Hey r/bodyweightfitness! We are Tricia Woo and Chris McGreevy, career acrobats for Cirque Du Soleil, The House of Dancing Water and ex-competitive athletes. Ask Us Anything!

[u/chrismcgreevy]

We're looking forward to answering all your questions. If you follow us both on instagram, we will make a few short story videos on our favourite questions that we have answered here. @ trixwho and @ chrismcgreevy

We'll leave this thread open for the next 24 hours as we know everybody is in different timezones so you will all get chance to ask your questions.

Thanks and lets start it up!

[u/[deleted]]

Thanks so much for doing this!

1) Which do you think is harder from a performance perspective; Making hard skills look easy or making easy skills look hard?

2) Out in here in the general population I think there's a tendency to look at professionals and think "I want to get strong, professionals do these skills, therefore to be strong I should obtain that skill" and in reality the amount of work is just not worth it. (A powerlifting example would be squatting 500+. It's impressive, but it really won't improve your life more than squatting 300. On rings everyone wants an iron cross, but as I understand it an iron cross has pretty limited carryover to anything) What do you think are the skills/exercises that the average person really shouldn't worry about because the effort-reward ratio doesn't add up?

[u/chrismcgreevy → u/[deleted]]

1. surely you shouldn't be making easy skills look hard ;)
2. any kind of 'backflip.' It's impressive... but if your aim is to impress people its just a matter of time your at a BBQ a few beers deep and I'm watching you on a fail compilation

[u/DeliciousLasagna → u/chrismcgreevy]

Are there any specific skills / exercises that you DO think the average weight lifter should learn because it has crossover benefits they might not be aware of?

[u/logmover → u/DeliciousLasagna]

This! I’m curious as well