I flew up to NY for a weekend with family and made plans with my cool cousin Katrina to go to Trapeze School. I was as little nervous and so glad to have a buddy to try this with. We spent the first 30 minutes getting an introduction to the basic "knee hang" technique on the ground on a low bar. 
Our goal was to jump off the platform, holding the bar, swing forward, lift our legs up over the bar, drop our arms (hanging from our knees), then reach back up to the bar with our arms, drop our legs, and then let go to fall on our backs into the net.
We climbed up a very tall ladder to a tiny platform. The hardest part was jumping off the platform. But once you were swinging, the rest was much easier to do. 
After doing this several times, they added the hard stuff - the catch! The goal was to let the other person "catch" you when you swung up and out with your legs. I came very close...but apparently gave him the slip.
This is my cool cousin Katrina with our instructors- Randy and Manny.
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