cleaned and sanitized with rubbing alcohol or mild cleaners. Whereas, the tape we use for hoops is essentially fabric and glue. Think about it…fabric and glue…can you imagine the germs and dirt that get stuck in that tape? And it is not exactly easy to sanitize between classes. Some studios go months between taping hoops. Thinking about how many people have touched the hoop, had it in their crotch, etc…no thanks. I’ll go play on the untaped hoop. 😉
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Thank you Squeak, I was wondering if it was ok to leave a hoop “naked”! Seemed like it should be fine, but I didn’t know why some taped the hoops, what you’ve explained makes sense!
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I have trouble on bare lyras…seems very odd but it’s true and it’s because my palms sweat when I am doing something I’ve never done before…and lyra is scary to me anyway. I feel way more solid on the pole. I’m sure that fear and subsequent sweaty hands would lessen with time, but I’m not on lyra enough to know and be comfortable yet. However….I also don’t like a fully taped hoop because it’s SO, so grippy. One brilliant solution I have seen is to only tape key contact points, leaving most of the lyra bare.
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Sparrow, that is a great idea. When I first trained on hoop…my instructor only had tape in major contact areas. If your grip is an issue…definitely feel free to use grip aids on the hoop just as you would with pole. You might also want to cross-train on fabrics a bit. I used to have grip issues on the pole and then got into fabrics for a couple of years. When I went back to pole, I had a death grip from working on the fabrics all the time!
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Yea, I do fabric too. Talk about hard to clean!! 😉
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