MilienElayne
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If you have strong enough leg grip and good enough abs you can just pull up without the foot hook. I take it around to Lunchbox sometimes (but then getting out of that is a similar issue https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
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I have social anxiety disorder and comorbid depression. Life was a constant buzzing in my head, crying at least once a day, imagining everyone hated me and was judging me, emotional over eating, heart palpitations, hyperventilation, hot flushes…When I became suicidal I started therapy, had drugs etc etc. and it staved off the worst… but then I found pole dancing. It gave me my life back. I’m now drug free, 15kg lighter, no longer need my therapist, have healthy relationships and live comparitively anxiety and depression free.
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WOW! Alethea is so super AMAZING! That’s crazy! And totally jealous you got to have that lesson https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Ok, so I’ve got Tic Toc, Jade and Allegra now and I actually enter them all the same way – Gemini, Scorpio, Half Jade… then from there, hand placement dictates what move I’m going into. (Yep, I know it’s weird to do Half Jade from Scorpio, but otherwise my hip does not contact the pole at all in any hip hold move and I just end up holding between my thighs – personal quirk)
If my full Jade was strong enough to hold with both hands holding the front ankle, I think it would actually be possible to grab the pole and Tic Toc it down. It’d have to try it (when I get there), but it works in my head.
Video soon https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
In the meantime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRFVFOA-VRQ at 6.53 a mash of a Jade and an Allegra lowered to the ground like it’s a Tic Toc to confuse you further. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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Wait, is it Jenyne? How can anyone watch that and disapprove at all?
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Yep, my kids can so pole if they want to!
I just really am dying to know WHO is the chick in the footage doing the AMAZING beautiful slow climbs and strength moves as easy as breathing? Whoever she is (and I should probably know?), she’s my new idol.
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Do you prefer a certain type of pole to work with as well? Each different school and each studio within the school (some have 4 or more studios and are franchises) may have different finishes and widths, and some have either static or spinning, or both.
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vickiezoo, is it possible to have a link for that? I want to see a pic with what’s going on with the top foot. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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It looks like her shoulder is on the pole too. Isn’t an aysha normally with the head behind the pole with the body? Maybe she lowers her shoulder into the pole from elbow grip aysha? Now I want to do it too https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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Ah, so this one takes lots of time and dedication to train slowly… I’m too used to trying for a session and either nailing (then needing to smooth it out later) or not nailing a trick (not ready or not the right technique) by the end of it… This gradual progress thing for one single trick is weird to me. Healthy, good, and probably normal, but weird https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_scratch.gif. It’s like splits stretching (takes time, can’t push it hard)!
Tips here are awesome! I’m going to sit and think about this and make a plan to get it in a safe and healthy way. Thankyou Steph, Veena, and midkid81 https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Looks like a copy paste typo error? Send them an email and find out? X Poles are only plated in whatever material they’re finished in. ‘True’ brass poles (like at Bobbi’s Pole Studio aka where Felix Cane trained) have the pole section made entirely of brass and are crazy heavy and expensive. At least, that’s what I’ve been told?
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Here’s a Brass X Pole! Available online in Australia https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
http://xpole.cart.net.au/details/2883313.htmlFor the XPERT:
Chrome: $450AUD
Titanium: $550AUD
Brass: $650AUDOn the US site, there’s only a $30USD difference between Chrome and Titanium, so about the same extra for Brass? No real idea, though.
Just chiming in with the brass excitement! Wish I could afford a second x-pole right now!!!
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I’m the same. I can kick into it (but not do anything with it from there) and I can lower into it from TG extended butterfly (to straight edge to aysha or I practice Iron X from there) and from CAR… but I can’t get the lift technique… yet.
Blondebird (https://www.studioveena.com/blondebird) does the most slow amazing TG lifts (from floor and aerial)!
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At about 3.17 I do a chinese forward grip shouldermount to tammy, to figurehead to aerial chinese forward grip shouldermount for ya: http://ver3.studioveena.com/lessons/view/4934 . Hope that’s helpful? It may be possible for superman, but I couldn’t do it.
