Hello! Thanks for your interest in the upcoming mixed asynchronous/live online, aerial straps course. The training will cover advanced aerial straps pedagogy and learning principles, unspotted and spotted progressions, a skill dictionary with cues, potential injury risks, and common problems. Participate from your studio or on approved-home rigs/rigging. The hybrid format incorporates independent study, group lectures/discussion, and personalized feedback.
The Level 2 Straps Teacher and Perfomer Training builds on collaboration with experts and innovators in the field of straps coaching and skill performance. Key information will be shared via lectures, group discussion, and embodied practical application of the concepts addressed.
The 40-hour Level 2 Teacher Training Module will build on the foundations and fundamentals covered in Level 1.
If you have not already taken Level 1 and do not wish to do so, there is the option for testing out of the Level 1 requirement via a video assessment where your understanding of different straps skill, teaching and spotting techniques, and overall biomechanics and injury prevention will be investigated.
Program Highlights:
• Participants will receive the Level 2 Skill Reference List for use after the training
• In-depth skill investigation for: 1-arm switches, 1-arm swings, 1-arm spins, intermediate/advanced sequencing, split grip transitions, intermediate drops, 1 and 2-arm waist rolling, and advanced strength skills.
• Ergonomic and effective spotting technique for: all 1-arm switches, 1-arm inversions, spotting intermediate/advanced swinging skills, and waist rolling.
• The benefits and HOW to's for off-apparatus training
• How to use sport psychology principles in your coaching practice with intermediate/advanced performers
• Advanced C-shaping Injury Risk Reduction and Breathing Mechanics
• Planning a training session for yourself or an advanced aerialist
• Building a framework for act creation, sequence creation, and creative research
• Identifying common problems and things that can increase injury risk in DYNAMIC techniques and pathways
• How to approach (re)patterning of skill pathways that are limiting the athlete's success.
• Tendinopathies and risk management strategies
• Skill Acquisition
• Advanced and in-depth anatomy/physiology/kinesiology for 1-arm skills
• Using an "occupational therapy" framework and approach to coaching around/through injuries
Students will, over the course of the training, have :- Independent study (lectures, video tutorials, and video feedback and conceptual homework - 15-20 hours
- Skill and progression practice - 13-16 hours
- Video reviews and peer assessment/analysis - 5-10 hours
- Live Zoom class - 10-12 hours - each zoom class usually runs 3 hours, but sometimes we cover all the material/videos faster than that.
Level 2 Zoom Class Times (recordings will be available):Sundays starting the second weekend of May (5/12, 6/23, & 8/11). Exact times to be decided based on preferences indicated in the application form below!!
The pre-training portion of the course opens three weeks before the first Zoom session.
Some of the live portions of the Level 2 Training have guest lecturers that you may just recognize from the world of straps like Clara Laurent (@_claralaurent_), Aisling NiCheallaigh (@aislingcheallaigh), Seba Rojas (@aregularpieceofasparagus), Francesco Lanciotti (@ceccofoile), and Max March-Steinman (@bo_ties)!
Each week, students will have assigned practical (skill-review) and theory-based homework (including video lectures, quizzes, class planning, biomechanics, and periodization assignments.
General Suggested Prerequisites if you have not already taken the Level 1 training:
Physical prerequisites are encouraged for embodied understanding for the practical section (and be ready to have a student to work with for the practical video submission for spotting assessment as well as practical demonstration:
• Minimum of 2-3 years aerial/gymnastics/movement teaching experience (does not include aerial yoga)
• Comfort in a 2-arm or 1-arm c-shaping/waist rolling pathways
• Ability to easily 2-arm straight arm invert in the air, and ability to hold 1-arm inverted positions (like meathook/flag)
• Comfort in skin the cat, flag, meathook, and back balance
• Experience teaching or training 1-arm normal and reverse spinning skills
• Experience training or teaching 1 and 2-arm swinging skills like swing to meathook, flag, dislocates, twists, and or 1-arm fulls
• Ideally, but not necessarily, an understanding of biomechanics, teaching theory, spotting techniques, and intermediate/advanced straps skill pathways and coaching of them.
Applicants are recommended to submit an audition video (including as many of the skills you can safely do or teach found in the video) in addition to the application form.
*The total time commitment is quite high, but you will have access to the skill reference videos forever. The in-depth tutorial and lecture videos are accessible during the teacher training and for a month after the training. You will also have the option of being added to a private Straps Teacher Trainees FB group where you can bounce ideas off of other coaches who have done the training.
Submit your early bird application to reserve your spot for the next training!
Pricing:
Early Bird pricing of $800 USD in one payment ends January 26th.
To secure your early bird spot, you must submit the deposit of $300 USD and your application by end of day January 26th eastern standard time.
The total price after early-bird is $900 USD upfront (to be sent in no later than by April 15th), 2 payments of $475 (the second to be sent in by June 15th), or 3 monthly payments of $325 USD (the last to be sent in by July 15th).
Invoices & taxes - if you need an official invoice, the cost of taxes will be added to the final cost of the training.
In your application, please make a note if you have financial need for a discount or scholarship and an explanation of your financial situation. At no point should attending the L2 put you in a financially insecure position - the goal is to make the training as accessible as possible to everyone wanting to work their professional development as an aerial and straps coach.
Your application will only be eligible for early bird price if the registration form is complete and the $300 deposit is submitted (if you've already taken Level 1).
If you have not already taken the Level 1 training, to be eligible for early bird, please submit videos of you training or coaching the skills in the application video, and include some days/times you're available for the video interview/audition prior to March 21st. The video audition/interview will be 15 minutes, and will require a submitted application deposit of $25 prior to the video appointment.
Once your application and/or video appointment is successfully submitted and reviewed, you will receive an email letting you know you've been approved! Once you receive that, a the deposit must be submitted to reserve your spot in the training.
To reserve your spot in the teacher training after the early bird deadline, a non-refundable deposit of $350 to hold your spot with the singular exception that if you're unable to take the training, and we can find a replacement, your deposit will be refunded.
Payment can be submitted via Zelle/CashApp($kozaaron)/Paypal (
aaron.kozloff@gmail.com, friends and family)/Revolut/Transferwise - all payment amounts must take into account any added fees/currency exchange fees. If you are based outside the U.S., do not use Paypal unless you want to risk added fees.
After the teacher training has started, the fee is non-refundable. In the case of emergencies, your access to the training platform can be paused and extended until the emergency has been resolved.
For more information, email
koz.circ@gmail.com