Tick!

It took a little over a year, but today I did a stitz. I cheated, of course. We are training a new winch operator, and she is past the point of sandbags, and ready for human victims. So I jumped on the straps in the theatre. Not on stage yet, no big flights. Hopefully I'll get to do that before I leave! But a muscle-up (stitz) on the winch is cheating, because you get the lift of the winch, and when the winch stops, obviously, you keep going into the support.

What pleases me more is that in that post, I could do 2.5 pullups. Now, I can do 8, unassisted, after a straps session. I am become buff.

What saddens me is that it has been a year, and I haven't done enough with it, and now I want to stay for another year of straps, and trapeze, and Nastyushka and Squeaky Toy and everything else I love.

But it's not worth it, and I want to go home and I want to travel and Nastyushka will either wait, or she is not worth staying for. Long story, there.

So I come home. And I hang my trapeze in Melbourne, and have a coach lined up, and in another year I will be able to do stitzes without the winch.