Pole Fitness: progress and challenge

Hard to believe, but I started writing this post over a year ago and just kept updating it over time. It finally feels like I've reached the desired result and can show the real progress and struggle I went through to achieve it. I remember the first time I saw it done in real life, by a girl too, and my beginner pole dancer's brain just exploded.  Honestly, I thought it will never happen, back than I couldn't even do an invert without jumping into it. 4 years from then, and my Iron X is still not perfect. Very first attempts. The shape is miles away from a proper Iron X The fact that I got it at least in a slacky imperfect form is due to my being obsessive about the move. Happens sometimes. Once it felt like I've got a chance to perform it one day, I couldn't stop thinking about Iron X and focused on spending at least several minutes every class purely on Iron X training.. Unortunately, Iron X is one of those moves that you can't solely focus on,...

Something extraordinary happened just about a week ago, after more than a year of struggle,  I suddenly got my Deadlift. It is really hard to believe :) Just as usual I halfheartedly tried it without any hope for success, just as a part of my training where I did 2 - 3 attempts during every practice session. And "Holy  Shit! What just happened?!" I did it! I would like to say something inspiring about me consistently practicing, conditioning, doing complimentary training and stuff, but that's not quite true. It just happened. There was no getting closer day by day, or even clumsily making it happen for the first time. Deadlift turned from non-existent to quite a decent looking in just that one session. I never tried an aerial version before, as obviously thought it would be harder than doing it from the ground, but decided to give it a go anyway, cause why not? And it worked marvelously! To be honest I thought I was just deceiving myself, doing something wr...