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I love a local pole studio's decore. It's very classy, even though there's animal print (Animal print has always been trashy to me for whatever reason.)
It's purple, grey, and zebra print. I'll try to dig up some pictures…
http://prowesspolefitness.com/our-studio/
If I had a pole studio or workspace, I would want the option to have lots of lighting or dim lighting (the christmas lights) at my leisure :3 But I feel like white works best. My home studio is pink and white and silver themed.
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bipolar and depression, anxiety, etc, are all horomone related illnesses. Lack of certain chemicals getting to the brain. It's like being diabetic, but with electric inpulses and brain chemicals. Or so that was how it was described to me by a therapist.
Addiction is an illness that can be fixed but only if the person wants it to be. More cruel methods that have since been phased out (shock treatment for addiction) didn't do anything but send a signal to that persons body, if I do X then Z is the result. It didn't stop them from wanting it any more or less, they just stopped following through with it.
Art is meant to help people. Whether it's dance or pole or singing, it can help someone get over a traumatic experience. Pole dancing is healing for almost everyone woman who posts actively at SV. "I feel so strong/beautiful/important/graceful/etc". Feelings that we otherwise wouldn't have found in any other activity EVER.
But for people who find that they're good at something, and are told their entire life (or the vast majority of it) that the have "talent" and they're good at it and get boxed into persuing only that thing, living, eating, breathing it until their dying breath, I'm sure it's very stressful.
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Creative geniuses often times have severe mental and personality disorders, so I definitely agree that creative people (non-genius) would either be prone to mental illness or have smaller emotional disorders.
I read a statistic that said artistic genius' was anywhere between 50% to 20% (depending on field of genius) more likely to be bipolar
That article linked to a second one on a more medical cased website, but the link seems to have broken.
Regardless of facts you can find on the internet, I'd definitely believe it. Creativity is the minds ability to push past boundaries. How many times have you seen a variation of a pole move and thought, "why didn't I think of that, I could definitely do it" (example: Orion), Someone who is genius sees those things every day and struggles with people not seeing what they see, and having to explain it to other people either through dumbing it down or expressing it in a way that other people can understand through dance or other mediums.
Someone who is "creative" I would assume gets brief glances of what things SHOULD be like around them/for them and makes steps to accomplish them. When you're constantly going through yourself and matching yourself up to the outside world to express yourself, you're body is going through a lot. Chemically and mentally. It doesn't make anyone "bad" or "disgusting" for being creative and having some mental downfalls, regardless of if those bumps are small hiccups or large mountains (after all, Salvador Dali was by all stretches of the word "insane"). It's just a part of the package that those people learn to embrace :3
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Oh wow! I looked at trashy months back for personal lingerie before I started dancing, but all of their costumes seem legit
also, tea, the “animal” sets seem to be really popular this year. I was thinking about being a Hello Kitty but realized I’m spending the next three weeks at home resting or working :/
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The MLP from Bad Kitty? What does yours look like?
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Yeah, I have a pair of plain black shoes. I wasn’t sure about the ankle strap either. I’ve never bought shoes without them but borrowed a pair once for work and just used ties to keep them on and it worked fine
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SO many typos, but I was really excited to talk to people about costumes and Halloween. All of my friends are "Bleh" about Halloween :<
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I challenge myself as hard as I can with…
spins!
While inverting and different mounts are really impressive, I love the feeling of….hm…I don’t even know the word–fluidity I feel when I string together a nice combo of pirouette variations and spins. The first pole move I ever wanted to learn was the pretzel spin, and while I can’t currently preform any one handed spins, when I can put that stress on my arm again it will definitely be a move I will force myself to learn 🙂 spin fluidity is something so overlooked by the community sometimes when a majority of the competitive scene has turned into almost strictly vertical gymnastics with one or two floorwork transitions. Honestly, I think I personally shy away from floorwork because it has the word “work” in it :p
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😀 Yay! Thank you and SV for presenting the opportunity and I hope that I am able to take full advantage of the scholarship and fufill my goals. Try hard time!
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I don’t have implants but i got boob bruises from flag to brass monkey. A lot of girls I work with are able to do flag with implants and I’ve neverr seen them rupture or had issues or heard of something like that happening
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OR YOU KNOW, TRIPLE POST. Dammit phone |:
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Oh my goodness I’ll have to sub….that pumpkin pie smoothie recipe might ruin me 😐 In all the right ways
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Oh my goodness I’ll have to sub….that pumpkin pie smoothie recipe might ruin me 😐
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Oh my goodness I’ll have to sub, that pumpkin pie smoothie recipe.
