Well after months of practice I FINALLY got my handspring!!!! I never thought I'd get it. I still tried week after week, but I honestly thought that the handspring would just be in the box of failures. I was so excited I literally screamed when I did it! It's definitely gotten my off my pole plateau that I've been on over the past month or so. It felt incredibly easy once I did it though. I still can't get over that I can do it now! (The video is after I'd done it about a good 6 times or so just to make sure it wasn't luck).
Watching the likes of Zoraya and Jennyne do it so effortlessly made me want to have it so solid that I can do it with hardly any kick and just chill vertical for as long as I want. So my next goal is to get my handspring controlled and hopefully be able to straddle and go into pencil and back again without shaking like a leaf trying to stay up. This has definitely given me new inspiration to push myself that much harder at moves I never thought I'd get.
It just sucks that most of the moves I want are flexibility ones that I unfortunately lack the bendy ability needed. I'm going to this contortion class that is being held by this awesome contortionist, Mim. I hope she just doesn't look at me and say something like "maybe you should just focus on strength moves". Who knows, she might have some amazing stretching exercises that will make me as flexible as Felix!! That would be awesome. I'll have to update and see how the flexibility is going...hopefully I've improved!
