- I'm 73 years old, and I'm a level one aerial student here.

I take silks, hammock, lyra, which I am performing today, and flying trapeze.

This is my fun place, my happy place.

(laughs) (lighthearted music) Flying trapeze just makes me feel like a little kid.

It was scary the first time going up the ladder, and leaning off the platform, but once I got past that is not scary anymore.

And it's just so much fun and when you fall down in the net, it's like woo, like you're a little kid, and, I just love it.

- The thing I love about flying trapeze is that, you get to have the feeling of literally flying.

There's the feeling of weightlessness during each swing.

(lighthearted music) The technique that you learn in flying trapeze is how to harness the momentum of the swing, and feel when the weightlessness occurs and you know, disappears.

(lighthearted music) - Well, it's really rewarding when you are trying something, and trying something, and you can't do it, and you can't do it and you keep trying and trying and you finally do it.

It's like the most rewarding thing ever.

- What drives students to come here is a lot of things.

Curiosity, is what usually brings most of the first timers you know, curious as to what this is, and then, whether they can do it themselves?

The fitness desire is I think universal cause it is a great way to gain upper body strength obviously, but also core strength.

And we work your whole body when you come here.

And so we actually do have a conditioning class which utilizes a lot of the apparatus for the purpose of staying fit.

And so some people only take the conditioning classes, and some people take conditioning classes as a stepping stone to do the other apparatus, but there's no requisite in terms of the order that you do all of that.

- And I recommend anyone that even thinks they might wanna try, but, oh no it's too hard to just try it once because, they'll either love it or they don't have to do it again.

(laughing) - This N P T Arts Break, is made possible by the generous support of the Martha Rivers Ingram Advised Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee ,and a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.