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Impromptu update: I suddenly and accidentally got my chopper tonight! I just finished my April O'Neil pole costume (it's... terrible. I didn't even imagine it would be this bad) and wanted to get some photos in, so I hopped on the pole (seriously, why is my skin so slippery this week?) and did some moves. One of the poses I figured I'd try is a chopper, and it wasn't until I was doing the move that it suddenly occurred to me that this was easy. It didn't even take any effort to hold it up, and watching the video afterward, I had an amazing split and was holding it for a very long time.

This video is terrible evidence, but I managed to get (and hold! Albeit briefly) my cup grip handspring earlier this week! I've been working on it for... I don't know, maybe 4 months? Before my shoulder injury. I was trying to incorporate it into my training so that I wouldn't have to only rely on twisted grip and because true grip really hurts my wrists (for the record, an article just came out saying how true grip is really bad on your wrists, which is where it hurts me). I found a YouTube video that showed getting into it from chest out, so that's how I've been training. I can't imagine trying to swing kick into it. I've been slowly feeling closer and closer to staying up, and on Monday I was finally able to do it! Seriously, it's amazing because I haven't been able to do any pole for the last 3 months due to my shoulder injury, so how did this happen?? I credit my physical therapist because she's been really working my ass off with som...

On accident, no less! I decided to drop into pole 4 aerials tonight with Kate at 8pm because I was feeling antsy but too exhausted to go to boxing class (I question if I'll be up for the boxing workshop this Saturday). I haven't been to a real pole class in weeks, if not months, and I wasn't doing so good at first. I got really winded really fast, and there was a brief moment where I panicked and thought, 'Am I this bad now? How am I going to get my endurance back to where it was?' But then about half way through the class I was feeling like my old self again, and I was super relieved. I think it's going to be difficult going back, but now I know I just have to push through it. I was so excited to find all my favorite people in Kate's class! Chelsea, Becki, Michelle, Catie, and some other really cool new girls! It's all the cool people! Kate had us start out class with shoulder mount preps and then actual shoulder mounts, and I went ahead and did a s...