Dwiizie
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Lol there are a lot of stylists on here. I am not one of them. I am a home colorer through and through. One thing that helped me even out the color when I did this was to use a protein filler on the hair, both a treatment after lightening/before coloring as well as an additive to the hair color mix (you can find it at a beauty supply store.) You should probably chill a minute before putting your hair through anything else, use some restructurizing conditioners and whathaveyou. What shade of red are you going for? Now that you've used brown, you can't go any lighter than that brown without lifting again, and I fear that would turn your hair to linen cloth. If you are using semi-perm color, the red will kind of be a wash over the brown. Theres a good chance your roots will be lighter, unless you color match with a brown and just do your roots as though the lighter color were your natural shade and you wanted to do your roots to match the brown you've put in your hair. As your hair grows, the change from the processed hair to the more "virgin hair" will be less noticeable. If you have a short do, it can be really punky to have, say, bright orange roots, and red tips >:-) At any rate, good luck!
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One thing that helped, was to make sure that you're breathing as deeply as you can without excruciating pain, and about 4 weeks out, just make sure you're stretching MILDLY so that your rib cage doesn't heal very tightly. Mine was starting to heal tight and I had to really expand my rib cage when breathing to maintain full mobility. Thats what my doc advised, as always, listen to a doctor 🙂
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When I broke a rib, it took 6 weeks for the pain to really subside, 8 before I was poling again, and still felt pain now and then for another month. All better now though, would never know it was ever broken. I didn't break it poling either, I fell down the stairs.
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Yay!!!!!!!!! Congratulations 🙂
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I have Grave's disease. The side effects of the thyroid supressing drugs they would need to use outweighed the benefits of them. My options became: Remove a portion of my thyroid through surgery, the risks being damage to vocal chords. I'm a singer so I passed on that. The other option was to take radioactive iodine, absorbed by the thyroid, that kills a portion of the thyroid. They overshot a little with the dosage, so now I'm actually hypothyroid which has its own challenges, and one of the most common symptoms is weight gain and inability to lose weight (fun fun right?). Grave's, being an autoimmune disorder, is still present to the effect where my body still wants to kill my thyroid, stunting the pituitary gland, so there is always heightened antibodies in my blood, but with Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid replacement hormone, my levels are fairly normal. I also suffer from PCOS which can sometimes get funky with both of them always at the same time. It is definitely manageable though, even on the long term. Its hard when my levels change and I start feeling and acting crazy but I don't know the chemical reason behind it. I'm starting to better recognize when its time to get checked, just to see if my crazy is chemical or just my natural charm lol.
I'm sorry to hear that you have to deal with this, but it does get better, best of luck <3. Why, though, does your doctor recommend a break from poling? Is it in relation to medication side effects or what about poling impacts or exacerbates your thyroid issue?
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I can't picture this from the description, but it sounds very interesting.
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I am not sure, is hockey tape acceptable? If so, this page is AWESOME for some decorations and colors: http://www.tapebrothers.com/Hockey-Tapes-s/324.htm I buy almost all my tape for my regular hoops from them because they have cool patterns. The question I had: Where did you get that outdoor tripod??? So awesome!
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*theirs SMH lol
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There are professional riggers that specialize in this and can do all of that for you. Check around your state, or ask nearby aerialists who did theres. Good luck!
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Thats exactly how I feel about the bent arms in the elbow/forearm stand. That has also been a bit weird because, using a "walk before you run" mentality, I figure: Elbow stand, progress to handstand. The elbow stand is soooooo hard!
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I just commented on your thread before I saw this… I sold my 50 because I wanted a 45 and don't have room for more than one pole in my house. Theres some info about that on your thread. I miss my baby though, had I had room and $$ to keep it AND get a new one, I would have.
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Well, as you've probably seen from some other threads, so much of this is on personal preference. I recently sold my 50 and moved to a 45 chrome xpert. I had tried the 40mm brass poles at the studio, and they were too thin for my taste, I could USE it just fine, climbs, sits, spins, whatever, I just didn't particularly LIKE it. On the 50, I definitely loved it, but where I was missing out was it was hard to grip all the way around, so I couldn't get a LOT of throttle on spins. Even doing a backbend, there have been times I was clinging with my fingertips, praying I didn't lose grip because my fingers weren't wrapping around the pole. I don't see this being a problem on my 45. It also wouldn't be a problem on a 40 had I gone with one. Good luck!
