routines or freestyle??

carriej started this discussion · 9/20/2009

I've been practicing pole at the house for about a month and feel pretty good about the things I've learned. Here's the catch! When I'm at home, I just pick moves to learn and then work on them so I'll be like, "Hmm...let's practice the reverse grab spin." Then I go to pole class and the teacher shows us some moves and transitions and at the end puts on a few songs and tells us to just dance to the song. I have NO IDEA how to dance to the song!! The problem is that I don't really know how to link everything I learned together and just end up walking or spinning around (and I'm sure it doesn't look that good!). Question is: Do you all make up full routines or do you just do whatever comes to mind when you dance? I really have no clue!

3 replies

Charley · 9/20/2009
Does your teacher show you how to link the transitions with the moves? It might be something you want to work with her on. You could always ask her for a routine too. When I get requests for routines I write them up even if it's just one person. I freestyle, I always work with a song a few times before a performance and then have a general idea of it's ebb, flow and peaks and work from moves that feel really good on my body and moves I know I can do well. Generally speaking for practices - I will start just dancing and moving around the pole - no tricks, then I will freestyle with a few tricks thrown in and then by the 3rd song I start pulling out more things from my aresnal. There are days where I work with just tricks but I ususally will do them a few times and try to go into them from a transition or something.
cbella13 · 9/20/2009
The pole classes I take have routines. Every three weeks we learn a new dance. The break it up like Week 1: 1st part of the dance, Week2:2nd part and then week 3 we put it all together. I've never freestyled because I don't have my own pole at home. 😳 I'm hoping they are going to have some open studio times soon so I can try it! 🤸
carriej · 9/20/2009
Yeah, maybe it's just me being so new. I mean, our teacher does a great job of showing us a combo of a turn, a floor move, and a spin. The thing is that it takes maybe 30 seconds to do and then I just try to remember and do spins and turns but I feel like they don't really look that great! It would be cool to have a whole routine!