On Sunday I met up with Vera at Potrero del Sol to listen to her friends DJ and to hoop it up. Our first item of business was new tape for our hoops. The tape on mine was pretty shot and by the time we were done we both felt our hoops were fresh and rejuvenated. It's amazing how all those little tears and ridges add up after a while in the discomfort department too - so with fresh new tape it was smooth sailing.


Maybe that's why we finally had a breakthrough on the step through trick we've both been working on. I was telling her how close I was to getting it when it suddenly happened. A few minutes later Vera did it for the first time as well. By the end of the day I was going through back and forth relatively easily. Don't believe us? Click on either of the images to pop-up little animated gifs of each of us breaking on through to the other side.

If you're on dial-up it will take a little while for the animations to load. As for the accomplishment and ownership of a new trick, I think I can speak for both of us when I say it definitely felt like a rite of passage.