AliciaPolerina
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I teach a class called Polerina and the pole is used as the barre for most barre exercises, some hand placement just needs to be modified. Most classical ballet barre moves are just using the barre to help with balance so you can definitely do a full classical barre with your pole 🙂
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A studio I use to teach at actually served champagne at their party’s! I told them it was stupid and illegal. If I’m teaching a party and suspect girls under the influence i don’t let them on the polw because I request they be sober when they sign up for the party. No one wants to hobble down the isle because of mixing alcohol and pole!
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Training routines now for a comp (!!) So I’m poling 3-5 days a week, I usually start with a quick warm up then get right into my list of tricks or moves I want to work that day. Once I get frustrated with my lack of trickyness, I work on some freestyle dance transitions and try to come up with soething unique. At the end I run routines (or what currently exists of them) for stamina and flidity. I end with flexibility when I’m warm. I like to add pointe work into my warm ups some days or do some vertical barre.
I also do silks 1-3 times a week, and lyra 1-3 times a week. Also have been doing yoga at home 1-5 times a week and ballet beautiful, and the regular gym 2-3 a week. …whew! Amazing that I’m still overweight right? -
Definitely perkier and a bit bigger now to the point that I had to go up a size! Oye the girla get in the way sometimes!
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I love the sad girl drop, Holly drop and superman fall lately. Would love to get the darn machine gun and find a way to drop haha!
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Fluidity and adding more of my dance background in. I look back at my first pole vids and I’m like eehhh no musicality and just lots of tricks! Also building up my stamina to pole longer1
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Yea Mary Ellen I agree with that too, I’ve taken workshops from great performers that weren’t as good at teaching and left me dissapointed. I guess what we can learn is that there no specific pinpointed list of things that can guarantee that someone is a great instructor, except to do your own research and come to your own conclusion.
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I think everyone has their valid points, however I do not believe that a certification makes someone a better teacher then someone uncertified. First off, who do you think creates all these certifications? Pole dancers with a lot of experience! And who certified them? No one, because they invented it. Unless of course they did personal training certs. While I've heard that many certifications have had wonderful impacts on pole professionals, which is great, I think nothing beats well rounded experience. And just because someone can hang a shingle and own a studio doesn't make them a great teacher either. Almost every studio I have worked at has taught students wrong technique like jumping into inverts (!!!!) which I've had to go back and correct. Some studios leave out crucial strength building moves and even choreography and dance moves, and just jump from trick to trick with no prepping for those more advance tricks. I taught at one studio that never taught students a basic crucifix, but went from invert, to CAR, to Superman….I was baffled on how this syllabus worked! I think nothing beats experience and someone who has been in the industry for a long time. I did competitive gymnastics and dance since I was 3, and took gymnastics spotting classes when i helped coach the younger girls. I was primarily self taught pole, but when I got my first teaching offer I spent months developing a syllabus that worked and made sense. I did research on every level I had access for (loooong before certs even existed). I took every workshop available, and still do when I can afford it. I've been poling for 8 years now, and teaching for 5. I've even compared my syllabus and methods right along side with some of the certification books, and am proud to see that I teach correctly! I did a LOT of research into it and came up with something great, and am very proud of it. I think it also helps when an instructor is passionate about what they do and it shows, I get so excited when a student succeeds! Safety first is something that should be looked at when looking at a potential instructor. Are students rushing into more advance moves too fast? Or are they taking the time to develop in to strong and confident dancers, and find their own style? If I could afford to take a certification course, I'm not saying that I wouldn't because we can always be learning and I love to learn the most I possible can. Also in the aerial industry, most coaches do not have certifications. My aerial coach is a comprehensive teacher and performer, and excellent at it. I'm in training with her to become an aerial teacher also. It takes time and experience, so if you are looking into those area's for a qualified instructor, here is a great article: http://www.laurawitwer.com/2011/08/04/choose-an-awesome-aerial-coach-instead-of-a-sucky-one/
Just my 2 cents, not saying everyone has to agree
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I go through an array of emotions before a performance! Nerves, panic, all the what ifs. …so I usually stretch, listen to my music and pretty much pretend I’m alone back there hiding to try to calm myself! Then if someone starts talking to me I usually go on and on like a psycho chatterbox lol which calms my nerves a bit!
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Wow!!! I just need to attempt a fonji first *scared*
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I've been batteling the whole "what to do with my life" arguement for the past few years and it actually is leading me to a lot of anxiety and constant worry. I was in retail jewelery for about 7 years on and off, mostly with the same company, but moved a few times, and went through a big break up which made me move back home, broke, and having to quit the store I worked at that was really enjoyable and the people I worked with were great. After I finished school, which took like 6 years to get an Associates in Fine Art because I had so many changes in my major because I had no clue what to do, I worked in more retail which was awful and was treated like crap. I got another jewelry job with the same company that I had been with before, but it was a verrry slow store with a ton of drama and peole constantly gossiping and causing problems, including dragging me in to it and calling me a stripper. I have consistantly taught pole over the past 5 years but have ended up leaving almost every studio that I've been with for not being good engough in the owners eyes, which is a huge knock on my self esteme which just seems to get lower and lower as the years go by. (Trying to change that!) So anyway, right before this past Christmas, we get told our store is closing because it's not busy enough, but we were PROMISED to be transfered to another sister store, and closer to home….yay! I was so happy to have a better opportunity because I was dreading going to work every day. I fractured my foot about 2 weeks before Christmas, so it made running around the store very painful and pretty much impossible as I was ordered to stay off my feet. Right after Christmas I was told I was the only one not getting transfered and they were letting me go because my numbers over the hollidays were the lowest in the store….no questions asked, nothing I could do and no one to reason with over it. Hello??!! I had a broken foot!!! This devastated me and I had a nervous breakdown, suffered from severe depression and felt like all i do is FAIL at everything I do. I've been teaching pole for about 6 months at a wonderful studio and have amazing students, which is probably the only reason I've stayed sane is my pole and aerial silks training. I'm on unemployment now, because I just don't know where to go from here. I want to go back to school to get a bachellors or beyond in art and design. I really love graphic design, even though I know that may not be a perfect career, but I will feel much more accomplished if I can manage to get into a program and graduate and hopefully get a job in the field instead of continuing with retail going nowhere hell! I don't know if I will get in to any colleges, but I'm sure going to try. Right now, I'm just trying to work on me and getting my mindset back to a healthy and positive one. All I do is cut myself down and feel inferior, and I know that needs to change. Even if I did manage to get another jewelry job full time, I don't think I could handle it mentally right now, and then would have no time to focus on my portfolio required to get in to school! I was running myself dry working 2 jobs every day with an hour commute. I still don't know what I'm going to do when unemployment runs out, hopefully I will be teaching full time so I don't have to get another miserable retail job and feel "stuck" again. Sorry this is so long, it kinda felt good to get it out!!
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Yea Amy I wish I could come too, but I won’t go there either 🙁 unfortunately the closest place for me to go to workshops is either Boston or western CT! Wish I could go to more!
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Stupid Janerio!!!! Can't get my butt around the pole and keep missing the "shelf" that the arm creates! Also the Machine gun…Similar problem! My Titanic is on and off too, never consistant, no problem on brass pole at one studio, and a total fail at another on chrome…sigh!
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Melly, you don’t need a liscence to teach pole! There’s a lot of different certification programs out there but as long as you do a lot of research on how to teach, and are good at breaking moves down and come up with a comprehensive syllabus that moves are safely built on each other, I don’t see why you couldn’t teach. 🙂
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My facebook is Alicia Heaney 🙂 hope everyone was safe in the storm!