10/26/25 Premiere Series Qualifier

On 10/26/25 I competed in my very first ever Premier Season competition. There is a whole other back story to this. I’m just gonna post a timeline of things, so you know why I did what I did during those two course runs.

12/08/24: I heard and felt something like velcro tear in my left shoulder during my gauntlet training.

Rest of WNL season X: Competed the entire season with minir issues. Shoulder got slowly better.

09/23/25: I had a really bad peel off of a bar during our Dexterity team qualifiers. It was so bad that I lost part of my hearing and vision until the Friday after Premier Series. I didn’t connect the vision and hearing thing to the fall at the time though as that wasn’t immediately evident until a couple of days later. The pain in my shoulder got magnified from that fall right away though.

10/14/25: I told my coaches that I think I may have torn something and that I would take it easy in class that week as the MAXimum comp is this weekend.

10/18/25: My first qualifier for season XI at MAXimum went great. I was in some amount of pain on the rings. Then I took another week off for Premier Series.

10/20/25: I almost failed my yearly school bus physical due to very bad hearing and a loss of eyesight. I didn’t think about that fall anymore and chugged that up to old age. It was yet slightly disturbing as I actually had improved both on my strict carnivore diet.

10/26/25: Premier Series qualifier for finals. You can see how I did at Premier Series in the videos, so I won’t go into details. The only thing I am going to criticize here is that due to my sudden bad hearing I couldn’t hear them telling me that I had more time than I actually did have, which is why I walked off on obstacle 4. Up until the Friday after Premier Series I was not aware though that my hearing was THAT bad. I thought my time had run out, when it actually didn’t. Had I known that I had more time I would have tried obstacle 4 again. And they all thought I walked off because of my shoulder, so no one held me up. It is what it is, I guess. 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

10/28/25: I went to my family docs office. The assistant basically called me a hyperchonder and told me I might not get an MRI as I’m presenting with no pain and I’m fine. That same day in class the premier series course was still set up at our gym. So I literally NAILED obstacles 2-4, which I had a hard time with in competition due to pain. I was rage working out that evening at the Depot and had so much adrenaline going. And looking back I shouldn’t have done what I did, because I might have actually made things worse.

10/29/25: I went to the emergency clinic at OiP and cried them a river. OiP immediately scheduled me for an MRI for a possible labrum or bicep tendon tear and gave me a sling. The way my arm looks doc thinks my biceps is fine though. So the only other possibility is… 🤯🤯🤯

10/31/25: That morning whenever I looked to the right to check traffic in my school bus I noticed my left shoulder hurt. It was then that I remembered that bad peel off of that bar, because my neck muscle still hurt also like it did when I crashed down from that bar. So I called my chiropractor and he was actually able to find an area in my neck that was out so bad that I could not properly turn my head to the left. Popping that back in was excruciating. But had some immediate nerve release. I had electrical zaps go down both my arms. Right after that my full hearing returned and also my vision. The pain in my shoulder also got a lot better.

11/04/25: 1st meeting with PT. My physical therapist thinks it might be impingement. But in order to know for sure we still need to rule out a possible tear. Now I’m only waiting for the arthrogram and imaging on 12/18/25 and the meeting with the surgeon is in January and then we should know more. The way the PT made it sound is that even if this is not a tear I will still not get around surgery as they might have to do some form of debridement to get the debris out of that shoulder. The only difference is that the debridement surgery takes less recovery time than a labrum repair.

I’m still in disbelieve, especially if you look at my performance since last year December. If I can do all that with a torn labrum I can’t even imagine what I might be able to do with a fixed shoulder.

Anyways… thanks to the Dexterity Depot for hosting this absolutely amazing Premier Series comp. Sorry that it took so long to post this, but I was mentally struggling to process everything that happened.

Thank you so much for an awesome course to Matt Bradley. Thanks for the amazing live feed commentary to Megan Budway and Cayne Mauldin. Thanks to Elias James for coaching me. Thanks to the World Ninja League for giving us this amazing opportunity! It was super fun still, considering the painful circumstances. And I don’t know what the future brings, but I will be back one way or the other. 🤞🤞🤞