Please! Need Help With Inverts!@#$

ambashel started this discussion · 4/8/2009

Ok, so I am new to poling and to this site. I am in an Intermediate Pole Class and we are now working on more Inverted moves. But I am having SO MUCH TROUBLE. and it is really frustrating me I just want to kick the pole, but I think that would hurt, lol. Ok my main problem is being able to "stick" my legs to the pole to be able to release my arms. And also, the Gemini (i think)...My left leg that is wrapped around the pole just plain wont stick. Aside from it hurting like hell, I just slide right down. I am trying to do it the way I see my instructor do it and also the videos I watch, but I just am not able to get it. Does any one have any suggestions right off hand to help me out or do I need to post a video of me sucking on these 2 specific moves, so you can get a general idea of what im talking about? hehe Thanks! 🙂 Amber

2 replies

Veena · 4/8/2009
If you could post a video that would really be helpful. In the online lessons I teach a lot of the inverts from the ground. It can make it easier for some people to find that sticking point without fumbling around off the ground and worrying about falling. Then you are free to concentrate on where your legs go! So you could give that method a try. 🌸
Foxy_Rei · 4/8/2009
Ditto to Veena - 1) post a vid 2) practice from the floor. What I used to do was get in the invert and slide down until the top of my shoulders were resting on the floor, just enough to take a bunch of my weight but not enough to damage my neck in the process. 😛 Then I would keep my legs in the same position and just hold myself there. That way I was getting myself comfortable in that position leg-wise, could get a feel for where exactly the pole needed to rest between my knees and thighs, and I could work on strengthening my legs. Plus the slow sliding that is bound to result helped me get used to pole burn and eventually make my skin used to it do I don't get it at all! I have to go back to this to learn to invert from my left side. If I manage to even kick my outside leg up without doing it wrong and crashing my ribs into the pole, I usually keep trying to switch my legs as if I were still inverted on the other side! So I need to get accustomed to it from the other side before I fall and hurt myself... Good luck and let's get a vid up! 🥂