Program

Nine day long acrobatics training with the Partner Acrobatics team; lots of options to train at your level.

Location

Cortijo Caseria Del Mercado is a small organic farm high in the Alpujarras mountains of Andalucia, southern Spain.

In addition to the huge array of fruit and vegetables grown on site the farm has cats, dogs, chicken and a peacock breeding sanctuary and the farm produces its own organic olive oil.

Not only is the Cortijo a working farm it has been adapted as a retreat centre with traditional Spanish accommodation, a natural mineral water swimming pool, yoga shala, and both an outdoor and indoor acro space.

The local area is fantastic hiking country with spectacular mountain views and isolated “White villages” (paint).

More info on the venue can be found here.

Accommodation

The accommodation is included as part of the course price.

The venues farm buildings offer various basic but comfortable accommodations with a communal and family feel .

Shared accommodation is included in the course fee, numbers permitting. For an additional fee single accommodation may be available, please contact us for availability.

For those camping: please bring all your own camp gear, we don’t provide tents but we have lots of extra blankets.

Food

3 mostly organic (and local when possible) meals daily are included in the training fee. The food is mostly vegetarian and every few days we offer ‘meat options’. We cater for vegan, gluten free and other intolerances, which you can indicate in the sign up form.

There is a large communal kitchen and 3 smaller kitchens where students can prepare their own snacks etc. Seasonal fruits and vegetables are available from the farm and they are amazing!

How to get there

The cortijo is high in the mountains close to a tiny village called Castaras. The closest town is Orgiva.

We will provide pick up from both Malaga Airport at 3pm and Granada Bus station at 4pm on the 17th and arriving back to both locations on the 25th at noon.

The closest airport Granada is about 1.5 hours away from our venue.

Malaga is 2 hours but has no bus conection to Orgiva. Check www.alsa.es for connection to Granada timetable.

From Granada you can catch a bus to Orgiva (1 hour). Check www.alsa.es timetable.

GPS cordinates: 36° 55.543, -3° 16.388

On google maps.

Internet

A stable wifi connection is available at the Cortijo.

Recommendations

We do recommend that you invest in a good travel insurance then if the unexpected happens you will be well looked after financially.

Prerequisites

We do require require you have some acrobatic skills. We need you to honestly and accurately asses whether the following skills are accessible/of ease to you (while working with someone of similar skill level) as a base OR flyer, at the time of application you must be able to accomplish the skills without a spotter helping (they can be there for safety).

• Proficiency/comfort spotting tricks at your level
• Kick up into a handstand (you can have a spotter but without help to get in)
• Hold a handstand at the wall for at least a minute.
• Sidestar
• Prasarita twist
• Star (shoulderstand on feet)
• Free shoulderstand in hands (flyer holding bases arms)
• Thighstand (any variation)
• Foot to Hand (any variation)
• 2 man high (hands on calves)
• Tarzan whip
• Icarian throne to bird

On your application you will be asked to rate your comfort level in the following…. while they are not prerequisites, the more experience you come with, the more you will gain out of the training!

L-BASING (base lying down):

• Tic tocks
• Corkscrew
• Reverse star
• Free star (no hands)
• Hand to hand (any variation)

STANDING:

• Flag (either variation)
• Foot to hand
• Hand to hand

Send us a video showing a 1-2 minute sequence of your choice.

The video should represent where you are at skill-wise, however, it doesn’t need to be all of the craziest things you can do—think basic and clean! The video also doesn’t need to be of high production quality, a quick one on your cell phone is fine.

Fees and Application

Prices include the training, accommodation and three mostly vegetarian meals daily.

The price of the course does not include flights.  Group transportation is provided from Malaga and Granada.

Prices are per person. Please contact us about the availability of private rooms.

Prerequisites

Before applying please upload your prerequisite video to youtube/facebook etc.

Application

Space is limited and we expect to fill up.
Applications here!

If you have any further questions don’t hesitate to email info@partneracrobatics.com

After being accepted we will send you payment details. Only once you have paid the deposit, your space will be guaranteed at the training.

Schedule*

*Sample schedule subject to changes