Angel1201
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What type of EDS do you have? I suspect I have type 2 or 3. I am waiting for my dr appt. in November to be sure. I have neurally mediated hypotension and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and I’ve read that EDS and NMH can be linked. I black out several times a day when I stand up and have chronic fatigue syndrome. I am also very flexible, my fingers and toes bend backwards and my thumbs can touch my forearms. Luckily I don’t have dislocations but I do have very stretchy skin. Be careful girl! Maybe you need to wear a brace while you are stretching…
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I so love Bobbi! Looks like she’s in new studio space??
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Mini, how bout we work out a deal. My ticket in exchange for ad space. I’d like a half page ad. The ticket cost $71 with all the fees so we cam just work out the difference. What say u??
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Hey everyone! I won’t be doing any workshops (just did becca butcher’s and Kyra + Marlo’s doubles workshop at EMW – you can’t go wrong for $40). I will be at the competition though. In fact I have an extra ticket if anyone still needs one. Let me know if any of you are interested. Since I live an hour away, I’ll be driving there and back that day.
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Reenie, I’m a 34D or a 36C chest and my waist is 28". My weight goes between 125-129. I tried the snow white on again last night and the skirt is really roomy. The top is tightn me but I have implants so most tops are a tough fit on me anyway. The arm cuffs fit. I didn’t realize you aren’t supposed to put them over your biceps. they go over the elbow according to the picture and they fit just fine. I’d say the cups in the top are a B-C.
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I was lucky enough to have front row seats! I knew enough to book a workshop with her prior to her win and I’m so glad I did! She taught us all her tricks and such from her performance including the amazing fan kick to scorpio drop – you need a wierd inside arm grip to pull it off and I’ve never used it before. She was humble and had no airs about her, she really just had a pure and innocent spirit about her. She was very loving with the class and fun to work with! She’s a lot smaller than I thought she’d be from her videos! Pure muscle from head to toe! And the workshops was, get this, only 40 bucks!!! Yeah for the PFA! The whole event was much cheaper than any uspdf related activity! They ENCOURAGED us to film and post! I had front row seats for only 45 and like I said, affordable workshops! The whole weekend rocked and the energy of the whole event felt so nice!!! Becca was the highlight though with her insane performance. I’ve been rooting for her for years b/c she’s competed in Pole Superstar and USPDF with no recognition. Her Amateur performance in NYC this past March for USPDF was incredible but again, no prize, so she totally deserved this win! I’m so excited for her! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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Thanks Phoenix, that was so helpful! Reenie, I’d ship to CA no problem. The pirate costume will be more expensive to ship because of the hat which is fairly large although it is light. I’d say the pirate costume is the least ‘small’ of the three I have. The Marine one is stretchy but when I tried it on it was smaller and shorter than I expected. I’m a size 2-4 US sizes. The Snow White costume is a no go for me b/c the arm cuffs don’t fit me being muscular and having thicker arms. The rest of the snow white costume fits though and the skirt is pretty roomy. But they all say size small on the tags – US small and Pheonix’s size chart is pretty accurate! The marine costume to me seems to be an extra-small! Hope this helps!
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When I was instructing at a local studio, the pay was $12 per hour plus $1 per student. Sometimes only one student showed up so I made a whopping $13 per hour essentially for a private lesson. Totally sucked but since I have a professional full time job with a great salary I did it for the love of it. We were strictly prohibited from discussing salary with anyone else on staff. I think some of the others made $10 per hour and some of the others made more if they had a cert when hired. When I began I had no fitness credentials but did earn an ACE group fitness and pole position fitness cert. I no longer work there and the pay is one of the reasons. I taught the advanced classes and I spent alot of my own time and money preparing myself to teach that level. The studios (Xposefitness.com) in my near local area charge between $8-$11 per 50 minute class. Sometimes you can buy a class for closer to $7 buck if you get a special. As a result, instructor pay is very low. I hear the Xpose girls make closer to $20 or more per hour because they have a lot of volume and the instructors earn more if they have more students.
Hope this helps.
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You’ve got something special! You won my vote! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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Hey pp15171! I would expect that a pole teacher should be able to do floor work, one-handed spins, combination spins, CKRs, CARs, climbs, basic inverts, knee hangs, superman, catepillar climb – you get the idea. No need to do the spatchcock or death lay!
Katana, the trainings will be on weekends because I work full time during the week. You would take the written exam and submit videos after you returned home.
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I’m within driving distance! Yay! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
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Sorry Saldivar, I sold it already!
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My other thought is the protection of thier jobs but the performers are women and men who work there – whether its an instructor, owner or front desk. If they worked there, they are allowed to compete.
When I said protect their jobs, I meant their other jobs, not the ones at the studio. I would get fired from my full-time professional job for pole dancing in public and so would many other girls I know. We dance in secret https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_batman.gif so competing isn’t really an option for me.
I think it’s a good idea to see the owners face to face. Some of them just might need to have their arms twisted just a little. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_rambo.gif
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Hey Lou, I used to work at one of the studios in Maryland that you probably contacted. I know the owner had felt that the other local studios resented her opening up. It seems to me like there is bad blood between a lot of studios because they ‘steal’ business from one another. Perhaps this is one of the reasons you are having trouble getting them to join in? Their relationships just aren’t friendly at all. It’s just all bad politics.
Another factor may be that a lot of students who come to pole class enjoy the privacy of having no men present and/or they may actually need it to protect their jobs?? There is one dancer at my old studio who is FANTASTIC, I mean she could easily go pro. We’ve tried over and over to get her to compete and she refuses. She just doesn’t want to put herself out there.
