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Help please – Can’t progress to next level
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Chemgoddess1 – to answer your question regarding the blurb: "Mary will be at the gate at 4 pm to pick you up. I know you have never met Mary before, but Mary will be wearing a long purple coat and carrying a bouquet of roses. I have instructed Mary to take you directly to your hotel.", I would probably write "Mary will be at the gate at 4 pm to pick you up. I know you have never met Mary/her before, but she will be wearing a long purple coat and carrying a bouquet of roses. I have instructed her to take you directly to your hotel.", (which to my way of thinking/the way I was taught – which admittedly was many years ago and things may have changed since then! – is OK, because you have already said "Mary" so it's obvious that it is Mary you are talking about.)
AerialGypsy – I agree that not every move is for everyone, but at Bobbi's that doesn't seem to apply somehow. Everyone's expected to be able to master every move at each level – although a couple of the teachers have said that they find some moves difficult/challenging!
I've enrolled to do Intermediate 3 (again!) for a term – but only once a week, and also enrolled at another studio once a week, to give them a try. They have a much larger syllabus, so that should provide some variety and a few different challenges. I also plan to go to practice at Bobbi's on Fridays. Will see how that goes. I'm also planning to do Lyra in a couple of months, for a different kind of challenge too, and I hope to start Flex classes again at my original studio, now that my favourite instructor is back from maternity leave.
And yes, if I decide to move up a level at Bobbi's after this term, I can always move back down to a lower level if I find it too difficult (though I tend not to want to do that, as I don't like to feel I'm "giving up" as that's not in my nature!!)
corby – I was interested to see that you mentioned "she" being the cat's mother 🙂 That was what was said to us as children if we referred to someone as "she". The reponse would be "who is "she"? She's the cat's mother' (which I've never really understood!)
And yes, stepping back from something frustrating is a good idea 🙂
Juicy J – yes that's exactly my problem. I can invert to a V from the ground fairly consistently (except if I'm tired), but the aerial one is my nemesis! I make a point of coming out of the inverted V in a controlled way, as I've been told by several different instructors that you use the same muscles going into a move as coming out of it.
It probably doesn't help that I'm an older (and heavier) poler with a larger bone structure than a lot of the other students, and I see the 20-something year olds doing aerial inverted v's and shoulder mounts with the "knot grip" that Bobbi's uses, without a problem. Have to keep reminding myself that I must not compare myself with them! I plan to have a practice with some of the other grips for the shoulder mount and see how that goes, too.
Thanks again for all the help and suggestions.
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I am so intrigued by the whole "she" discussion. I think most americans would find that (to us) unnessesary over use of our names to be awkward. I get weirded out when sales people do that to me… Our version of the language is very informal and appears to be heading more so in that direction. A lot of older people do not like to be called ma'am or sir anymore (yes there are plenty that do) and in general regardless of familiarity we refer to people by their first names rather than Mr.smith or whatever. At any rate I would have NEVER thought twice about using she. Fascinating.
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The cat phrase comes from what cats are called: males = Tom cat, females = She cat. So the only time to use “she” is in reference to the cat’s mother. I think a big part of the “don’t use she situation” has nothing to do with not using pronouns, and everything to do with not using 3rd person pronouns in the presence of who you are talking about. Especially if the situation requires any sort of formality.
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When I posed my original question, I didn't envisage it becoming a discussion on grammar 🙂
I have 4 American-born and raised cousins. I remember their first visit to England. Even though their father is English, they still had quite a culture shock! Both Mum and I had met them before, but they hadn't met my Dad. I had to translate some of what my Dadsaid, because he used a lot of colloquialisms, and I also learned that there are words that don't seem to occur in "American English" – such as "queue" and "bloke" 😉
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The grip that Bobbi's studio uses for shoulder mount is in this video, at 3:18: http://polechampionship.com/competitors-semifinals/joanna/
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that's a twisted grip. You can try other grips that are much easier and safer on the shoulder. Ask them if you can use cup grip, veena grip, or claw grip instead. I like claw grip personally.
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May I ask what the claw grip is? Never heard of that before.
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May I ask what the claw grip is? Never heard of that before.
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When your back is to the pole, the arm that is on the same side as your mounting shoulder goes up and behind the pole, with the pole between your pointer and middle finger. Your non mounting side, the arm does a regular cup grip.
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At Bobbi’s studios, there is only Bobbi’s way 😉 At my previous studio, they taught S/M with cup grip. I recently had a private with Jamilla and she showed me a couple of different grips as well.
Am having trouble visualising claw grip – where do your other fingers go? -
yuor pointer finger and thumb go on one side of the pole and the other 3 go on the other side of the pole.
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Sorry I must be stupid, I’m still struggling to understand how this is even physically possible! I will have to see if I can find a picture…
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@hazi–look at the PFA website on their visual dictionary. They have a photo there of the claw grip.
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