Corrie
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All of this is so great! I can’t wait to see the next serieseses. 😉
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I love mine! I have a powder coat one and plan on maybe also getting a regular (powder is great but I find it hard to do some things on). I especially like it because it is easy to take up/down, as my pole room is my dining room too.
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YAY! Super excited! 🙂
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Can’t wait to see! 🙂
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YAY! My only superman has been from the floor but I really want to start working on it again!
(Also, that graphic is adorable)
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Dulce, I do almost the same thing! I plan my weeks in advance on Sunday or Monday, and AGREED on the invert program.
I actually do almost the same thing with moves – even *if* I’m doing a 30 day program, I throw in a few other moves (particularly if the lessons are a review).
Usually my pole days are Monday/Thursday/Friday (Thursday’s are for play & freestyle). Tuesdays & Saturdays are usually strength training & cardio, and then the other two days are flexibility and rest (sometimes, if its yoga, I’ll combine it. The point of a rest day for me is just not to strain my body, not do nothing).
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YAY! Can’t wait to see what you do! 🙂 Pole is great for *so many things* 🙂
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I totally get this. I don’t (technically) have body dysmorphia, in the sense that I’ve never been officially diagnosed but I’m in recovery for ED – which I was active in for almost 25 years (I’m in my mid-40s). I discovered aerial almost 3 years ago, pole a year and a half ago. (I was a dancer for a long time, then got older and became a “runner” instead, for the calories, naturally).
Aerial, and pole, helped me flip a switch from “what does my body look like” to “what can my body do” and I’ve talked a lot on my Instagram at how they’ve given me a gift of not worrying about what I weighed. It truly is a gift.
BUT, it still comes up, and its coming up right now! 🙂 I had surgery in July, which means that I can’t do any of the tricks in my bag of tricks – and have to instead concentrate on movement and dance and flow, and I am feeling the same feels you are. My body has changed because of the time off from the surgery, and I wasn’t moving as much. I dislike nearly everything I do and have resorted to posting funny posts on my aerial instagram making fun of myself/various animals who walk in front of my camera vs. just sharing things outright because I’m afraid everyone will see what I see (and old, slightly dumpy lady who should *not* be prancing in front of her camera, even though that’s BS and I think every person should prance in front of their camera if they want to, just…you know, not me).
However, I’ve been down this road before – not just with pole, but with aerial (hammock) and with other things. I have a few things that I like to do when I get this way, so I’ll share them for you – maybe they’ll help? (also, these are great reminders for me ;).
1. Just keep going – I know it sounds terrible because right now everything is, but sometimes, just going through the motions can take you through to the other side of the crummy feelings. One day, you’ll get up to keep going and realize that you no longer feel incredibly self critical or hate everything you’re doing. This is one of the reasons I’m still posting on Insta, and still planning on joining in challenges, etc, because even though I hate it right NOW, at some point soon, I won’t. And it will be the going through it that will have gotten me there.
2. Talk about it! Stuff like this helps, and if you feel up to it, talk about it with your teachers and/or the studio owner. While her comments sounds like things I’ve heard said to me in the past…it was when I was prepping for a performance and/or dancing full time in a company, not in a regular class. If your teacher/studio/etc. is good, they will listen to feedback on THEIR feedback. Just saying “I appreciate your feedback, but right now I’m having a hard time, so if we could keep things technical – like my hand needs to be rotated more, or I should work on shoulder rotation – vs. emotional, I would appreciate it. I’ll let you know when I’m able to take in feedback on how I look/feel.” You have the right, as a student, to ask that. I had a teacher who used to comment on the size of people’s butts and boobs all the time, and I had to take her aside once after class and say “I do not appreciate being told I have a big butt. I know my butt’s size, and the last thing I need is for this class, which I love very much, to trigger my ED again. If you could refrain from talking about the size of my butt, I’d appreciate it.” Turns out, she didn’t even realize she was doing it – and thought since she talked about her OWN butt size, it was ok. (It wasn’t).
