Charley
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I have heard of yoga studios doing $30/hour and extra $$$ per head after 10 students. I think this is to compensate instructors who work hard to promote and fill their classes.
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…Uhhh.
I dunno. Talk to Charley? She knows everything.…..
… and Lyme disease is a bitch if you don’t completely get it out of your system, so just .. stay in bed. Please. I know a girl who has perma-lyme.. or whatever the hell they call it when you have it, even though you took care of it. And she’s just as bad off as someone with Lupus. So yeah. Stay in bed.
LOL! There’s a lot I don’t know like how to deal with Lime Disease. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
As far as pay…Most places here pay $25/hour to teach ftness classes. My deal is I get 50% of booking…this is because I handle the youtube, the facebook, event planning, booking people like Karol to come visit us and a million other sales related things.
If you are doing a lot of the sales/promotion end of things then I would ask for comission, if you just go and teach, nothing else is required $20-$25/ hr is fair.
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KAROL IS PERFORMING https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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nymph, I would sooo love it you would perform. I already have people to video.
Chemmie…all but 2 of the girls on the roster are on this site – some not as active as others. How would we go about doing a live feed?
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Hey Polerbaby, did you hear about the pole showcase Sunday night? We have 10 polers and some other acts, wanna be in it?
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I have taught classes with only 4 poles and 3 to a pole…it’s a different teaching style and I did find that for me I felt like we focused more on tricks than movement. This worked fine. I had a lot a huge percentage of retention and the girls made friends. It was a good environment. The bad things was classes were 90 minutes, sometimes longer and the major issue was people coming late or having to leave early.
When I began teaching at PoleFIT I saw the opportunity to teach movement and teach pole DANCE and I requested that classes be shorter 60 minutes and only open to 1 student per pole. I make less miney this way but I am able to provide a product I am really proud of. I am really proud that my students learn tranistions and floor work.
I make everyone do a warm up dance and we take time to learn how to get into the music…we do also work on tricks…I find having this type of class allows me to work with multiple levels of ability and give one to one attention.
If I had more than 5 students I would certainly get an assitant/intern.
I think there are many ways to structure a class that works, I am just wondering WHY the 1/pole is unsafe.
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Well, two people on a pole is the kind of evil that hasn’t been seen since the Holocaust, you know. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif I’m tired of this. I know there will always be lots of people that don’t understand, but until I’m NAKED on my pole and posting pictures of it on a site that doesn’t allow nudity, then I fail to see how I am violating their terms.
EXACTLY! If girls can upload hot sexy images in bikini’s on the beach and such then clothed pole dancers should be allowed too.
Me and Qulia violeated the terms by being too hot for photobucket!
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Photobucket is another good photo uploading site… so is flickr.com. Both of these sites can be set to private, but I don’t know if they can be made so that select people can view it.
Be sure you have your photobucket set to private I had several pictures removed from pb because apparantly two people on a pole is against their terms.
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:cheers: Maybe you’ll perform in the showcase?
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lol she is going to keep twisting until I submit totally isn’t she?? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_scratch.gif
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https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif Maybe you’ll perform in the showcase?
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The response to the showcase has been amazing!
We are still looking for perfomers/polers and they don’t have to be detroiters. This is an event to appreciate ALL SKILL LEVELS – one of my newer students is doing it and she’s been dancing just 10 times! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
I do hope anyone nearby can come make it out! I am so stoked.
Empy is performing! Bertysbooboo, Serzi, Kristen, a set of twins of who do a doubles act, I have a hooper, a burlesque dancer and a belly dancer lined up as well. In total we have 10 confirmed pole acts and 2 non pole acts and I just announced this on Tuesday!
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Problem is they do not actually look at the images they just remove them. Theoretically you could flag a pic of a cute kitten and they would remove it.
I had a ton of my pics removed from photobucket because someone didn’t like me and Bertysbooboo doing doubles tricks. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif
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https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_twisted.gif I said I wold twist until you relent and stay an extra day!
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Hi all! We have a venue now!
The response was so good that we have moved this even to Augies Bar and Grill.
