Tricks
Below is a list of flying trapeze tricks that can be thrown to a catcher:
- Feet Across (a.k.a. "Legs")
- Heels Off
- Hocks Off
- Splits (Front End/Back End)
- Straddle Whip (Front End/Back End)
- Whip (Front End/Back End)
- Bird's Nest/Birdie (Front End/Back End)
- Shooting Star
- Half Turn
- Straight Jump
- Cut Catch
- Uprise Shoot
- Forward Over
- Forward Under
- Double Over
- Passing Leap
- Piggyback
- Reverse Knee Hang
- One Knee Hang
- Flexus
- Somersault
- Hocks Salto
- Front Hip Circle/Back Hip Circle
- Seat Roll/Penny Roll (Full Time/Half Time)
- Planche (Front End/Back End)
- Pirouette (540)
- Layout
- One and a half Somersault
- Cutaway
- Cutaway Half
- Cutaway Full
- Double Somersault
- Double Cutaway
- Double Cutaway and a half twist
- Double Layout
- Full Twisting Double
- Double-Double
- Triple Somersault
- Triple Twisting Double
- Full Twisting Triple
- Triple Twisting Double
- Triple Layout
These are tricks performed Bar-to-Bar:
- Hocks Off
- Splits (Front End/Back End)
- Straddle Whip (Front End/Back End)
- Whip (Front End/Back End)
- Bird's Nest/Birdie (Front End/Back End
- Half Turn
- Straight Jump
- Planche (Front End/Back End)
- Layout
- Double Somersault
These are tricks that can be performed without a catcher:
- Salute
- Half Turn
- Force Out Turn Around
- Back Mount
- Suicide
- Reverse Suicide
- Pirouette
Returns:
- Half Turn
- Flexus
- Birdie
- Legs (Twist one direction to grab the bar.)
- Angel (1 or 2 legs)
- Pirouette (540)
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“Let the new faces play what tricks they will
In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,
Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,
The living seem more shadowy than they.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Everyone has some tricks they can do, but each has his own way of doing them.”
—Chinese proverb.
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