CapFeb
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@teapartie: I can do spins with momentum on a static pole fine. But I feel as though they look rediculous. Chair spin on static as compared to chair spin on spinning looks bad in my opinion. It’s completely possible to any of the spins I listed on static or spinning. But there are some spins that I see preformed almost exclusive on static (reverse grab, for example) and I’m basically asking for suggestions on similar spins :p
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I’d really like to try the black and blue. Shipping to Hawaii is expensive, though? What about shipping from?
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I’ve never considered myself flexible, but I guess I am. It took me about a month to get my forward splits (left foot leading). I just looked up “how to do the splits” online, and did the recommended stretching excessize every day for four weeks, usually right before bed. I’m working on the side splits right now (I think that’s what they’re called, every time I see them I just think of Carrot Top…) but not I’m not so fierce about getting them as I was with the left foot leading splits.
Also: Keeping yourself super hydrated really really helps. I didn’t drink hardly any water when I learned left. Now I’m learning right, and drinkingwater seems to have made stretching keep it’s….stretch? Longer, and with more effect.
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My nick name since middle school has been “Feb.” But my stage name has been Caprica for the past three month. Unfortunately, being a reference to a syfy show, I don’t think I’ll stick with it for fear of being sued :p
If I did pet/street, my name would be Sasha Cheyenne. Which is alright, except Sasha is traditionally a Russian BOY name.
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Everyone learns at their own pace. I’ve been inverting for a week, and poleing for 3 months. But I pole more often than I should, if that even sounds right (4 times a week for like, 3 hours split up…I get little motivation spikes and have to go pole.) I also did 2 weeks of nothing but core/abs training, not even touching a pole. My invert is…somewhere between sloppy and decent. But the more you practice, the better you get. They used to just be terrible :p
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Yeah, I’m pretty sure it won’t dent your ceiling, but I’m not sure about the artex :/
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This might seem like a dumb thing to say, but are you using your hands, and if so, have you tried a new grip while inverted? I haven’t summoned up the courage to attempt jade yet, but from pike to gemini, my leg was catching until I distributed the weight on my hands differently. I’m not sure what the grip is called, but instead of doing the same grip you do in chopper, I put my left hand facing thumbs up and my right hand under my back facing thumbs down.
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Both times I’ve bought my poles, it has been from women in apartments who have used half inch boards to distribute pressure. From ten minutes of watching them take down the pole, I had noticed no ceiling dents, but they both had carpet indentations (the same ones you get from having a couch in one place, I assume they go away.) I personally have not had an issue with like…circular denting? But my pole is in a water damaged area of my garage. And that entire quarter of my garage has domed upwards. Even when I take my pole down my ceiling just sits there like, “HAHA, NOPE, PERPETUALLY CURVED, ENJOY ME LOOKING ODD.”
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yeah, I learned the hard way not to rush moves. At almost the end of my second month, I thought that I could just teach myself inverting. And I ended up ripping my rotator cuff. So I was off the pole for about a month and a half, and for the first two weeks it hurt too much to even bend and stretch my legs, let alone shoulders or torso. So a month into recovery, I started just doing crunches, reverse crunches, and leg lifts on my pole low to the ground. I did these for two weeks, and just got back to poleing last week. And decided I could try an invert with my new and improved core strength. I didn’t want to jump into it, I wanted it to be slow and controlled, so I started in the air. And the rest way history :p it’s not very pretty, and I need to work on keeping my hips level and straight as I tend to left one leg infront of the other as opposed to lifting both legs at the same time. But I think that it will get better the more I do it. You know, as soon as my pole burn goes away haha.
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I actually just did the scorpio and the gemini last night. I’ve been poleing for about two months and decided that I might try inverting in the air and not from the ground. And that worked pretty well. I’ve been doing them all day today and have pole burn–but it’s actually not on my thigh. I have pole burn on my right outer under arm? I would almost rather have it on my thigh though, the half bruising looks so awkward :/
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Personally, Brass is my favorite. When I first started poleing, it was at a friend of a friend's apartment. She had a brass x-pole. She taught me how to climb, a few beginner spins, pike and variations of sit. I looovveeed pole. So I went and bought a chrome x-pole, thinking that I could carefully train myself while visiting and learning from professionals at a local studio.
Same climate and same diameter as my friend's pole. But I cannot stand chrome.
It was impossible for me to climb it for about…a month? Any move preformed on my brass pole takes three times the amount of time to adapt on chrome. I have no grip, climbing is difficult if I have even the slightest bruise, and not to mention little helpers like vinyl (I think that's also the tac on mighty grip) make the LOUDEST noise when contact is taken away from the pole. I had to wear vinyl boots until I developed a stupid amount of upper body strength to be able to climb my chrome x-pole, and every time I would disconnect my leg from the pole, it sounded like someone was ripping paper. Slowly. LOUDLY. Not to mention, I still had to squeeze extra hard as opposed to chrome. If I wore my boots on brass, it made no sound, and the grip was perfect for my legs if I felt lazy and didn't feel like applying pressure 😛
I have not tried SS. Though everyone at my studio says it's more slippery than chrome. Which, given my experience with chrome, makes that hard to believe..