What if you made this the Maryland Pole Dancing Championship or the DelMarVa Championships? Each competitor could ‘represent’ a studio??
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I heard he calls it that, but to me it doesn’t seem like a title. Lots of spins are dangerous!
Speaking of the iron X, Veena are you lifting into it or are you coming out of an inversion to go into it? I’ve been trying it both ways. Inversion to Iron X works better for me, I have a hard time getting the lift from standing.
From standing some lift with their belly up:
a la XXXBex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDr08nCs8Lc&videos=JxnSp24QhwYothers lift more sideways or even belly down:
a la Sarah Cretul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ko6rX76r0 (1 minute or so in)Belly up is working better for me however, I just float to a certain point and then I can’t lift up anymore. Anybody have any thoughts? I must need to work on my lat strength.
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Hey, awesome X Veena. That’s such a tough one!!
I saw Leigh Ann do that spin you are talking about in this vid at 2:35 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og9iSNqHH_4&videos=hVo9E3VmBQk I’ve been teaching it in my advanced workshops. I call it the lifted reverse hook to knee hang. I wonder what the "official" name is?? You can end on either knee depending on if you want to switch legs at the end or not. It’s such a wow trick, everyone loves it. You have to start high enough so you don’t hit your head on the floor – as I found out when I was trying to figure it out!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_safesex.gif
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Here’s my post for making your own pole. Permanent would be the only option for this one. YOu could change the size, pole material, or make it static only. This particular post is for making a 38 mm brass spinny. I have links to the websites where I purchased materials. I think the whole shebang cost me under $250.
https://www.studioveena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2270
Good luck!! I absolutely love my do-it-yourself pole! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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I can only make it part of the first week and part of the second! I’m a chicken for going places alone, but I may have to! Wish I could have met you there Gymmeke! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cool.gif
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Cool! I thought Sarah ‘retired’??? I’ve had workshops with both. They have very different teaching styles. Pantera is very professional and all about building strength. She didn’t show me a lot of tricks, we focused on slow, controlled movement and core building. Very helpful!! Sarah was silly and fun and was open to teaching anything the crowd wanted. They are both so immensly talented on the pole!! You guys are going to have a great time!! Jealous!
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poledanceromance said:
Just a quick bang(that’s what she said)–it’s not the pressure that releases it, it’s hitting it really fast….(that’s what she said)
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You pervette!!
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Hi girl, Lord to be so young!! I’m 39 and was teaching advanced pole 3 times a week plus one hour yoga and two hours chair dance. I was pretty exhausted and sore too. I learned to listen to my body and I asked for less hours (pay was crap) as I have a full time professional job and all that strain on my body wasn’t worth it to me. I noticed you wrote that you eat this: "cereal, ramen noodles and frozen pizzas". That’s a whole lot of non-nutritious carbs going down!! Where are your fruit, veggies and whole grains?? Plus PROTEIN and IRON!!! You may indeed have an iron deficiency!! I do/did too. Do you eat any red meat? I find meat pretty gross so my doctor told me to take Feosol supplements – you can get them at the drug store. A lack of iron = a lack of energy because you won’t have the red blood cells to carry needed oxygen around your body! It also sounds like you need to let your body rest and heal in between workouts. Rest and recovery is just as important as exercise. Give yourself a day in between intense workouts. Maybe you could change your teaching schedule? Three hours in a row Friday night followed by a Saturday shift (I had the same schedule) is just wrong for your body. You are the instructor and so you are an essential piece of that studio. Without your body in good healthy condition, class is not enjoyable for you. Why suffer?? It also may not be enjoyable for your students when they pick up on the fact that you are tired and in pain and would rather be in bed.
Also, as for lactic acid, research does not show a link between that and soreness. Read here: http://judoinfo.com/soreness.htm. The soreness you feel is most likely muscle cell damage and inflammation especially if you are doing a lot of the eccentric work that we most of us do in pole (think slowly releasing back down from a shoulder mount). For me, one of the best things I can do when I feel this soreness is light exercise or gentle yoga. I’ll take the dogs for a walk, do some sun salutations, jump on my rebounder or hula for a bit. Does wonders for the soreness. Good luck honey! Now listen to this old lady and go eat something nutritious LOL https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
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Yelena, before your feet leave the ground you have to tilt your butt past your head. Do you see how I tilted my butt almost all the way toward the pole yet my head and elbows are further away? That tilt is key.
Before ever touching a pole I did A LOT of yoga. There is an elbow stand in yoga that is almost the exact same thing. I had worked on that ages ago, but could just barely get my feet up and then I’d topple over. I think that practice helped me nail it in the pole room. Here is a tutorial for a yoga elbowstand that you might like to use to practice. Once you can do it in the way they do it in the video (bending the knees to lift the legs) you can work on lifting your unbent legs.
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http://ver3.studioveena.com/lessons/view/4286
Hi, I do an elbow stand about halfway through this vid (before the barking ensues https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_silent.gif). Is that the type of elbow stand you are talking about? It isn’t easy and it is really going to depend on your core strength. For mine, I don’t touch the poles with my hands and your legs need to open and rise sideways. You can practice against a wall for safety and have a friend spot you and assist your lift. There seems to be a sticking point about half way up, but once you get past it your golden https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif. Good luck!
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Hopefully Veena chimes in. She has four kids I think – her youngest is the reason we have this site!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
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Hey sosagely – Check your messages. I sent you some info about the webcam! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
