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Trapezing in DC

05/03/2012 by Liz Doyle

It’s a bird, It’s a plane...

Two weeks ago, I went trapezing. Yep, you heard me right. I said trapezing, like flying through the air, with the greatest of ease kind of trapezing. Except that my level of ease was at more of a mediocre level, but I certainly flew.

How does an activity like that come about, you may ask? Well, a few days before my trip to DC to visit my sister, we were discussing our plans for the weekend when she shyly asked, “Is there any way that you would be interested in taking trapeze lessons? Because I have this gift certific—"

“OHMYGODYES” I interrupted, “have you seeeeen Sex and the City? Vogue sends Carrie to the Trapeze School New York. HOW FUN! Oh seriously, I CAN”T WAIT,” words of excitement come gushing out of my mouth. (That’s her running in the above photo. She was pumped too!)

Now fast-forward three days. It is 8:15 a.m., we have taken the metro from Mount Pleasant all the way to Navy Yard and are getting fit for our harnesses in the shadow of the impressive net and trapeze apparatus. After only a few minutes of learning ground commands (ready, hep (circus speak for go), knees up, hands off … you get it), we were commanded up the ladder, without even a moment to psych ourselves out.

The first time off the platform was terrifying—please notice the progression of facial expressions in the photos below—but so quick, that it was nearly impossible to get too freaked out. As for the rest (there was laughter, failed backflips, extremely sore hands and catches with our instructor), I will let the photos and video do the talking.

If you want to check ’em out: Trapeze School New York has outposts in LA, Washington, D.C., New York, Boston and Chicago. $55 for 2 hours.

 

 

 

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you look gr8.

Kitten on 5/9/2012 5:14:49 PM
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As executive editor of Delta Sky, Sarah Elbert lassos the best writers she can find to cover the world—as well as contributing some prose of her own. Before coming to Sky, Sarah was editorial director of magazines including Northwest WorldTraveler and Carlson Wagonlit Travel's Postcards. She has been a newspaper editor, a freelance writer and an Associated Press reporter, riding with the White House travel pool (back in the Clinton days) and covering everything from natural disasters to a cat kidney transplant. Sarah has written for The New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Sun—but not the NY Daily News. She now lives in Minneapolis, which she finds lovely and underrated, but does occasionally miss Manhattan and the Staten Island Ferry. Sarah would like to think she could again go backpacking across Europe, and she still loves to travel, but she knows that train has left the station. It's just so much quicker to fly.

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After a few years navigating the trenches of New York's fashion scene as a stylist assistant at Harpers Bazaar, associate editor Liz Doyle is excited to be back in her childhood hometown of Minneapolis. When she isn't scouting the latest trends in fashion and travel, she moonlights at a local Parisian brasserie where she says "welcome" and "enjoy" a lot and occasionally tries to improve her French. Though her foray to the editorial side of the magazine industry is a new one, she welcomes the challenge and can't wait to see what this new adventure holds.

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