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"Anything You can Do..."
07.22.14
BY K.L. DASH

HI My name is K.L. I’m a dancer. I'm a singer. I'm an actress. I'm a professional princess and I'm a former pageant girl. Oh yeah, and im a female pro-wrestler - well aspiring anyway. I'm probably nothing great but I dream to be someday. Read this blog, leave me questions. Get a view into "the biz", my mind, and all the places you never knew you wanted to go.



Hi there fans! Sorry the past few weeks have been in and out. Life happened to be… well, uh… life AND THEN… I broke my foot.

Wrestling.
In three places…

It looks like I am out of commission for at least four weeks (three now). This little happening is what brings me to my next story.

There is a serious lack of commitment with the male students. Generally none of them come to set the ring up and they hardly stay to take the ring down. They talk and giggle during practice and have big egos for no reason. Their mommies are there to hold their hands and they are of a “man’s” age. At special events they hardly show up to help set up, come to the show, and leave with their mommies before the work is over – and generally do not try to lend a hand bringing supplies or thinking about things we can use to make our company better. All in all, they are quite literally the worst.

Then there is me, the opposite of all of that, although the newest student…. The most dedicated and often said by the trainers the best and favorite student.

So when I heard that the terrible students were all in the latest battle royale at a very important show, I was devastated and angry and sad and honestly hurt. I try and try and try and don’t get recognition.

The next practice the worst of the worst was showing off his gear making more and more mad. The anger kept me with my head not as much “in it” as it should be AND I decided I was going to push it to the max. Do everything hard as I could – push myself to be the best and empress. I wasn’t happy with doing a move two times – although done efficiently not “perfect” – I had to try a third time…. And that’s when it happened. I slammed a guy at least a foot taller and 100lbs of more on me down across my knee and felt my foot break.

You could say my ambition was my down fall – but it was more like my anger & pride. I wanted to do what the guys were doing, bigger than they were doing, better than they were doing. And guess what? It turns out scientifically girls ARE different boys even in the ring – especially their skeletal system.

So here I am – a week & a half in of at least 4 weeks probably 6 or more with a foot broken in places. The guys still got to wrestle, and I had to not just sit by and watch – but sit by and watch knowing I was missing weeks of practice. The only thing I did better that night was break my bones – and not bad ass like the bones of my enemy – nope, my own bones.

Morale: It’s important to push yourself – but at your own limits, not someone else’s…. Because when you compare yourself to others, you hurt you, in every way possible.






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