Yesterday's dust

I've often said that gyro is fancy frosting to the cake of pilates. Gyro juramentados would have you believe pilates is passe, that gyro is better, bigger, replaces, and surpasses pilates. Nothing could be further from the truth IF you really understand pilates.There is no way you can appreciate pilates, and how significant it is compared to the frosting of gyro, unless you can understand the essence of pilates, which unfortunately, most people (especially pilates teachers) don't.

Gyro is a brand, of what already exists in pilates as an idea.

Gyro has to be an extension of pilates. The big difference is one of money, naturally. Gyro is heavily controlled and charges a lot of money to participate--as a client, or as a teacher. So it's attractive to teachers because they can make more money teaching it than pilates. But to say that gyro eclipses pilates is wrong.

If you really want a handle on gyro, you need an understanding and appreciation of pilates.

To paraphrase from Top Gun: Gyro's ego is writing checks its substance can't cash.

I don't know what the heck gyro is, but my regard for pilates forces me to take exception to the way gyro is falling all over themselves on the way to the bank to sweep pilates under the carpet as yesterday's dust.

Comments

[brady wedman]

once the idea is understood, all of the forms, within all methods, become brushstrokes - one line (or fluorescent activation), changing shape...

no one can 'own' any of it except the artist.

and even we, are just the circuits.

we must build better hardware, and make the software open-source.

[matmajick]

Brady,
the concept of Pilates as open-source software is great. Freely shared and understood. That is what the Mat especially is all about: all you need is a floor and some gravity.