Lil update on my pole progress :3

My pole classes have been the one consistent thing going on rn that's been nice and kept me active and stuff. My mood swing troubles have been reaaaally shitty recently like I'm just all over the place and I feel like going to pole class is very grounding. Pole class and LuLuYam's art has been singlehandedly keeping me alive fr. I wish I could share videos cuz the full thing is so much cooler (plus then I'd also be able to show the clips where I flop lmao) but I got some screenshots of some of the cool stuff we've been working on!

I'm not entirely sure I was doing this right tbh but I think it looked pretty anyway

This one was HARD like not physically hard but getting my brain to actually let go and fall backwards without freaking the fuck out (it looks pretty tho)

I liked the way this ultimately turned out (we got to freestyle as long as we incoporated this move cuz it was the move of the day) but like figuring this shit out felt so weird like the main point of contact being my feet felt awful and the pole is DIGGING into the crook of my hip

This class was REALLLLYYY fun! We spent the whole class progressing into butterfly cuz the class has a lot of ppl at varying different levels so we took it slowly. I love doing inverts, my brain has a hard time getting past the fear so I'm still taking them slowly but it feels so accomplishing to do. This was my first time successfully doing butterfly. I wanted to progress even further into doing the extended butterfly (as shown below) but by the time I actually managed a butterfly I'd exhausted myself (Jana makes us do so much conditioning at the start of class) so I didn't wanna end up injuring my shoulders by trying too hard. Overall having a fucking blast tho!

(Song playing is Primadonna by MARINA)