Madfelice
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Still 24 hours to get 90 votes, but even if I dint win I am donating for the likes so it still counts at this point! Thank you!
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That is awesome! Flash can be such an unstable thing anyway so removing it has to help! No upgrades necessary for the other browsers though, right? Just IE9
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Reenie, the magnet falls to the floor on the pole itself, it is only the dome and the cover over the adjustment piece that are TG.
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Ok, rudimentary advice on spinning is that if you want to slow down, extend part of your body away from the pole, an arm, a leg, lean your upper body away etc. This is sort of like aerodynamics where you want to create wind resistance. In order to spin faster you bring yourself in towards the pole, make yourself smaller almost which creates less wind resistance(lol @ wind resistance, but I can't think of another term for it!), provided you have not stopped spinning completely by the time you manage to do this it works a treat. I often use it when trying to land a spin in a particular spot by putting my body that little bit closer or further away so that I will arrive at just the right time in the routine. Some moves it will naturally slow(I don't find it with a CAR/CKR, but i do find it with planks or superman or the like but everyone is different)and I was told by a teacher once when I asked that this is normal, and the trick is to make sure you have enough momentum at the beginning of the move that will slow down to cover it if that makes sense? Then you put a move after it where you are closer to the pole to bring the momentum back up if needed. I don't know if I put that right, but that is the way I do it even if I have not explained it well.
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If it spins well enough at other times maybe it is the fact that the closer you are to the pole the faster you spin and maybe you are moving arms and legs too far away from the pole getting into your inverted moves which makes the spin slow down? I have that problem sometimes, and holding myself a little closer to the pole makes it spin faster.
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Hi. When I first put up my brass x-pole it was indeed a little slippery, but I wiped it down with acetone and now it is super grippy. It also works for when the kids get greasy fingerprints on it as kids will do.
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Yeah, I find wikipole helpful and I look that the other sites too. I suppose that having it in printed form would be nice, and depending on the binding on it it could make a nice coffee table type book…
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I bought that one from amazon and the shipping to Australia was $16 for 3 day shipping. I advise buying that one from amazon, lol!
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I am sorely tempted, and at $40 plus $9 in international shipping it's not that steep a cost either really. I just wonder how much use it would be. If I read correctly it is not an instruction book, but more a picture book telling you the names of the move. Maybe I am wrong there though…
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Brass is amazing, but my xjoint was faulty on it. still waiting on replacement part 🙁
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Homemade, or Mika Yoga Wear Michaela or Lucia style.
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My partner has been on this diet for about 6 weeks now and has lost a whole lot of weight. He is getting close to his target weight already!
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I wanna 'shop' too, lol!
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I voted using facebook. Hopefully a whole lot more people will too!
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The best thing I find to clean my pole down with every so often is Acetone. I rub it down with it every month or so or when I feel it is a little slippy(kids like to play on it so it actually does get a bit greasy if they have something on their hands, lol!). I swear the first week after I use the acetone I don't have to even use grip. I also love the fact that it leaves no residue and is dry pretty much instantly.
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Wow, I had a moment there when I was seriously wondering whether he actually had any bones in his legs!! He is crazy flexible!
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Hi, I can totally relate to what you are saying, I was feeling the same way about a month ago when I was entered into my first ever pole comp. I was ready to pull out as close to the day of the competition even! The night before I was feeling so insecure I was almost in tears and until I went to the rehearsal and saw the other girls dance I was ready to pull out. Guess what happened? I actually won!! I say do it even if it is just for you. Make yourself have a try just for yourself, so you can have the experience if nothing else. Modify your routine if you need to so that you can make it through it if that really is a problem, but you should at least do yourself the favour of trying. Don't think about how others will see you in the respect of not being pretty enough or thin enough because usually others see us in a much more favourable light than we see ourselves. Unless you are really totally unable to do your routine then I say give it a whirl. Nobody other than you ever expects you to be perfect really.
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The studio I go to had chrome X-Poles and once the chrome coating is damaged they do in fact peel. The damage can be done by jewellery or whatever. Sounds like when you took it down you maybe loosened some of the plating around the joints or maybe it was loose to start with and you exposed the problem. I vote for giving X-Pole a call since it was at the joint area and it could have been a problem that was already there.
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I would drown! Swimming is one thing I really don't do well!!
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Feel free to add me on Facebook. My profile doesn't have a picture as yet because I have a pole shoot that I won happening next week so I am holding out for those pictures, lol!
madfelice3@gmail.com should find me. The name is Barbara Henderson.
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I must have a feather skirt…
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It got better after I loosened it, but never completely. After the drama of getting it up I didn’t want to take it down until after the competition I was entered in was over, but now that it is we are taking it down and taking it apart to see if that helps. The top joint where the extension goes on doesn’t feel right when I tighten or loosen it so I think there is something wrong there.
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Wow, this just makes me gladder still that I usually pole with my hair up!! I have really long hair too and I find it difficult coming out of inverted moves on spin just to see the floor and figure out where to stop so I usually just tie it back!! I never even thought about my hair getting tangled on the pole!! Yikes!!
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I have tried titanium, titanium gold, chrome and brass and I prefer my brass by far.
I use practically no grip ever on brass and have had no problem with keeping it clean or anything. Titanium gold would be the next choice though, if I couldn’t have brass -
I love that someone asks for the uncensored version in the comments!!
