[egypturnash]

Acrobats are also doing things like practicing with a lot of padding and nets. And working up to the big dangerous stuff by doing simpler versions.

I took pole dance classes for a while, for instance, and it was only after a lot of practice that I was allowed to start doing moves where I was upside down and hanging on to the pole with my thighs. And the beginning of that involved just lifting my ass over my head (after a lot of strengthening of my abdominal muscles) and wrapping my legs around the pole, and suffering through the pain of most of my weight suddenly being on two tender little strips of flesh in my inner thighs. Once they toughened up I could start doing more interesting things.