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Point being (because my phone submits onl half of the message) go where you want, teach where you want. But remember that some places aren’t a “family” and are just a bunch of rude catty women trying to run a business for the money (I’ve seen series packages as expensive as $300 for beginner….)
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I go to studios when I travel, and I’m thinking about only sticking to the studio here in phoenix (but it’s hard when there aren’t any intermediate/adv classes) and Poletential (I go for open pole and it’s AMAZING people are SO helpful!) in the bay area when I go vacationing. The last studio I visited in phx was so rude to me it was unbelievable. The teacher refused to call me anything but a beginner student (because you know, beginners have a strong aerial invert and reverse iguana mount) and asked me to buy her beginner series before moving to intermediate. There are only one or two intermediate moves I can’t do (excluding knee holds) due to not be super flexy. Even her website makes her come off as a word I don’t use often. And she’s trained all of her instructors to talk smack about the two other studios in the area. Oh, and one of her instructors came into my workplace and called me a slut for being an exotic dancer over just teaching pole and doing it for fitness in my basement like everyone else. I’ve been burned from studios losing workshop spaces and also rude business owners to even think about going to a new studio,.
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Whenever I have a pole dream I feel weightless and such, but it's never not doing tricks I've never done before. It's always the same ones that I can do, but no one is watching me. I get frustrated at first, but then don't care because I'm poling for me.
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Hm. What kind of toothpaste are you using? I want to try.
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I feel like my body isn't made to pole in certain positions—I have an hourglass figure anatomically–the amount of fat on my body won't change that my chest and my hips are the exact same length around my body. It makes things like Roxy and Flying Ballerina impossible because the pole presses into my ribs. Worst pain I've ever felt my life. But I could be doing it wrong, because I'm close to neither.
BUT. There's still many things that are super easy for me to do. I can't name very many things that people just do (like playing an instrument or singing or dancing or painting) and most things take work. Some aspects are just more difficult than the others, and practice makes perfect.
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You know, I read an artical about this sort of thing the other day:
I'm not sure how much of it is true/false/half of both the information is, but I found it interesting and thought it tied into the conversation really well. And also, I'd love to participate 😀
My small goal is actually to help myself before I help others (I'm kinda a doormat) and I guess I'll make a fitness goal too….I'll work up my pull-ups :3
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I've seen Maneula do that one. It looks like you can just practice it from the ground by gradually take your assiting arm away from the pole from chair.
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Oh, you're the artist! My pole dance instructor showed me your superman comic my first day of pole class! But I figured it was just a one time thing, not a fully-developed comic series. I'm so glad you decided to continue with it, I read through all of them tonight and they are so great and true and it's just really nice to have it put into a visualization. Gamer's have their memes and athlete's have theirs. It's nice for an artist to put it into perspective for people who might not poledance. 😀 Thank you so much for sharing your awesome work and I'm definitely subscribing for more amazing truths in the future.
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I might be a little bit behind the curve here, but last I heard xpole was not shipping brass to the USA? Or did that change recently?
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I can't do kneehold…I've been trying to get an exact Gemini climb on both side because you can get a lot of strength and pre-bruising to help deal with the pain from the climb..but I just get into cupid and feel like I'm going to fall on my face. Also, my feet sweat on the bottom |: Not good for cupid or special k.
I've been trying recently to do Aysha as well, and I did it twice on brass, and can't get comfortable on chrome. My bottom hand slides so much upsidedown, and even when my hands are stuck to the pole, I can't find balance. So I switched to trying to master elbowstand and headstand thinking that maybe if I get used to my feet being above my head, I will be able to balance easier in Aysha since it's almost like a headstand?
I'm also always thinking about how to make NEW moves/variations from other moves. Like the other day, since cross knee release is easy to me, I was thinking of ways that I could maybe curl my body around to make it like half CKR half closed leg hang. Flexibility is needed, but it's a goal I can achieve and something I haven't seen anyone else do, which for me is motivation enough :3
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I think I will try this next week. My friend is giving me her foam roller. I feel like I will be inclined to stretch with a shiney new toy to further relax my muscles.
