paintings of the pole: volume 4

these days, my pole classes seem to be more about developing fancypants strength moves that are pretty much only impressive to other pole students. actually, i'm pretty sure the person most impressed by them is ME, because i've never been a historically strong person. and it's kind of blowing my mind that i'm doing crazy-ass stuff like this now.

for example! i think this is called something benign like the "side mount," and when done by someone who does it well, it looks all easy-peasy, nice & smooth and effortless.

AND I CAN DO IT TOO. i mean, my version still involves a lot of grunting and desperately NOT-smooth jerking of body parts into place, BUT STILL.

so a fairly normal thing to do is invert, where you kick your legs up over your head and latch on to the pole with your ankles, like the first two pictures from last time. or my lamp post picture. this time though? we started by climbing up the pole a bit:then keeping our arms like that, straightening out into a hang, putting our hips in front of the pole instead of behind it:and then, from a dead hang, swinging your feet up into that same invert. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)and then! you can do any of the normal invert tricks, like my very first pole drawing ever, the hands free invert. which i can now even do without that curse-y thought bubble! one day maybe i'll get someone to take actual real photos of me so i won't have to keep drawing this crap.