I remember I was thinking about my first competition experience for a while.
Decompression from the competition was needed, but I could not stop thinking about the five months of training and my performance on stage. The whole competition process was physically and mentally demanding and I was exhausted, yet I couldn’t stop going back to the pole.
Update August 2025
It has been almost three years since I posted anything here and so now I share my summary of these missing years.
Short person problems in USA that you may not realize in daily life. Things that remind me how I’m in the US when I came back from Japan.
I have seen some SNS posts about when people visit Japan, they hit or nearly hit their heads often because everything is shorter in Japan. I am about 4’11 and I am still shorter than average in Japan, but I barely have any problems in my home country. However, life in the US reminds me constantly of how short I am. Here are some of my short people problems in the US.