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Sep. 23rd, 2008 01:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3nanashiWhen you do the same routine for every show, barring emergency rearrangements, you don't need much practice for it outside of that. Anything ready to be put in a show should have been practiced until everyone can nail the timing to the split second, every single time. But any ideas for variations on a routine, or for new ones . . . Well, those need practice, and before that they need testing out.
Accordingly, this afternoon Trowa is standing next to the (relatively) low practice wire some yards from the big top, watching Cathy frown in thought.
Her BRILLIANT IDEA for a new trick needs some of the details rearranged in practice, it seems.
Accordingly, this afternoon Trowa is standing next to the (relatively) low practice wire some yards from the big top, watching Cathy frown in thought.
Her BRILLIANT IDEA for a new trick needs some of the details rearranged in practice, it seems.
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Date: 2008-09-23 05:52 am (UTC)She doesn't sound best-pleased with this concession.
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Date: 2008-09-23 06:07 am (UTC)"It would fit better."
"We could do a double flip later to make up for it. After the catch."
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Date: 2008-09-23 06:28 am (UTC)She waves her hands. "Starting with a single, then catch, then double--then going back to two more singles. Would the cartwheel still fit, do you think?"
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Date: 2008-09-23 06:36 am (UTC)(When she's not caught up in ARTISTIC GENIUS, she does it on purpose to make Pierre Thoreau twitch.)
"If we shorten the double here. In the big top it'll be fine."
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Date: 2008-09-23 06:54 am (UTC):D, her face says. "Ha! Okay, so single flip, you catch over here," she points to where he usually lands after a flip, "I'll have walked to here," she bops to where that is and taps the highwire above her head. "And flip--there--without hitting you in the head."
Thoughtful pause. "That shouldn't be hard, I'll just keep my right arm held in, which'll throw off my balance a bit but I can probably correspond it with my left."
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Date: 2008-09-24 04:50 am (UTC)They're very pretty. And so far, hitting him in the head has happened several times.
"You could throw them before you flip."
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Date: 2008-10-02 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 06:00 am (UTC)Cathy, because she's Cathy, gets a Trowa version of a smile.
(That means it's barely perceptible, and mostly in the eyes. But it counts!)
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Date: 2008-10-02 06:39 am (UTC)And catch them. Um. Theoretically. She doesn't do that part so often.
But that's what practice is for! Right?
And so, she hops up onto the platform at the end of the rope, grabbing the fan lying there. "Want to try this again?"
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Date: 2008-10-02 06:53 am (UTC)He crosses to the other end, and waits facing Cathy.
One, two, three -- she jerks her chin in a quick signal, and they move.
. . . Well, the fan doesn't hit Trowa.
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Date: 2008-10-02 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 07:20 am (UTC)(This is very weird to Trowa. But so are many things about his sister.)
So he just puts her down (when she's stopped holding her nose) and flips down to toss the fan back up to her.
It takes a few more tries.
Maybe more than a few.
But they do get it consistently. Eventually.
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Date: 2008-10-04 08:54 am (UTC)In case Trowa doesn't know, and because she doesn't trust him to supply it: "We are! We totally deserve smoothies."
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Date: 2008-10-04 09:03 am (UTC)THERE IS NO RESISTING THE SMOOTHIE EXCURSIONS, TROWA.
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Date: 2008-10-04 09:11 am (UTC)If they run into a bar instead, well. She's not heartbroken at all.