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Got the muthafuckin Allegra!

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 should mount cartwheel and the other girls freaked out! They thought it was just the coolest thing! I was really surprised because I don't actually think they're that cool looking, but I guess the other girls thought so.

At the end during free time Becki asked me something about a pole 7 move and I told her about the other Sneaky V variation from Genie. She asked me to walk her through it and then we started doing other moves from extended butterfly, which Michelle asked us to teach her. At one point I just kind of dropped out of butterfly into flatline and I heard someone behind me say "Now do Allegra." I thought it was the girl next to me, who was super talkative and a little overly enthusiastic to join in, but it was Becki. I was hesitant to do it because of my shoulder (and it's so painful) but she talked me into it. I told I would only do it if she spotted me, and somehow - I don't know how - I got it on the first try! And it didn't even hurt in the slightest! I have no idea what I did differently, so I don't know how to replicate it. Becki did pull my foot to my hand, but she said it was only about 2 inches away, which is a considerable improvement from before!

Here it is! It's not beautiful, but I fucking did it! I got the muthafuckin Allegra!



Edit: So I think I might know what I did differently. Becki mentioned something about how she thinks going into it from Scorpio might work better for me. At the time I thought she just confused Scorpio with Flatline (since I had come into it from butterfly), but after thinking about it, I don't think I actually went into Flatline. I never pushed my hand out or extended my other hand. I think I just wrapped my leg around and went straight into its, which would be a Scorpio.

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