Dwiizie
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I’m down. Goals: Get rid of 10 lbs (12 would be nice) with a focus on building muscle and getting rid of fat.
Pole at least twice a week
Attend 6 pole classes in the studio
Strength and flexibility training, 3 days a week each.
Eat fresh and natural as much as humanly possible (there will be days, given my schedule, I know this.)
Good luck everybody! Its a flexibility day today!
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How bout those pads they use for rolly chairs in the office? or a scrap piece of vinyl/laminate flooring from a local business?
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I just turned 26. I have stretch marks on my legs, thighs, hips, stomach, upper arms, and even on my boobs. No kids. Lots of weight ups and downs. Hormonal problems, both with thyroid and PCOS issues. They are what they are. Luckily, most of mine are at least just lighter than my skin, no dark purpley ones. I do have spider veins all over my ankles though and I don't know why. I didn't notice it until very recently. I do think hooping has helped my stretch marks. No creams have though. I've been trying dry brushing for cellulite. Me thinks I should try the treadmill instead LOL!
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Drapey silky curtains in whatever color theme you go with. I like the purple thing, but I think I'd take it a bit more burgundy and mix with apricots and golds. I'm just not much of a bubblegummy type. Black lights are always cool. Can we put mirrors in the floor with string lights running out like a spider web from the base of your pole? You could get an LED color pattern, or stick with a solid, or do blinking, racing, then steady pattern of a solid color. If you plan to be showing off for SO/Guests/Visitors, make sure they have somewhere comfy and cool to sit. Expensive, I know, but those high heel lounges are awesome. And you need a place to stash your wipe/alcohol/pole whatevers/other exercise equipment you keep in pole room like yoga mat etc. And maybe a coat rack or swivel for shoes and clothes. http://www.lovesac.com/sacs/pillowsac.html Yes, definitely hardwood or vinyl/laminate floors. You can get nice hardwood looking laminates that are replaceable when your heels scratch them up. Uh… Disco ball? Lava lamp? What kinduh budget do we have here cuz I could go super pimp with this lol.
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Uh oh! Well, if you used a permenant dye, it stripped your hair of color and deposited new color in its place. To go lighter, you have to remove those color pigments, which will leave your hair in a pretty much non-pigment state AKA orangey red hair. This requires a color remover, not just bleaching or a new box of whatever blonde you want. After taking the color out, then, you can bleach the crap out of it, risking damage and linen texture hair, but it will do the job. Protein fillers and deep conditioners will help along your journey.
I know you don't want to go to a salon, but they'd really be better on your hair and more able to assist. If you do your color lift wrong, and leave your hair very pourous, and use a box dye of say "Medium Ashe Blonde" your hair will go right back to a grey brown.
Just go to a salon if at all possible. You REALLY don't wanna do this at home. I did this a few times actually, going up and down the color scale. I'm pretty good at coloring, but it got to a point, it was unmanageable, and wouldn't hold any color, just a washed out strawberry blonde. I cut it Jamie Lee Curtis short and started over. My hair is a dark brown now, and I'm examining my options. I want to go back to my bright orange, but I know what it would take for my hair to do that. I'm tempted to go reeeeeally short again and let my natural hair out for the first time since I was 12. I'm also tempted to just keep letting it grow, roots and all, and see if the sun will eventually even out and blend the line for me, enough so I don't have to get rid of the length. I might WANT to get rid of the length. I just don't know what to do with mine LOL!
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I sent you a message sarichmond. And @Sinnamon my doc is now certified to do some form of acupuncture. I've forgotten what they call it. Getting some money to do that soon lol, its on my list. The tailbone and back pain is gone, I actually sit up straight now, I'm getting core strength like apples from doing backbends on the balance ball, tagging the ground, and doing a full sit up. Gets those lower abs that can be hard to target off-pole. My headaches are a thing of the past, I haven't needed excedrine since the first month of me visiting. Its awesome. I can't wait for October to come around so I can put enough in my flex spending to get a visit plan for my husband too. Life is goood 🙂
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I have a pole up in my apartment. There is a little smushing of the drywall in a circle, but oh well, they probably won't notice there are so many sags in the ceiling. You can tell where the beams and nails are lol. I plan to put a fresh coat of paint to cover my hoop scuffs and if I leave any dents, I'll caulk them over. Cheap, easy, and the place I'm renting from is so cheap and stingey, they probably won't notice in the least. I HAVE heard of people putting wood up to keep from making marks on the ceiling, but I'd imagine you'd have to secure the wood to the ceiling or else the wood/fabric could slide. Good luck!
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Recently I showed my little brother my recreation room for the first time. "Sweet! Bus seats, accordions…got your record player, and… uh… a stripper pole….riiiight" One of his friends when he was much younger was there. It was SO ackward. Remembering them playing around when they were like 7 years old, and having the friend tell me now 22 yrs old "You're looking goood as a mo'fo by the way" Thanks honorary little brother lol.
