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  2. Acrobatics - Wikipedia

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    Acrobatics (from Ancient Greek ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō) 'walk on tiptoe, strut') [1] is the performance of human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination. Acrobatic skills are used in performing arts , sporting events, and martial arts .

  3. Hand to hand acrobatics - Wikipedia

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    Often the circus will recruit gymnasts from sports such as acrobatic gymnastics because hand to hand acrobatics is such a big part of that sport. Hand to hand acrobatics also appears within other disciplines in the circus arts. Aerialists, trapeze flyers, and contortionists often use hand to hand acrobatics. There are times when aerialists and ...

  4. Trapeze - Wikipedia

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    A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes, metal straps, or chains, ... a young French acrobat and aerialist, in Toulouse in the mid-19th century.

  5. List of acrobatic activities - Wikipedia

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    Trapeze – Short horizontal bar hung by ropes or metal straps from a support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances. Tricking – Training discipline that combines kicks with flips and twists from martial arts and gymnastics as well as many dance moves and styles from breakdancing .

  6. The Flying Cavarettas - Wikipedia

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    The group's unique composition as an all-teenage, primarily female, aerialist acrobatics team attracted increasing public attention, [3] [4] and the siblings were soon making regular television appearances on popular variety shows of the day, including The Pat Boone Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Hollywood Palace, and competing ...

  7. Luisita Leers - Wikipedia

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    Luisita Leers was born in into a family of circus artists: her mother Gertrude was an acrobat, and her adoptive father Guido Krökel was a ring specialist. [1] She was trained by Krökel from the age of six. She made her debut in his troupe in March 1920, aged only eleven.

  8. Trapezius - Wikipedia

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    The rest of the muscle arises by numerous short tendinous fibers. It is possible to feel the muscles of the superior trapezius as they become active by holding a weight in one hand in front of the body and, with the other hand, touching the area between the shoulder and the neck. [citation needed]

  9. Macarte Sisters - Wikipedia

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    They were born into a dynasty of acrobatic and circus performers dating back at least to the early 19th-century (they claimed to the early 18th) [2] who all adopted the surname Macarte in place of their actual surname of Macarthy. An earlier generation of females in the family - their aunts- were using the stage name 'Sisters Macarte' from at ...