Please join us in celebrating our pole dance community!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/poleFITrevolution#!/event.php?eid=134768306539847&ref=mf
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I don’t have your vids YET!!!! But I would like to see
Pheonix
YOUR JB drop – the one where you sm at the end
shouldermount flip
true grip handspring
chinese flag spin**** and a whole section on increasing flexibility.
****a whole section on complimentary pole work
****hoop stuff
And UM, your body rolls!!!!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_compress.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_colors.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/alien.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_king.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_queen.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_joker.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_jokercolor.gif
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Mary Ellen (Empy) has a realyl good program that covers teaching and business. I would so do her program in a minute.
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My one encounter with the first belly dancer we interviewed left such a sour taste on my mouth that I am not even sure I want to include it on our schedule. No dance form should be able to tell people when, where and how they can perform.
I really wanted to learn belly dance too. I took a quick little kids class and thought it was extrememly challenging. I love the way it could compliment my pole dancing…I’m just not ready for the drama.
I was really surprised to hear a belly dancer tell me that she didn’t want to be thought of as a stripper…none of my clients would want to be thought of as a stripper either. And ultimately as WOMEN we need embrace each other, stripper, belly dancer or pole dancer and stop drawing lines about who is and who is not too sexy.
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We interviewed a belly dancer who refused to be filmed in our studio because of the poles. I basically told her to hit the road. She said if she danced on video – mind you she would be belly dancing NOT pole dancing – but having the poles in the room would be disrespectful to her and all bellydancers.
I basically said if ou feel you would be dishonored by being filmed with a pole on the background or a pole related logo then you obviously do not share our mission and goals. You are being disrespectful to us and our clients.
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There is an aerial place here in Detroit too, maybe we can all do a dop in Saturday night when you come https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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I agree with most everyone else, get a pole that has the option to spin; and you can just set it to not spin. I have a spinny/static pole and I rarely use the spinny option.
I have the Platinum Stages removable pole in brass, and I LOVE it. I have had it up for years and it hasn’t come undone. (I just make sure to tighten it every month or so, just in case!)
The only downside to my pole is that the finish is weird.. I don’t know if it’s just brass poles in general, but it has finger prints and hand-swipe marks that never go away. So it’s not perfectly shiny anymore, like it was when I first bought it. But I can deal with that!
You have to treat brass or it will tarnish…have you tried Brasso? Give the pole a good clean and polish – I bet it looks as good as new. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
*If you can afford a spinny option – go for it, it will improve the resale value of your pole and you may just like it. We have 1 spinner in the studio right now and some students find it helpful to be able to use it figure out their body position.
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Whatever you do not get a stainless steel LM pole, especially if you live someplace that gets a winter. LM’s are the slippiest stainless steel out there and they are tough to work on when it’s dry or cool.
If you want stainless steel get a platinum stages super pole – it will be much grippier and friendly.
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I am a fan of 1 student per pole. We have 6 poles so class maxes out at 6 – our space is a bit tight – so more than that could get crowded. We get students from other schools often too and they complain about pole sharing.
Most of the time new students don’t stay on their pole for the whole class but I do try to lots of movement exercises and give them a lot of time on each move to ask questions and try it on both sides.
I have done 2 and 3 to a pole before and found that worked well too, the only problem was over time many students started spending more time tricking than dancing and in a large class it can be difficult to fully impart the importance of moving and using all your spaces not just your pole.
Aside from that a good studio should be able to cater to EVERYONE and a good instructor should be encouraging EVERYONE and spending extra time with those who are having a harder time.
The class should be fun and light but also safe and a good work out.
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I teach mixed level classes for this reason.
I get a number of different people with various backgrounds that I end up with people who can do different things.
I have two classes I teach Pole tricks – I work individually with students and we set goals together and I teah Sexy 101 – this is a choreographed class workin with what you already know and putting things together and dancing.
I have people coming all the time that say they are advanced then I notice they can’t do many more basic/intermediate moves. So, for us teaching mixed level allows people to stay in classes together and it allows people like yourself to join in with us.