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I'm not scared at all of them. I just can already do a headstand, and I can't do the other two yet. I guess maybe I should ask how much is the risk in doing it this way? Straining your neck muscles, crushing your spine, breaking your neck, worse?
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I understand that, have been practicing with a wall, for both elbow and hand stands. I mean, there must be a way to do it safely like break dancers who are completely on their heads, or like Lyme Lyte's video where she was using the tripod, two hands, and the head, not two elbows and the hands to make a triangular base like Veena teaches. Or is there no way to do that safely and Lyme is just awesome?
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Do you have any pictures or video of where you are now, and perhaps a comparison picture of someone being where you want to be? Have you asked a chiropracter what they think? Mine has been a life saver with both back and leg flexibility 🙂
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Hrm. I can't really get my lower back curved to the front either. If I had to count from my tailbone up, I'd say it starts being able to "hunch" about 7 vertebrae up. I mean, I can tuck my pelvis, but the lower back still just gets flat. Always thought that was normal.
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So what happens when you "touch your toes and rolllllll up" like you do with a lot of warm ups and cool downs in dance/fitness classes? Do you flat back into standing or are you able to hunch a little? What happens when you try to hunch your shoulder blades and let your arms hang down and sway side to side? Maybe its more of a mobility thing than a flexibility thing, especially if you know you have a bit more of a lower back curve than is typical….
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name: Sarah
age: 27
location: Richmond, VA
stage name: Several, depends on the event.
lessons or self taught: Veenas lessons, 6 studio lessons, trying to figure it out!
spin or static: Mostly static, haven't built the strength for a graceful spin routine.
shoes or barefoot: Barefoot, have never poled in shoes, but I wanna try. On the hunt for cheap platforms
favorite pole move: Reverse hook or ankle attitude
day job: Document Scanner
your best/sexiest feature: Eyes and Legs 🙂
how you got into pole dancing: Hooper, obsessed with aerial and flow arts.
how you found out about studioveena.com: Searched for it
if you were a pair of underwear would you be a thong, boy shorts, bikini cut or granny panties: Bikini cut.
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I personally have about medium hands, my thumb will touch my fingers just barely on the 50, on the 45 I feel more secure with hand grips. Overall, I prefer the 45mm to the 50. The thigh hold is easier on the 50, but everything else (spins, lifts, etc) is nice on the 45 and I can still do the thigh holds without much adjustment. The 40 I was still able to work with just fine, but I experienced a little more bruising because of the thin diameter/extra pressure needed.
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Heydi is my girl over there! She has worked diligently when I have had an issue or two, she follows up, and genuinely cares. <3 her!
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Is there a such thing as sexy rain boots? Bet they'd be grippy like crazy and flat footed…. and you can always get them in the coolest patterns lol.
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And if you want some of the shinier ones, like the Lycra ones, then ballet flats are awesome underneath (they always picture them with women wearing heals under them in the listings)
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I LOVE boot covers. I wear them over sneakers, usually just really flat cheap white ones like WalMart Danskins or canvas shoes. Thats what I'm wearing in my Merry Christmas album here on Veena. It lets me hoop in parades and things while still having cute boots, and you can wear them over and over. I've replaced the elastic on mine 3 times. The fuzzy ones are easiest to find because they're so trendy, but often don't cover the toe and would look a little silly on tennis shoes. But here's what they look like on me (Got them as part of this costume, 20 bucks for the whole thing, new, on Ebay):
https://www.studioveena.com/photos/view_album/50d3cb61-26c8-4fc8-8925-21890ac37250
Some I found on Ebay just browsing around:
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That would be nice, or at least, have sample packs at studios or vendor's store fronts or whatever if not available to send to anyone. I measured the different mm's and found things that were similar, like, the top of a soda can feels like a 50 lol. The 40s at the studio WERE nice, but just felt a little too thin when climbing and what not. The grip is different because at home its chrome, at the studio they have brass, so you can't really compare the grip factor solely on mm alone with them being different metals. People always recommend going to a studio to try out different sizes and finishes, but that isn't always available 🙁
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I found that I had the same issue on my 50 when I started out, but, as ninja just mentioned, realizing I was overgripping was a HUGE issue. Also, I started strength training my hands so they'd be stronger as I progressed with pole. Squeezing little stress ball things, and I have this little thing with springs under each finger that you squish to gain hand strength. I used the 50 for my first year and a half of poling. I'm waiting for my new 45 to arrive, anxious to get poling and see and feel all the differences.
