Kira
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it's this sunday ladies! all are welcome 🙂 1-3pm DFA studios in Great Harwood, at the moment there are 13 of us going so it's going to be a good one!!
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I often wear wrist wraps, I found them through aerial amy's blog too 🙂 my physio had recommended me to wrap my wrists while I train to ensure I had proper support while I pole and to compliment the wrist strengthening exercises I do. I find they help me a lot!
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Chem: really? I thought US polers were embracing the sexy more and more!
From the few polers I've spoken to most times they dismiss the sexy style because in their mind they can never be as sexy as the Alethea's or Eva Bembo's of the pole world and aren't willing to try and experiment. They think you either have it or not… When I started I was totally oblivious there were different styles of pole. Then I trained at a different studio where it was all heels and performance over the tricks and I was so behind… I decided to practice on my flow, trying to be as sexy as the other polers there. There were times I looked back on practice videos where I cringed and thought what am I doing, I'm not meant to be sexy I just look really stupid. It was the most difficult part of pole for me to be honest because I had to look at myself during every floor movement and body roll and embrace the fact I have a womans body, I have curves and I CAN be sexy. To some it is much easier to just learn tricks and not 'embarass' themselves looking in a mirror while they are trying to body roll against the floor and to an extent I can understand!
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To be honest I see more pro-sexy posts more than pro-sports. The thing is that (over here anyway) most the competitions do not allow heels in their competitions due to health & safety or insurance purposes, and speaking from experience – even though I flipping love to wear heels when performing – X-stages are the WORST to dance on in heels so I'd rather go bare foot.
I agree that the push on tricks over sexy is quite vigourous and a lot of the ladies that compete want to display to an audience a feeling of 'hey look at me, I have 3 kids and I can iron X and then rainbow marchenko' rather than 'I have 3 kids and I can still twerk like there's no tomorrow. Be jealous ladies!'. I can only guess that they either like the fitness side because they get a bigger buzz out of teaching their bodies to contort in ways they never thought possible and perceive bodyrolls to be 'too easy' or that they are embarassed with embracing their femininity.
But that's what competitions are – a display of athletic strength and flexibility. Yeah there's comps that push the sexy and heels but polers that love the sexy style aren't as competitive, they just want to dance in their front room, in private. That's why it seems that the style isn't as prominent but it is! I wouldn't stress – just keep dancing the way you want to 🙂
P.s The whole 'renaming' of the moves to SM and FM etc. would purely be for ease of judging I imagine, I really don't imagine they would want to force people to rename moves like spatchcock to FM10?! The one thing that made me chuckle in the article was that 1 contestant lost points because a feather fell off her headress (how's that her fault? not using enough glue?) and that they were selling 'Strong is Sexy' t-shirts at the event when sexy is what they totally do not want pole to be at that particular competition 😛
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I have hangups about my stomach and hyper extended elbows. I have to reach down in moves rather than up/out to keep the lines in my arms looking nice but I often forget… with my stomach if I am performing I pick moves that don’t scrunch my stomach up lol when im practicing though I let it all hang out as I’d rather get a move than worry about what my stomach is doing haha. I’ve worked harder on my stomach recently and have toned up a bit but think my natural shape forbids me a decent flat tummy without living my life just eating lettuce….
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I think Justine is planning to do a video of how she does it as obviously a lot of people have been asking and she mentioned that she will share after she teaches it at the barcelona pole retreat. That's at the beginning of sept so fingers crossed she will release a video soon after that 🙂
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Ok, it's a go go!
DFA studios in Great Harwood have kindly offered their studios for us to use from 1pm-3pm, 8th Sept £20p/hr but the more the cheaper so cost will be finalised closer to the date 🙂 RSVP here just so we have an idea of numbers 🙂 x -
sorry to hear 🙁 I remember you posting about Toby in the previous thread. Sounds like he was very much loved and cared for as much as humanly possible! Big hugs and hope you feel better soon xox
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I know it as toothbrush – normally we go into it from a hello boys then thread the leg through to one side and lean / hold. To take her bottom arm off like that i reckon she's got some good grip on her bum! she's a super hardcore poler I've seen her stuff, shame she is so intent on pushing it as a sports only cos I would love to see how she would 'pole dance'!
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September works for me too 🙂 when are you back shona? x
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It was clear from the get go that the focus of the International Pole Sports Federation worlds competition was purely pole sports/fitness rather than on the more showy side. I think the fact that there was a children's category would mean that it would be gymnastics only as they wouldn't want any more controversy. If you consider the rules for the adult competitors included things like costumes had to cover the gluteal crease and there are 10 compulsory moves etc. I can imagine the rules for childrens would be even more strict.
Under these restrictions and rules I think Olga was the outright winner of her category – she did the moves, she hit every move on cue and was flawless on technique. Sure, it is not the style of pole that I find moving but she met every criteria of that particular competition. Whilst Aimee's routine is just as spectacular, I didn't find it any more or less emotional than Olga's – to me it's just children doing different combos in vertical gymnastics much like 'normal' gymnastics you see on tv. Both would have had a teacher advising and coaching them, I don't think that any of their training would've been too different.
'There is more to pole than this' is true – depending on your views of pole. To some, this competition is the be all or end all – they see pole as pure gymnastics and technique, that emotion would develop from doing the tricks. My personal opinion is the same as yours – that emotion comes first, the tricks and technique develop from the emotion. I also find emotion and expression comes with age & experience and haven't seen any children's routine as yet that have made me tear up and think more than 'wow, she's really flexible/strong'.
These style competitions are here and we as a community should acknowledge that not everyone sees it as a dance movement but more of a sport movement. There are plenty of other competitions such as Pole Art, Miss Pole Dance etc. that celebrate showmanship, props/lights etc. as well as the tricks.
And after that heavy reply I just want to say f&*k me, I wish I had the stamina of those kids – I get tired after a climb and invert!
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hazel are you just doing pdc gradings or is your studio help training you up too? so cool you are teaching now 🙂 x
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Would you say it’s similar to doing resistance stretching with therabands? Or is a partner essential? Â
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First of all awww that's so cute your bf wants to do doubles with you! I can't even get mine to touch it nevermind doing doubles with me -_- From the male polers I've met I've noticed that they pick up the strength moves right off the bat, I've known some that just do an iron x in their first lesson. Flexibility is often an issue with guys unless they have a gymnastic/dance background but if you guys do a strength/flex double act (where 1 is the 'anchor' that holds the other who does all the flex moves) it should work out great 🙂 But maybe he could be a unique poler in which he has great flexibility AND strength 😀