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#beautifulbeginnerbasics challenge idea
I really enjoyed the Alphapole Instagram challenge and was thinking of a new challenge to do in the new year. Seeing Maravillapole’s pretty fireman spin and her comment that you never see anyone doing the basic fireman anymore made me think about doing a back to basics beautiful beginner moves challenge thing.
Taking the first pole moves you ever learned and doing them again, with the best form you can, both sides. Making them into combos, making them lovely, adding in advanced or intermediate stuff too if you like but celebrating the #beautifulbeginnerbasics.
In the rush to master every trendy trick I feel that the simple grace and flow of my basics can be lost and I would like to reclaim that.
Plus, it’s something everyone can do! And it would be so interesting to see how people styled it differently.
Here are a few moves off the top of my head
Walk around the pole
Quick turns around the pole
Big step
Back hook spin
Fireman
Chair spin
Attitude/stag spin
Sexy squat
Back bend
High kicks
Fan kicks
Head rolls
Shoulder slide
Pike spin
Carousel
Body wave
Hip circles
I know there are loads more in Veena’s lessons, plus combos for inspo…What do you think?
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So stoked about this!! I’d love to add leg waves, leg show, pole sit, elbowstand, pole climb. I remember how Finding Your Freestyle had a ‘dancing your climb’ challenge awhile back. Let’s dance our basics! 😀
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Yeah!!! I’m in.
And if you come up with a 1-31 for Jan I can make a cute instagramable square with the names… If you want. Or you can.
Kind of like I did here… https://www.studioveena.com/photos/view_photo/548095df-8074-4e84-994f-60d30a9aa0eb
Or you can do it. It was easy. 🙂
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That’s a beautiful idea! I would feature it on the site if someone came up with the visual for it. I’m super busy at the moment itherwise I could help. Im all about expanding on what you can already do. 💜
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Awesome! Allyson I would love it if you could do graphic. The more people help the better. How about we brainstorm moves and combo moves on the thread – eg: attitude – Backhook -chair spin or high kick – back bend) on this thread during December and then put 31 days together?
I was thinking of basic guidelines:
Can be done on static or spin
Pick a move of the two or three suggested daily or run the moves of the day all together in any order as a combo, with extra bits if you want (ie: add in an advanced move like drop into splits if you feel like it)
Some basic, key moves can come up several times during the month but in combo with different moves on different days.Maybe a sponsor could give away a pair of shorts or grip aid or something as a prize with Veena judging?
The only tricky bit is people call things different names but if we use the names on Veena gallery/lessons we can avoid confusion.
What do you think? Open to all collaborations and suggestions
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Actually, maybe just give ten moves a week and let people combo them up as they like or just do one or two daily? Would that be easier?
I don’t know if people prefer to do exactly what’s on the tin or if they like the creative freedom – personally I loved the Alphapole challenge because they suggested moves beginning with the letter each day but you could pick anything you wanted that starter with the day’s letter and combo it/present it/style it how you wanted, which made it really exciting [to me]. What do you think?
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I love this idea!!!!
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one move daily would probably be easiest and its also the more common pole format. But this is your baby so whatever you decide I am so in! How fun!
oh and let us not forget the oh so beautiful “Tush Push” which i know as “heavy hair”.
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Daily, I think, as it gives structure and is easy to follow. Love this idea… roll on 2015 🙂
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Front hook spin! One if my faves cuz there’s soooo much you can do with it. That and chair spin. So much variety in such simple moves! I do all these beginner moves still all the time 🙈 I’m terrible about incorporating harder moves into actual dancing
I think daily also, but if you want to do combos that once a week combo set up by stg poledance might be a good example of how to go about that
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Tick tock legs!
Martini girl! (I dunno what it’s called here I have to look)
Pin up girl/trucker girl
Fan legs on the floor
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Wonderful idea! I’d love to see a daily plan (I’m not good at making it up on my own….)
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It would be really cool to see all the participant’s #beautifulbeginnerbasics with clarity each day. Combo the assigned move up if you want. What I really like about the IG yoga challenges is how clear and easy it is to follow in that its one move, everyday… play with it as you like and to your ability. It was so interesting to look through and see so many others all doing the exact same pose, some with variations. I would frequently look at adv. yogis to see that I was doing it correctly. Thanks for heading this up Tropical!! 🌴ðŸðŸŒº
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Oh, and I also wanted to suggest a move for the list 😊. Pole descent! Sliding, or jumping, or spinning down the pole. Hopefully not falling 😨 lol
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Cool, looks like one move per day is the way to go and let people combo/style it up or not as they wish. Now we just need to choose 31 beautiful beginner basics and off we go!
