Acro again

I have found a new acro partner. Nadia starting coming to the Beijing juggling club about a month ago, and over the past few weeks I have learned that she used to do a lot of martial arts, she seems to be vaguely interested in dance, and she is helping Fede out at the shop. We had a couple hours of practice last night in which Fede showed is a few basic moves and ran us through a warm up, and it went pretty well. She has never done partner acro before, so there are gonna be a lot of things to teach her, but as long as I lead her through things slowly to build trust I think it should work pretty well. Physically, she is quite flexible with her splits, and although not as strong in the arms as I would like, she seems to be fine in terms of general fitness. Anyway, I have never had an acro partner who's upper body strength met my hopes. She is also taller and heavier than the girls that I have done acro with previously. She is pretty slim and athletic and pry somewhere around 50kg, but since her body is so different from that of Michelle, Colleen and Erica (each of whom was somewhere around 40kg) it will be interesting for me to work with her.

I also found an incredible resource that I am sure did not exist when I started doing acro: An acro balance wiki. I am definitely gonna try and use this to teach Nadia some moves. Fede is actually leaving Beijing to be in Italy for Christmas, and then to spend some time with his girlfriend who is working in the Central African Republic. He won't be back until February, so after he leaves next week it will basically be up to me to train Nadia in partner acro. I am a little nervous about it: I know a number of moves, but I don't know much about flying. I also will have to remind myself to move slowly enough to built trust, rather than just jumping into more fun, exciting and complicated moves.