Baby Dragons · Learn Baby Acro With Us

Before you start

Watch these in order.

Everything in this series was built as a sequence of very small progressions, starting when our twins were much smaller than they are now. None of it started where the newest video is, and none of yours should either.

Every session is led by the babies. If they aren't in the mood, we don't do it. Some days neither of them has it, and that isn't a failed session, it's the method working. A qualified adult base, a soft floor, and space for the failures come before any skill on this page.

Questions are genuinely welcome. Ask them on any of the posts and we'll answer properly.

The progression

Start here · what a session looks like

One real session, start to finish

Seven and a half minutes cut to three. The warm-up spins, the skills they ask for, the lifts that don't land, and the point where the base is completely done. This is the shape of the thing before we break any of it down.

In this one

reading their signals
the base does the work
space for failures
when to stop

The first skill · tension, not height

Comfortable off the ground

Where everything else on this page starts: her hands around his fingers, off the ground, on her terms. He never pulls; she grips, he waits, and the tension gets made between them, hands first, then feet, a little more upside down each time. She brings a lot of tension of her own here, and a baby who just hangs there grinning is the skill working too. The goal is never height: full arm extension, full weight through the shoulders, their own tension steadying them for their base.

In this one

co-created tension
no jerk, no pulling
a little upside down at a time
done means done

Lesson three · folds before lifts

Learning to fall

How does a throw get safe? By never coming first. Elevated tummy time opens this one, support underneath so that lifting his head and organizing his spine in odd positions is already normal. Then the drops, because all of it is practicing the folds before the lifts: him getting used to his own weight falling through space, the base getting used to exactly how fast he falls. Only then the first unsupported fall onto something very soft, the first true throw, and the spins that ask his eyes to hold the base while the room turns. Every fall lands face down on purpose, the safer shape at speed, and the point of all of it is a baby watching himself fly and finding it hilarious.

In this one

elevated tummy time
folds before lifts
face down, always
eyes on the base

Lesson four · backflips

Borrowing a reflex

The most impressive one to watch, and the one that starts with something the baby is already doing. Every baby puts their hips back and their feet up by their ears, and the whole skill is that fold, allowed to finish. On a soft surface it finishes against the feet placed behind them, with the base doing nothing but turning them over while they do the work. In the air it asks for nothing new: legs back, pelvis leading first, and the base's thumbs on the backs of the shoulders, which is where the movement actually gets directed and caught at the top. This one also keeps the session where both of them decline, because a baby who won't play ball usually isn't a baby who dislikes it, it's a baby who doesn't yet know what you're asking. And the floor repetitions are for the base as much as the flyer: how fast that body moves, where its weight and center of gravity sit, how much tension it holds. None of that gets known airborne. If they come round curled in a tuck, that's right, and the legs come out in their own time.

In this one

hips back, feet up
the floor version first
thumbs on the shoulders
a tuck is right

Lesson five · the vertical toss

One hold at a time

The toss everyone films is the top of a ladder, and this is the ladder. The first hold asks only that they can sit themselves upright and extend from the pelvis, and before they can sit there is a version with their bottom against your chest, leaning forward, holding the extension through the upper back. From there the hands walk down the body one position at a time. The pelvis, then under the arms and down to the hips, which is where you start to feel their weight slide through your hands, and the instruction is to keep contact all the way down rather than pulling your hands out to catch. Then armpits and knees, then ankles and shins, then one hand flat under the feet. Nothing moves up a rung until the one below is genuinely easy, and that is the safety case rather than the catch. The last hold rests on ankle stability, the ability to pull the foot up and press it down, so that gets played with directly: stood in one hand, given something to push back against, for as long as they can hold it. And when falling backwards becomes the game, that becomes the game.

In this one

extension from the pelvis
keep contact as they slide
armpits, knees, ankles, feet
the ankle decides the last one

Who's doing this

Caleb and Victoria

Caleb is a functional neurophysiology expert and the base in every video here. The lifts are foot positioning, hand placement and his strength, and there is always a get-out position available to the babies.

Victoria is a UK-trained clinical expert and twin mom, and is almost never in frame, because she is far too much of a distraction to two babies who are supposed to be concentrating.

We started as complete beginners with a lot of nerves, and grew into this together as a family, over months.

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