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And so I'm doing this pole routine and I can't point my feet and I can barely straighten my legs.

But the difference between dancing and doing extreme things with a body is that

When I don't look at it as dance, it doesn't really matter that I can't point my feet because I can splay my toes and I can still be very flexible and overextend my split and be in an open, like an oversplit.

But my toes can be splayed and my ankles can be flexed.

and it kind of maybe even makes it better.

And I think for me, that's been like the switch of not looking at things as dance so much, like just looking at things as like an extreme thing with my body.

And that can be like an emotional extreme as well.

So it can be expressing an extreme emotion or it can be expressing extreme tiredness

Sometimes when I go on the pole, I'm so tired at the end of the show.

And especially at the beginning, sometimes it would take me a couple of goes to get into a move because my body's tired and it won't do that thing.

But then there's this feeling that that's a part of the show, that to miss a move and have to try a couple of times again.

especially in cellophane is it becomes a part of the show so there's then so much strength in being in front of 10 000 people and falling out of something and having to do it again and it's just this like focus of because that's life you know you fall out of a dance move you do it again you fall out of a dance move you do it again

so that's what I mean by doing extreme things with my body and that's why I'm not really scared about getting older as well because you know I'll just figure it out I don't have to be doing like insane things

like flexibility things forever.

You know, there's lots of ways of moving for when one gets older.

Like in martial arts, you can do wushu in a fire way where everything's like sharp.

You can do it like water.

You can do, there's lots of different forms of martial arts for different ages.

You can do Tai Chi.

You see like older people doing like Tai Chi, but it's actually like so powerful.