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Why not put the baby stuff in the guest room? Do you have guests planned or just decorating? Is it the baby's future room anyway? Even if you do have guests come, couldn't you stash the baby stuff in your own bedroom when you have visitors? Hope you find a good solution. The front door could be interesting. I agree with the garage. Spiders and temperature changes alone would make me steer clear of a garage.
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I remember my mom had some tweezers that were supposed to shock and kill follicles when you plucked a hair. It didn't work very well if at all. And legs would take forever, a pluck at a time. I don't know these brands or how they work, but if its similar, I'd say pass.
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Not what you're looking for, but this is pretty cool: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4321014304_7360211b69.jpg
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I've hunted for anything matching this description. A few of us hoopers were talking about going in on a Cyr wheel together, so I've REALLY been researching these and similar circus things. I can't find a thing! I can only imagine it's something the person custome made for themselves or had manufactured for them specifically if its not something that you come across when looking all over. I sure would like to know, it sounds awesome. Maybe you can start designing one yourself?
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@ DedeJoy I just turned 26. I've been stretching regularly since december of 2009, and actual flexibility training (both splits, back, side, arms, all of it, but first focused on splits) for 1 year and 5 months. I actually looked back on a forum post I made on another site when I started the flexibility journey. I'm still about 8 inches off my center splits. I'm about an inch off on squared front splits, easier right leg forward, and if really warm and really stretched I can get the full split on both sides, but its like one day out of a month. I'm pretty sure hip flexors are the issue with front splits, so I've been paying extra attention to stretching those. For the center split, I'm not sure. Before I went to a chiro, I used to have horrible pain in my right hip when stretching. Now I don't. I've been mainly working on sitting on the ground and straight backedly leaning forward, while trying to creep my heels just a little further back each day.
Before I started stretching, I could barely touch my toes, and my center split was the top of a plie lol. I was never a flexible or athletic child, was never interested in it. I remember trying to do center splits in 2nd grade and a cheerleader friend of mind jumped on my back to try and make it happen. I was about a foot off the ground at that point lol. I started out, when trying to touch my toes to the back of my head, about 2 feet off the mark. Back flexibility is my biggest problem. As of last night, I'm about a foot off. So I KNOW I'm improving and getting better. I thought I could NEVER EVER do a split, and I have. Its taking for freakin' ever, but I'm getting there. I, personally, don't stretch into pain. I do allow discomfort, as is natural, but pain for stretching? Nooooo, not for me. So thats the story of a mid 20's learning flexibility who was not at all bendy/athletic/whatever as a child or teen 🙂
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Thats weird….. Maybe try hoopdance or Safire or love or something? I can't remember what I did when I signed up (it was a loong time ago). Yeah, I don't even know if my myspace still exists, I just throw it out there anyway. I heard they deleted everyone who isn't a musician page, but I never looked to see. I have a musician page anyway though (I sing too hehe)
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I should really read before I hit reply lol. I meant, seems there is more drama on hoopcity (IMO), and less repetitive questions on hooping.org. hooping.org also does a lot of articles on hooping, where people are making news, updates on native american hoop dance, articles on hooping in relation to learning, weight loss, brain function, healing, meditation, etc. I dig that its an info hub.
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Yeah, its .ca. I like both sites. hoop city is kind of like Veena, Saffire offers lessons, theres chat, music, forums. Hooping.org is more like a hooping newspaper, photos and videos of the day, forums to specific topics, but not the standard format chat thread. If I ever need to reach a bunch of people or ask a big topic, I usually go to hoopcity, but for daily life, I'm on hooping.org (seems there is less drama there, and more questions asked over and over again. For example, there is a great thread in Beginner Central forum for shoulder hooping, and the mods put the threads mostly together so you don't have to look for 20 different threads.) My screen name Dwiizie everywhere lol, you can find me and friend me, I'm on youtube, Facebook, Myspace, they're all me 🙂
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Does anyone ever use/spray grip aides on clothes? I don’t own any aides, just curious about the whole thing. LOL@ magic jeans 🙂
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And yeah, Caroleeena is definitely awesome. I've not gotten a chance to meet her, but we've spoken online enough times. I recently did a workshop with Brecken. THAT was a fun weekend! I love that Caroleena loves the dance, its not always all about the tricks (though she can throw you some good ones!)
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It made sense to me too, then I was hooping on my lunch break and realized I had said it opposite. It sounds very weird when typed because you're going backwards when it feels like you should be going forwards. I actually played a lot with it today because of this thread. I've found, I can actually make my upper torso stiff as a pencil, and bounce back and forth from leg to leg, creating enough side to side to get that "BEAT" from side to side. No shrugging, no "cat cow-like" movement. Its literally using legs to power the hoop, and the power is so strong, that even the boxiness of the shoulders can't fight it.
