Talk:Trapeze

Physical Requirements
•	Beyond the facts about trapeze, the most important aspects of trapeze are grace, flexibility, strength, endurance and unique style.

•	You need grace so that when you swing and switch between tricks, you look nice and everything flows.

•	You need to be very strong to do trapeze because the basics of trapeze involves being able to pull yourself up into tricks or beat on a flying trapeze. Beating is when you hang from a trapeze that is still and pump your legs and arms back and forth, like on a swing, to go higher. Beating requires a lot of arm and abdominal strength.

•	You need endurance for trapeze because even though it doesn’t seem like a long time, many routines are more than five minutes long and if you are not in shape aerobically, then you will not have the strength and energy to last this long.

•	In order to do many tricks, you need to have flexibility in your back and your hips (to form a split).

•	Style is also very important to trapeze because each trapeze artist has their own style that makes them unique. Some trapeze artists are very structured in their range of movement and some make it more like a dance in the air.

Shana7475 (talk) 23:25, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

These aren't really requirements specific to trapeze though. You might say they're guidelines for a better performance, but that would apply to any dance or acrobatics discipline. Anyone can start and train on trapeze. Ghaost (talk) 21:30, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

"Without a net"
It would be nice if this article addressed trapeze work "without a net," since it figures prominently in fiction (and in real life? I don't know...that's why I looked it up :-)  Afabbro 05:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Trapezoid & Multiple Trapeze
In my 14 years of trapeze, I've never heard anyone refer to a rig as a trapezoid, as in the article's following line:

"The trapeze is a short bar that is hung by two cords from a support higher up; when these cords and the support are included, the trapeze is shaped like a trapezoid."

Nor have I ever heard of "Multiple trapeze". I know of doubles trapeze (two people on the same bar), duo trapeze (usually two people on two bars, but can also refer to doubles trapeze), and triple trap(eze), which is 3 - 5 people on a 3-person bar.

So, unless someone has sources or something, I think these parts should be deleted...

-- hibou 21:34, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I find no refrence to the trapezoid shape either. I have seen and heard the term "multiple trapeze" many times - it was even used to describe that funky trapeze in CdS's The Fire Within series. For an easier to find refrence, see the Aerial Arts FAQ (linked to in the article).

I have seen in dictionaries that trapeze has trapezoid in its etymology (source of the word) through French and Latin. I believe that the original author was not saying that the object is referred to as a trapezoid. The author was merely alluding, perhaps too subtly, to the supposed source of the word trapeze. --Satyaglyph 06:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

It says "shaped like a trapezoid", not that it is also called a trapezoid. Not sure if the link was there before, but it seems to refer to the geometric shape created by the bar and cords (though lacking a fourth side, I guess?)


 * No, the support is the fourth side. Nyttend 19:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Other aerialist forms
Could someone who knows what's where please link to other aerialist forms? For example, Quynbi Horton's performance (pictured) is clearly not trapeze, but it is clearly related. I've also seen two women aerialists work with a large ring suspended in mid-air, clearly not a trapeze as such but also clearly related. - Jmabel | Talk 23:16, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't have time right now to do this myself, but this is covered in the Aerial Arts FAQ (its one of the references to the article) under aerial apparatus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.234.106 (talk) 05:22, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Current intro
Trapeze is the overall name for a collection of closely-related aerial apparati. All trapezes are horizontal cross-bars used by acrobats (more specifically, "aerialists"). They are often popularly associated with circuses.

Braydon says: the trapeze (occasionally abbreviated to trap) is a short bar that is hung by two cords from a support higher up; when these cords and the support are included, the trapeze is shaped like a trapezoid.

Proposed rewrite
A trapeze is a trapezoid formed by a horizontal bar hung by two cords from a support. Trapezes are used by acrobats (more specifically, "aerialists") and are commonly found in circus performances.

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