Today I'm going to give some advice on the best way to find and choose a dedicated acro training partnership.
Finding an acro partner is a bit like dating.
It takes time...
You have to put yourself out there
You have to meet many people and get rejected many times before finding the right partner.
Plus how you feel about potential partners isn't logical, you don't choose on pure reasoning, it's a feeling, an emotional decision.
This is my main 1st advice for choosing an acro partner.
It should be based on the feeling.
And I don't mean attraction, I mean how do you feel when you do acro with this person?
Do you feel happy, do you laugh and have fun, do you feel comfortable and safe etc.
For me this is the most crucial factor in a potential acro partnership.
The 2nd important advice is...
Common goals/objectives for the practice.
Again coming back to the relationship analogy.
If one of you wants marriage and kids, and the other wants a casual fling.
It probably won't work well as a long term partnership.
Same goes for acro.
Understanding if one of you wants to train to join the circus and the other just likes playing and having fun.
Or one of you wants to be a an acro teacher and the other just wants to create pretty instagram content.
None of these desires are wrong, just it probably won't be cohesive and aligned for a long term partnership if the desires aren't aligned with each other.
The 3rd and last advice for this topic is...
Skill level.
I often hear many people saying they want a regular partner who is more skilled than they are.
If you can find that great, that will help you grow for sure.
But in my opinion points 1 and 2 above are infinitely more important than the skill level of your partner.
I personally believe if you have a less skilled partner with great connection, plus similar goals and desires for the practice.
You will end up going much further than a highly skilled partner with a poor connection and different desires and goals to you.
For the last time, to use the relationship analogy.
You can choose the rich guy who you don't love, but that won't make you happy in the long run.
Or you can choose someone you love and want to create a life with and that will last and fulfil you so much more.
The other thing is you don't have to limit yourself to only 1 regular acro training partner.
If you can maintain the partnerships and commitments you can of course find more than one great acro partnership (back to being an acro slut, haha!)
Lastly if you are struggling to find an acro partner and you've been looking a while.
Don't give up, keep going to jams, meeting new acro people and it will happen eventually.
Cheers,
Cas
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