u/Sayge_Paige

I had been really scared to take my hands off in bat. Then suddenly I just felt secure and it was easy!

Learned this combo in class this week. What is that first spin called that's kind of like figure head but with the sickle foot hold and the inside arm grabbing the outside knee. I think the inverted move is a bow and arrow.

Tbh my organs feel fine in this move. Walk in the park compared to Allegra and Jallegra for me. I always feel like my intestines are being squished in Allegra!

Now I just need a bigger pole room and this will look great 😂

A year ago I herniated my L5-S1 disc so badly that I lost motor function in my right leg and I couldn't walk. I had to have surgery and do a lot of PT. I got reassurance from doctors and PTs that I would be able to go back to pole but it was really hard to believe in the moment when I was dealing with so much pain and dysfunction.

One of the scariest parts for me was looking online and seeing nothing but horror stories of people who didn't get better after surgery and didn't go back to their sport. People tend to post when something goes wrong and there's a bias towards negative posts. I also couldn't find a single example of someone pole dancing with a herniated disc or after microdiscecotmy surgery. Spine and disc issues are incredibly common and I was so surprised that no one had a story to share. I wanted to post a success story for anyone else who might be struggling with an injury like this.

This clip is not my cleanest and it was a first attempt at a brass split. But I wanted to share it because every move in this clip was a goal move that I couldn't do pre-injury. After recovery and lots of PT, my core strength is better than before my injury. My hip mobility is getting better in some ways and still worse in other ways, but I'm training with intention now in a way I wasn't before. My back flexibility is definitely less than it was before but it's still possible to train and I am working towards improving it with PT approved exercises. After recovery, I picked up right where I left off in training and I'm a better pole dancer than I was before.

Ignore the loud garbage truck outside my window 😂

I need to work on getting my feet together and maybe being higher up on the pole so I have more room to drop down. Also does anyone have tips about how to get into a genie without regripping your legs 100 times 😂.