3. Take a break to try new movement. I know I just said “Just keep going” but sometimes, trying some new things that can jolt you out of the mindset of “Everything I do is terrible.” Right now, I’m learning hula hoop. Being new (and maybe terrible!) at something helps me keep things in perspective. Experiment with movement in a way where it feels really low stakes because you’re new. That could mean try a YouTube dance class (not pole), play around with a hula hoop, score some roller skates, or try a chair class. Find something that is new enough, from a movement standpoint, that you have to think about it, and yet also know that you probably won’t be amazing at it. Hula hoop is great for this for me, because if I’m constantly worried it’ll fly off and break the cat, I don’t worry about what I look like.
Anyway, that’s my thoughts! So glad you have good therapists & friends too – because that’s half the battle. 🙂
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Oh, I always modify too! I feel like I’m always working around something. However, I think looking at the Broken Doll video, its far beyond what my body can do right now (I had surgery in July), so I’m gonna opt for option one – my own choreography w/a costume. 😉
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Yaaay! Just watched the routine – would love to learn this at some point but may do my own because I need to limit what I do tricks wise. I may even have a song already!
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I’m working up to *something* but I don’t know what it is yet. 🙂
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The way I understand it is that each platform (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc) have different relationships with recording companies and so each of them have different copyright agreements. I used to work in the music industry and its not the same across platforms, for a variety of reasons. Each platform though has code to identify certain songs – and in some cases, those songs are banned outright (like I tried to post a Guns and Roses song and my whole video got taken down) OR in some cases, songs are only banned in certain countries (like I have one song by an Icelandic band I love, but it is ONLY banned in Iceland, Russia and a few other places). It’s always case by case.
Writing “I do not own this song” doesn’t do much – the codes that search for the songs don’t read the captions. I find its kind of a “try it and see” sort of thing. You never know until you try! 🙂
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Ha! I totally forgot the cold pole thing. Yes, that is one of my not-fun parts. My hammock never asked me to warm it up. 🙂 The pole is always cold (especially with the weather we’re having now in my area!)
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Yay! That sounds like you are off to a great start! And glad we can connect on Insta too! Veena also has a FB group and a few of us there are using to do some daily check-ins with one of the 30 day programs.
One of my favorite aerialist-who-is-also-a-poler friends, who does Cord Lisse, once said “I feel like with rope, I can bully the apparatus if I need to, but pole will not be bullied.” I think its a great description.
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Me! Me! for the last year I’ve trained both pole & aerial sling! I started on sling a few years ago, then started taking pole last April. I basically used the pole as a way to train grip strength & inverts on days I couldn’t train hammock, and to supplement my off-hammock ground training.
Just like you though, with coronavirus, my studio closed, and I don’t have a rig (and am wary of getting one after spending too much time in the Safety & the Aerial Arts FB Group. :P), so I am now all pole, almost every day. Few things I’ve noticed, and the some rec’s for Studio Veena programs.
– I find that my friends who do trapeze & lyra (vs. sling or silks) have less trouble bruising. Me? I bruised like crazy at first because pole is such a different pressure/feeling than sling (particularly on the inside of the legs/thighs)
– Veena is right – everything is very interchangeable! The biggest difference is I can’t manipulate the pole like I can fabric. So there’s less…cheating on certain types of moves. For example, I discovered when I started trying to do knee hooks/grips on the pole that I wasn’t working at my max knee hook on a sling.
– Most off-pole & off-sling conditioning looks similar. Currently going through Shannon Mackenna’s Aerial Inversions for All book and its got the same skill sets in Veena’s pole inversions course – so they compliment each other really well!
– Pole turns/pirouettes/spins were my nemesis for a long time because there is not a comparable skillset up in the hammock.For Studio Veena, I totally recommend the 30 day Take Off – she gives a great grounding in basic terms, body placement, throughout that course – some things I didn’t get in the mixed levels pole class I took. You could pair it with another series too – for example, right now I’m re-doing the 30 day invert course and also doing the 30 day caterpillar course – or go right through each of the Beginner moves and on to the Intermediate. You may find that pairing the 30 day take off with the 30 day invert or 30 day flow will help you understand the pole basics!
I hope this helps! If you’re on Instagram I’m @aerialcorrie so would be happy to share more! I will also say that with all the poling I’m doing, I’ve seen crazy strength/hold/body mechanic gains that I haven’t seen on sling so it’s a GREAT apparatus!