My Monday Class is Awesome!

I had an awesome class again tonight. I love my monday class. It's really allowed me to really work full out without worrying about being too tired to teach later. Which means I'm actually trying harder to get stuff.

Today, I got my caterpillar push to forearm grip butterfly. Now I just have to work on keeping my chest pulled back away from the pole. I kind of feel like I'm holding on for dear life right now, lol.

Worked on my wrong side scorpio. I can't remember the last time I worked on this move. I still managed to hold it, but it needs to be stronger before I can do a switch from the left side to the right.

Also, I did a deadlift! This is where you do an invert in the air - no feet touching the ground (a lot of people start out having to kick up from the ground to get into it). Mind you, I half pulled myself up by my legs, but I got my legs up there enough to get on the pole! Its one of the moves I was afraid I'd never be able to get.

And we were instructed to listen to our choreography music a lot, to get to know it. I was listening on the way home and I already started thinking of moves that would fit. And then I started really thinking about the lyrics (the song is 'perfect lie' by the engine room - click for a link to the song on youtube)

It feels like a song about wanting to be perfect, not being satisfied. In listening more closely to the lyrics, it kind of makes me want to tell the story of someone who wasn't satisfied with their looks, had them changed/tries to change them, but then realizes that they're still not satisfied, and that it has nothing to do with their looks at all.

I thought it might be fun to do something with a mask as a prop for this one. Not sure how that would work with the aerial stuff, but I'll mention it and see if anyone wants to play around with the idea.

I love choreographing!