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The Circus Doc Interview | Aerial Anatomy | Episode #017
The 17th Episode of the OTP Podcast features Dr. Emily Scherb, also known as The Circus Doc. She is a physical therapist, instructor and a practising aerialist for over twenty-five years
She works with professional and pre-professional circus artists. She is the Resident Physical Therapist at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts and for the contemporary circus company Acrobatic Conundrum.
She has just released a new Book called Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts and I loved having the opportunity to sit down and drill her with questions –hope it’s the first of many!
Hit play above or watch or read the transcript below.
Sarah: Welcome Emily. Thank you so much for doing my podcast.
Emily: Thank you so much for having me.
Sarah: Also known as The Circus Doc, which we’re going to be linking to all of your social media stuff and website and all that stuff so if people haven’t heard of you they can obviously find out about you there. Thank you for giving up your morning, it’s 9:00 am where you are?
Emily: About 9:00 am, yeah.
Sarah: About 5:00 pm where I am, so we’re a little bit spread out but we’ve managed to make it work which is fantastic. I’ve posted in my off the pole community group that I was going to be interviewing you and got lots of questions from them. So I’m going to be touching on some of those in a bit, but I’d like to start off with hearing about your book that you’ve got coming out, or has it already been released?
Emily: It is about to come out next week.
Sarah: Ah, fantastic. A little bit about your book, what’s coming out and what lead you to write it.
Emily: Absolutely. The book is called The Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts. I’ve got my copies already.
Sarah: Ah, so shiny.
Emily: But they’re not quite out for the general public yet. It’s an anatomy book based on how our bodies actually work in the air. It is talking about the basics of anatomy, how they work for everybody and then how that specifically works when we change how gravity works on our body and are hanging from our hands instead of standing on our feet.
Sarah: I’m so excited about this book. I know there’s so many people that are going to be completely geeking out that this book’s coming out because it’s so hard, you want to do research, you want to find about how to look after your body and then you look at all the anatomy pictures and the videos out there and everyone is just stood on the floor and it doesn’t work the same, it completely changes it when we’re flipping around in the air. This is so exciting. And you’ve got a huge background in this area. What came first, the physical therapy or the aerial?
Emily: Most definitely the aerial. I started doing aerial back in about 1991 or 2, so I’ve been doing it for a very, very long time. I started off as a gymnast and found my way into circus as a relatively young youngster. It really was just, oh, instead of having to compete and having to perform that way, instead I get to perform, then people clap. This is fun. And there was similar challenges on the body and similar demands of a training schedule to keep myself in shape to do it and so I really just fell in love and started doing it back then, kept doing it, started teaching and have been teaching ever since my late teen years.
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By Sarah ScottThe 17th Episode of the OTP Podcast features Dr. Emily Scherb, also known as The Circus Doc. She is a physical therapist, instructor and a practising aerialist for over twenty-five years
She works with professional and pre-professional circus artists. She is the Resident Physical Therapist at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts and for the contemporary circus company Acrobatic Conundrum.
She has just released a new Book called Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts and I loved having the opportunity to sit down and drill her with questions –hope it’s the first of many!
Hit play above or watch or read the transcript below.
Sarah: Welcome Emily. Thank you so much for doing my podcast.
Emily: Thank you so much for having me.
Sarah: Also known as The Circus Doc, which we’re going to be linking to all of your social media stuff and website and all that stuff so if people haven’t heard of you they can obviously find out about you there. Thank you for giving up your morning, it’s 9:00 am where you are?
Emily: About 9:00 am, yeah.
Sarah: About 5:00 pm where I am, so we’re a little bit spread out but we’ve managed to make it work which is fantastic. I’ve posted in my off the pole community group that I was going to be interviewing you and got lots of questions from them. So I’m going to be touching on some of those in a bit, but I’d like to start off with hearing about your book that you’ve got coming out, or has it already been released?
Emily: It is about to come out next week.
Sarah: Ah, fantastic. A little bit about your book, what’s coming out and what lead you to write it.
Emily: Absolutely. The book is called The Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts. I’ve got my copies already.
Sarah: Ah, so shiny.
Emily: But they’re not quite out for the general public yet. It’s an anatomy book based on how our bodies actually work in the air. It is talking about the basics of anatomy, how they work for everybody and then how that specifically works when we change how gravity works on our body and are hanging from our hands instead of standing on our feet.
Sarah: I’m so excited about this book. I know there’s so many people that are going to be completely geeking out that this book’s coming out because it’s so hard, you want to do research, you want to find about how to look after your body and then you look at all the anatomy pictures and the videos out there and everyone is just stood on the floor and it doesn’t work the same, it completely changes it when we’re flipping around in the air. This is so exciting. And you’ve got a huge background in this area. What came first, the physical therapy or the aerial?
Emily: Most definitely the aerial. I started doing aerial back in about 1991 or 2, so I’ve been doing it for a very, very long time. I started off as a gymnast and found my way into circus as a relatively young youngster. It really was just, oh, instead of having to compete and having to perform that way, instead I get to perform, then people clap. This is fun. And there was similar challenges on the body and similar demands of a training schedule to keep myself in shape to do it and so I really just fell in love and started doing it back then, kept doing it, started teaching and have been teaching ever since my late teen years.