FreeTheSun
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My Dad got the Dynaflex Powerball (probably the 80,000 rpms because he is a huge grizzly bear of a guy) for Christmas a few years ago. It takes a bit of practice to find the proper rhythm but once you get it going you better hold on tight lest if fly out of your hand. At the end you forearm and finger muscles feel so tired. It’s great.
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If they say something like, "OMG, you have a stripper pole!" You could just respond intergecting "dance pole" with slight emphasis, "Yeah, I got my dance pole a while ago. It’s great exercise and quite addicting." That of course requires them to pick up on the emphasis.
Or you just go more blatent with something like "It would be a stripper pole if I was stripping on it but since I’m dancing on it, it’s a dance pole." -
Welcome back! School and life does have a way of getting in the way of pole but glad to hear you’re getting back on it.
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so I don’t lean so close to the ground and I push my butt a little further through (spelled that one wrong in my other post) but this is what I described so you can see if it is what you are talking about too.
http://www.youtube.com/user/boomloulou#p/u/2/lv1a4-YHvyc -
Welcome! And please get a vid of you dancing the macarena inverted cause that sounds hilarious.
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I don’t remember the name but Jenyne taught us what I think you are talking about in a workshop over the summer.
Basically if my right hand was on the pole I would take my left leg straight around the pole as if to do a spinning straddle (or v or whatever you want to call it) but instead of keeping it away from the pole I would let the upper back of my thigh come into contact with the pole and grab the pole under it with my left hand. At this point I lean out (to the left) and thread my right leg between my arms so I end up with my body parallel with my legs in a straddle and my butt to the pole and sort of "sitting" on my left hand with my left hip (for a visual sit on the ground in a straddle and place your hands on either side of your body/hips, now pretend the floor is the pole and that is the body position).
If this is what you’re talking about (and it sound like it but I could be way off base) what helped me was getting my top arm further down the pole so their is more space to thread my leg through (kinda like in the Reverse grab holding lower in the pole to get a bigger spin). I also immedietly lean out to the side as my left leg swings so I am already in a horizontal body position to get the right leg threw. If you are trying it just standing it is way way harder than when you are spinning so you can practice just standing and if you can do it standing still it should be way easier moving. I’d post a vid but I just injured myself (not sure if it is muscle or if I just twisted a rib slightly..which wouldn’t suprise me cause I’ve done it before) so if you still need help by the time I’m back at it (I figure give it a few days of no pain before I get back on it) I’ll make a vid for you.
Good Luck
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it can be but normally on powder-coated lil mynx pole but it might scratch the other. Although I doubt it would be bad or anymore than a buckle of a shoe would do
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I went to flag it for a second time and it is down due to "terms of use violation" https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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Different Breed by Carter’s Chord is a random but good one I got off itunes for free about a year ago.
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So this is from another topics but
just watched disk two. Basically she does climbs, wrist sit, plank, a bunch of cross knee variations, craddle variations with different legs and grips, various handstands with the pole, basic invert and tips on focus and metal state getting into it, inverted crusifix, chopper or straddle (and what I think the "monkey hangs" from the "are you ready to invert" discussion), various fan legs, scorpio with about 3 or 4 ways to get out of it, and then what she calls Starfish which is essentially the "side v" (according to wikipole). She also has a ton of great info for spotting and other safety things. And then of course her warm up, cool down, and conditioning sections too.
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Welcome!
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For the joists I think in the UK you should have them between because then you get the support of 2 joists vs one, however in the states they are too far apart so you have to center it on one.
Size difference is purely preference. If you are going to be at a studio some people find the like their poles to be the same size as their studio’s pole’s (often 50) but others find they have better grip with 45. It is a personal preference. Same with the coating, although if you have real grip issues you may want the grippier one. I have chrome and on some days I wish I had more grip because the environmental factors are screwing up mine but othertimes it is just fine with me.
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Welcome!
I only had one class per week for the first six months of learning (took that long to save up the money and decide it was really something I wanted to stick with) and now I have one at home. I might have improved faster had I had one at home but then again I might not cause I might not have practiced as much as I should. Either way works really. But I agree with Audball, check your ceilings first.
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Welcome! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_sunny.gif The Czech Republic is such a pretty country. My visit there was much too short.
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country’s great to dance to! Of course I’m a little biased since I spent my early formative years in TX, but it is great. Blues-y country is really good too. And most of the new country stuff is esentially a very slightly twanged version of pop so it’s not very different.
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Congrats! That’s awesome. I’ve got no tips for not slipping since I can’t do it (yet) but there is the standard "squeeze your grip harder" one that might apply.
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Welcome!
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In regards to the history of pole dance. Although in most common form that we practice it prob immediately dates back to when they had the whole traveling shows and the pole in the middle of the tent got incorperated, but that view doesn’t take into account chinese pole (which although different is a form of pole dance, though some argue it is more acrobatic than dance there still are dance elements, like with Remi Martin or that pole tango video that was posted a while back)
Some people think that going way way back centuries that pole might have come from Mallakhamb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7MUjFliBNk which requires men to preform a series of yoga positions in a set amount of time on a slightly conical pole that has been coated in oil (I assume to reduce the chance of splinters etc). They also do it on rope. http://mallkhamb-ape.tripod.com/mallakhamb.htm
I’m not a historian, I don’t know if it is related to the pole we practice or if it is like convergent evolution (sorry I’m a Bio major, I’m not try to push any theroies of life etc) and looks very similar because, duh, its movement on a pole and no other similarities.
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OMG, that is hilarious
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I assume we are talking like whipping it in a circle and not back. I couldn’t do it for the longest time and I found that by doing a fast head roll starting slightly behind my shoulder and and ending just behind the other shoulder (with a slight chin lift to get it out of my face) helped. For me it, also, helped thinking more about the head and just generating momentum than moving the hair (kinda like booty shakes, if I think about the butt it ain’t gonna happen but if I focus more on the legs or the overall picture it works).