Shall we start off with Fireman as it seems to be the first spin everyone tried and it’s kind of iconic for that reason – plus it was Maravillapole’s fireman that inspired this? Any more must have/old fave moves to add? What’s that one where you stand on one leg, draping the other round the pole and bend forward from the waist?
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The first class I took was fireman, stag, and martini…and sometimes back hook. Speed bump was also in there, pole walk (oh there’s lots to be done there!), another first level they learned fireman, stag, what I think is called side spin here but they referred to as front hook with mermaid legs, reverse stag, reclining fan legs… then the next level up I think they learn chair? and that’s when they start learn to climb. Body waves
So yeah indispensable beginner for me is fireman,
stag,
martini,
I would even say pole walk just cuz I rediscovered it doing the 30 day take off and it’s one a lot of people forget, is as basic as you get and something people could have a lot of fun with (you’d probably have to show different variations though to get brains bubbling)
Pole pirouettes (maybe not indispensable but y’all know I’m a sucker for pole piros 🙈) -
I dunno what Martini is. Is it fireman with one leg extended or chair with a leg extended?
I love combo- ing beginner spins on spin pole, here is Attitude – Backhook – Chair and it went on into more variations after the IG 15 secs.
http://instagram.com/p/vljZIRFDDL/
Some IG challenges have a demo posted the day before but I don’t feel competent or organised enough to do that. Does anyone want to be the demo person? Or shall we just leave it and assume people can look it up if they don’t know the move or aren’t sure because they know it by another name?
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This is such a great idea!
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Hmm I thought there would be a lesson here, but it looks like not exactly. Martini is like flirty fireman except you bring that knee up to look more like the side sit legs. I’ll search a YouTube video later today 🙂
For what it’s worth, the combo in the video would have been impossible for me as a beginner. It took a really long time just to be strong enough to do front hook to back hook on a spinning pole. One move per day might be more accessible to beginners, but if the challenge is geared more towards intermediate/advanced polers looking back on basics, then combos would be fun/more accessible. But as mentioned above, it’s your baby! Just throwing out thoughts 🙂
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Thinking back, the first moves I learned were
Walking round and under pole quick pirouettes
Fireman with knees together then one leg extended then pike
Back hook spin
Carousel with diamond and straight legs
Big step around the pole into back hook spin
Front hook spin and whip leg in
Chair spin
Sun wheel
Attitude/reverse attitude
Slide down into back bend
Slide into jazz splits
Tush push
Fan kick on floor
Windmill (fan kick holding pole)
Firecracker (tuck and then V legs from side pole hold)
Sexy squat
Wrap one leg round pole and bend forward pose – name escapes me
Floor develepe
High kick to back bend
Sexy crawl
Rib isolations, hip rolls
Hip dips and head rolls/hair flicks
Flatline descent
Number 7/supermarket (getting up from squat with knees together by sticking tail out and up then lifting chest and arching back up)
Slide down with back to pole and hands over head then peekaboo (open and close legs). Stripper moves – I was originally taught by a stripper back in UK over a decade ago so we learned lots of stripper stuff. Gymnastic/contemporary pole didn’t really exist then and there was no social media.Amazing I can remember any of it all! It was aaaaaages ago.
Really interested to hear what everyone else learned first.
Sorry for essay!
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Lucca I think you’re right, combos will be too much – let’s keep it accessible. People can do the move of day and we can maybe have a weekly wild card if more advanced people want to string combos together and go nuts!
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Yknow I don’t think I’ve ever heard that one leg on the pole fold over thing called anything? Maybe pole fold over? I think I’m mostly making that up but it sounds like a thing lol
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Did somebody say prance already? I love to prance 😀
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Yeah prancing!
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Im on board with whatever you guys want! You’re coming up with such good ideas.
I love me a good speed bump!
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I love the idea of this, I’ll definitely take part in it. For me some of the moves will be new but I look forward to the challenge. Some ideas for pole moves:
cross steps
extended leg spin
knee spin
Pole hold hopWill definitely need to use Veena’s terms and/or provide a picture of the move. There’s been quite a few mentioned here that I have no clue over!
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