I also found that if I hunch up a little, I can use my "shrug" method to hoop anywhere on my arms from shoulder to forearm.
I also discovered that the BACK push on the shoulder shrug carries more power. I naturally hoop to the left. I swirl the hoop around and actually move my RIGHT shoulder back as the hoop comes around, and the left shoulder front (which, again, seems to be AGAINST the rotation of the hoop, but its where the magic is)
I even played around and found that I can shoulder hoop (to the left) focusing almost exclusively on throwing my right shoulder back and letting the left arm/rest of torso go slack. It doesn't have the same effect trying to throw my left shoulder forward.
In second current (to the right, the other way, whatever lol) its all about throwing my left shoulder back, but the mobility on my left is very muted compared to the right (as I am right handed) Its such an interesting move. I remember one of my first ever hooping videos with me trying soooo hard to get the hoop to chest level. I actually yelled at the hoop "Come oooonnnn!!!" lol.
I do moderate the daily practice forum on hooping.org and I've seen waves of beginners, and they all eventually get it, so I truly have faith that anyone determined to do it can.
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I just realized, the bit of info I gave about the shoulder shrug, thats if you hoop to the RIGHT lol. Reverse that if you're a left hooper.
I also didn't answer about Hoopnotica. I love hooping because of the freedom of expression. Nothing is "the wrong way" or "the right way" its however you want, it suits you. Hoopnotica is very much "This is how you do this, and that is how you do that" and that just doesn't suit my learning style (though some LOVE it)
Its very much a "find what you like" sort of thing 🙂
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I got them straight from Synergy/Hoop Drum. I do spin poi, haven't gotten into fire with that yet, just sock poi and led sock poi right now. I juggle, do flow wand, dance with the toroflux, etc, etc. I'm allll about the flow arts. Actually, I found poling because I wanted to get into aerial silks and lyra after doing one climb on the silks after trying for about 4 hours at a "flow jam" we had here. They said the nearest aerial classes were in DC or NC, so I was like… how bout a pole? The girl with the silks said that pole moves translated well to silks and lyra, and I could actually have a pole in my house (no room or height for an aerial rig at the moment lol). So thats how I came to poling. I think first I was a dancer, ballet, tap, jazz, etc. Then I was into acting and singing (and naturally dance continued). I kind of fell out of it, didn't feel feminine, so I started calling myself a juggler, I was in the juggling club in highschool, thats where the stilts, diablo and things come in (though, I'm still not very good at it lol). Then, after a few years of focusing solely on music, I found hooping at a music festival. The hoop led to all my recent "flow arts" though. I NEVER would've thought I'd be hooping, poling, doing poi…. My life is permenantly changed for the better. I could rant and rave about the empowerment and just EVERYTHING these movement and dance arts have brought to my life.
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You sound like me Sparrow! I have sooooo many hoops, one is 54 inches in diameter hehe, I LOVE that big groover hoop. Eventually, I want to successfully attempt tandem hooping with my hubby (he hoops too. Pole at least I have alllll to myself muwahahaha!) I have LEDs, Quick Wicks, tubing of all sorts, poly pros. I loooove hooping so much! I think the advice here has been great, so I don't feel the need to elaborate. I know that the weaving one arm thing works for a lot of people. When I started I really BEAT side to side to get the hoop going good. Now that I'm a little more fluent, theres a little shoulder shrug to it. If you hoop to the left, push right shoulder first to swing it around, then intercept it with a kind of hunch forward left shoulder and fling the left shoulder back. It ends up being like a horizontal figure 8 harlem shimmy thing lol. Find as many different tutorials as you can, everyone explains the move a little differently, and there are probably thousands on youtube for shoulder hooping. I don't really dig the Hoopnotica method, but many find success with their DVDs. Good luck!
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What if you stretch out well before going anywhere that you'd wanna pop this out at? I know that if I stretched earlier, I can usually drop into a good one (or at least a slightly bent back leg jazz split if its not a flexy day). Or maybe take a bathroom break and stretch? I think I understand that you want to just do an impromptu drop whenever you feel like it, but maybe you can feign the appearance of such by stretching out of sight or before you go somewhere… Good luck!
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When I posed that idea, I was thinking for natural. I never wear fake nails and am in the same boat as “solids or French Manicure. The end.” Or if you’re really daring you can do reverse french tips lol or different solids in french tip. Gah. I have friends that do a new polish a week, holiday nails, etc. I think I need tutorials AND talent lol.
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To add: if you leave the tape solid over the joints, it won’t twist down right or at all (or itl rip the tape as you’re coiling)
