Tickets available now!
We’re excited to offer a full weekend workshop with Sam and Luka this January!
This Seattle teaching duo will be exploring some of their favorite L-basing acro, including a mix of tricky flows, hands-free inversions and transitions, slackro balance, funky F2H, and creative H2H/RH2H transitions and pops.
Over the course of the weekend, they will also share how they train, including communication, nervous system management, patterning safe exits, and how to build towards new skills incrementally and in a way that feels good in your particular partnership and body.
If you like Sam and Luka’s nerdy, work-hard-to-look-smooth approach to acro, this is a great opportunity to really go deep with them!
Our guest instructors
Sam Courts and Luka Ruzic are Seattle based teachers and acrobats with two decades of combined partner acro experience. Drawing from their mixed movement backgrounds (from gymnastics to climbing, lifting to martial arts), and their science and engineering professional backgrounds, they’re known for their detailed, technical understanding and methodical approach to training. They particularly specialize in challenging creative L-base flow, handsfree acro, and F2H/H2H.
Schedule
There will be a mix of different acro content presented in each session to prevent any one body part from getting tired out, but expect Saturday morning to have a little extra focus on H2H technique, with split-level drills and conditioning.
Friday, January 16th
6:30–7pm: Warm-up & Connect
7pm–9pm: Session 1
9pm–10pm: Jam/Coaching
Saturday, January 17th
9:30am: Arrive and warm up
10am–12:30pm: Session 2
12:30–2pm: Lunch
2pm–5pm: Session 3
Sunday, January 18th
9:30am: Arrive and warm up
10am–12:30pm: Session 4
12:30–2pm: Lunch
2pm–5pm: Session 5
Location
This workshop is hosted in San Francisco at Zaccho Dance Theatre. The venue provides plenty of space, gymnastics mats on a sprung floor, and free street parking.
Prerequisites
Washing machines: Corkscrew, Catherine's Wheel, Big Le Moi
Consistent entrance to reverse star (doesn’t have to be a jump)
10 second L-based foot-to-hand
5 second tuck-sit
You do not need to sign up with a partner.
Optional Homework
In addition to the prerequisites, practicing these moves ahead of time will help you get the most out of the workshop:
Shoulderstand range of motion: base presses and rotations, flyer shapes
F2H stair-steppers
Star to Tuck-sit and Tuck-sit to Star
Reverse Star to Croc and Croc to Reverse Star
Free Star and Free Reverse Star, mono Reverse Star
There will be H2H in the workshop with non-H2H substitutions, as well as options for novice through advanced H2Hers. We recommend spending some time working on H2H/RH2H ahead of time including low and extended holds, jumping into H2H, and playing with range of motion. If you don't have a H2H at all yet, we recommend training Tuck-sit, F2H range of motion, and partner push-ups.
Early bird pricing until the new year!
