Anzia
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Yesterday I did 3 hours volunteering at a nearby fayre, then ate cakes and drank wine instead of poling. Today is a new start! (The cakes were pretty good though!)
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Hope you feel better soon SToast. That sounds awful.
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Good luck Amani and Slkysmth! I too like idea of written goals (which apparently research has shown makes you 30% more likely to achieve them than if you just think about them) so I’m pinching the idea of a goals poster in my living room where I pole. And a ‘combos to try’ list! And a pole practice journal lol!
Slkysmth, I’d forgotten about spin pole. That’s another one I need to add. -
Wild Lotus, wow! Impressively organised! You’ll make fab progress with that schedule. Keep us updated 🙂
Sierra, that sounds so painful 🙁 Glad it’s better now. It’s soooo frustrating being forced to take time off.
I managed some better inverts in class tonight though they’re still not back where they were.
I’m taking tomorrow off from pole as my upper back has worked hard the last two evenings and I’m feeling it, but I’ll do wrists, hamstrings and abs in the morning and some stretches in the eve. That’s the plan, anyway 😀 -
I’ll follow you on IG 🙂 I’m __Anzia__ but I haven’t posted anything myself yet due to cowardice lol.
SToast – thanks! Not sure anyone else would recognise it as fls yet to be honest but at least it’s a start!
Dustbunny, what a lovely description. Autumn and winter are my favourite times of year 🙂 -
I think I’m getting my mojo back. Good class tonight and for once I’m looking forward to practising some more at home 🙂
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Feeling really happy! I did butterfly to flatline scorpio twice on each side!!! Messy and awkward, but at least I’ve got something to improve on now. Also did some stretching.
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Did a bit of arms/back flex before bed, and then in a burst of enthusiasm I’ve just done wrists and abs before work!
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Congratulations to your friend SToast!
My friend postponed our pole jam (she’s got snowboarding injuries) until tomorrow eve, so I’ve done wrist exercises and abs towards getting a handstand, and shoulder mount prep from the floor. Guess I’m still a bit ill cos I feel like a wet noodle too and it was hardly a long workout! Tomorrow – butterfly to flatline scorpio. My friend can spot me! -
Woooooo! Hi everyone 🙂
My friend’s coming over tonight for a pole jam so hopefully I’ll have another progress update later tonight… -
Sounds great SToast! Good luck! I did my session tonight. Warm up, beginner and novice moves from my studio’s ‘moves guide’ and then on to inverts… when I had a nasty shock at how much strength I’ve lost during my time off with the viruses. Talk about weak! So I scaled back and tried to get one good invert on each side instead. By then I felt like a chewed up piece of string, so no freestyling either. Grrrrrr. I hope I get strong again quickly!
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Happy birthday! Have a fantastic day!
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Oh! Okay, my mistake 🙂
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I’m a paid-up-and-totally-loving-the-lessons member, and I’ll be keeping on renewing. My only suggestion is to offer a pay monthly membership. I’m fortunate that I can pay a yearly fee in one go (though I was very grateful for the $20 discount – thank you for running offers so regularly). However for some people $99 or even $79 is a steep outlay all in one go. A monthly fee giving (30 days?) access for, say, $9 would perhaps be helpful. This also gives people an affordable but good length ‘trial period’ for their first membership that they can choose to keep renewing or not. Another site I’m on (not a pole site) offers monthly, three monthly, six monthly, yearly and two yearly options. That’s probably more than is needed here, but the number of more-or-less permanent members on there, who are all using a variety of membership periods, shows that smaller but more frequent payments works better for a lot of them.
And this seems a good opportunity to say thank you again to you and Veena for creating and maintaining such a fantastic community and lessons. Thanks so much for the work you put in! -
Sending energy for Scarlett. Thinking of you and your family x
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A friend and I are considering going next year. If you do go, let me know how you find it!
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Could it be a strength thing with your arms? I ask because I used to find the same thing. For the first climb you have the floor to push on as well as your arms to pull with. And then your legs (which for many people are stronger than their arms) can grip on the pole to take your body weight. But a second climb, and all the ones after that, rely much more on arm strength to pull up. And if you don’t get the lower arm quite right, your body dangles against the pole instead of slightly out from it, making it really hard to get a quick and strong knee grip to push up with. You’re left trying to grip and push with your thighs which can leave your body weight still dangling mostly on your arms again. If that might be what it is, what I did was:
– Pole holds and pole tucks (in Veena’s lessons) to build arm strength.
– Checked my arm position for best lower arm placement to keep my body slightly out from the pole as I pull up (i.e. lower arm’s forearm pressed into the pole).
– Kept practising even if for every climb after the first one I wasn’t going anywhere or even sliding down the pole! I just kept doing the movement anyway on the grounds that even if I wasn’t successfully climbing, I was still building strength and movement memory.
– Sometimes it’s sheer repetition. I could not side climb, not even one step. It was my nemesis move because I was taking my studio’s novice medal in 4 days and had to do 3 side climb steps to pass. I tried 15 times on end in one practice session, telling myself I was going to do it, stopping was not an option, and managed my 3 steps on both sides. That was definitely a mental ‘just do it’ breakthrough!
If you post a video, people on here might be able to see what could help? Good luck 🙂
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I’ve had a week off now with a bug… haven’t been poling either. Weak and headachey/queasy 🙁 But I’m thinking about where to go with this anyway because I mentioned it to my physio and she said she recommended increasing load rather than endurance based on my description of what pole dancing involves for me. She said I should, for example, bridge with a weight on my core, and increase the weight each time I do it rather than the length of time. Apparently that will improve my pole performance more than doing the move for longer. (This obviously may only apply to me based on what I do in classes and with what she knows about my body’s strengths and weaknesses – I’m not saying everyone should!) Anyway, the bug is finally going and I will make pole class tonight and decide what to do. I think in general I’ve been doing lots of exercise (sometimes finishing at 11.30 pm) and the physio has challenged me to exercise smarter rather than longer and to really focus on what will have maximum benefit for my specific strength/flexibility issues. It’s true I haven’t previously had specific goals for pole. When I sat down on Sunday and worked out my goals, some of the challenges didn’t contribute to them at all and neither did some of my other fitness stuff. Lots for me to think about!
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Hi and welcome! 🙂
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The Switch is in the Conditioning videos section if that helps 🙂 I think (?) they’re grouped by body part being tortured (strengthened) so similar ones would be near it in the list. I could be wrong on that, though!
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I love having the lessons. I’m really impressed with their structure and quality. Several times, I’ve been able to get a move only after looking at Veena’s tutorial, despite taking classes too! I really recommend them 🙂
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I love how positive and resilient you are! It’s really inspirational. You are totally going to nail those handstands because of the effort you’ll put in, and it will be so well deserved. Go you!
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Good luck! Like someone above said, I sometimes have my arms flat on the forearm with palms resting on the floor, and sometimes use the side of my forearms with the outer edges of my hands resting on the floor. Either way seems pretty neutral for my wrists so hopefully you’ll find it a comfortable exercise. Well, comfortable other than your upper arms, abs and legs all screaming at you lol.
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I’ll check that. Thanks ferrous! Day off on most of them today. I just had to do tricep dips and push ups. Back to the killer 161 sec plank tomorrow, eeeek.
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Android 🙂