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Nice link! Thanks https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif Alethea… AMAZING!
I was using Jade to describe that it incorporates an upward facing split.It looks like the initial set up is the same – gemini, leg around to hold at the hip, hand(s) grab front ankle… then it changes when you grab the pole with your inside hand and lower. Body seems more downward to start than horizontal too. I need to stretch more because, like Jade, it’s going to be on my crap side split. Boo! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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There’s probably an explanation for the lack of response, like technical difficulties with email/website, very busy time at the moment…or maybe slightly incompetent reception staff? Call them during business hours to catch someone live. Or go in during business hours and speak to someone in person.
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I have a vid of me learning aerial SM climbs (figurehead and superman): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DidKsNdVUI . I do use cupped grip though… but it should be possible from both these, I think. Must try…
Been meaning to take a vid of me doing them on a taller pole. Much smoother now… heh heh.
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At my studio they call the first a kneehold, same with the no hands version and same with the knee on the pole version… It’s also very similar to Shooting Star on Wikipole.
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Pain has subsided a lot, ladies!!! I’ve done it in 4 or 5 sessions now (on spin mode, at home and in class freestyle time) and I can go straight into it and worked out a better exit… and it no longer burns sooooooo bad I feel like I have sunburn for 12 hours. I think it’s more positioning and doing it properly than getting over the burn. Might get a vid of the improvement this weekend and might try it static … eek https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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I live in Melbourne and go to Pole Divas in Prahran and LURVE it. Visit! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Sensuality is very individual and I still find it hard to connect sometimes. To freestyle and to choregraph routines I have taught myself to move to music and to do what my body seems to want to do for transitions and dance steps (this has taken me 2 years and I’m still not there yet)… but when learning I need a strict breakdown of simple sensual moves every one else can seem to do without thought. It annoys me when for the sake of individuality and dance freedom no-one has mentioned that I’ve been doing something ‘wrong’ for weeks when I could have been doing it a lot better for me. For example, booty popping… I never knew physically how to until I watched Veena’s lessons. I’m by no means good at it and my booty doesn’t pop much… but before I was air humping! That needs to be mentioned!!!
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I like it. If I weren’t forced, I wouldn’t progress… at all. I need it. Nothing came natural to me except pointing my toes when I started. I still have so far to go in the dance area though. Practice makes perfect https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Thankyou for the replies.
I suppose my instructor can only speak from the experience she’s had and that of the polers she knows. Not everyone has the time or ‘dedication’ *cough* to sit online all day doing pole ‘research’ and ‘networking’ like me to find out this stuff https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif . Good to know the pain can fade in kneehold! I’ll just scrunch up my face and take it like a big bad poler til it does… Heh heh.
I couldn’t imagine doing no hands craddle static, it looks like it’s designed for spin mode https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif For me, some stuff just doesn’t translate smoothly from static to spin and vice versa (even with practice).
I found No Hands Craddle hurt like hell pinching my ‘fat rolls’ (aka. those skin and belly bits you get when you hunch over) and I couldn’t release the hands… It just felt sooo bad. I kept trying with one hand on and trying to find a good position… Eventually, I scooched the flub over to the side of the pole rather than on it (I tucked it towards my head rather than letting it push into the pole) so that there was a flat bit of tummy/hip on the pole and then I could squeeze my abs and squeeze my legs into the pole with my arms and it worked. I could release the bottom arm! Then I went for the top arm. Still burnt like I’d fallen asleep in the sun (it still hurts 12 hours later), but it was bearable and not tearable. What are your techniques?
Is that vid of Stellar teaching Stephanie no hands craddle still around? I think there’s something about the bottom arm, that it should be held a certain way?
I haven’t tried Yogini. I am chicken. Teddy is another one that burns… and Allegra. All on the list to eventually nail pain-free https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Thankyou.
My dietician future sister-in-law (when discussing my pole diet fads and grip vs. beauty product phases) was a little concerned I carried thermoplastics (mighty grip powder) in my purse to use on my skin and spent a lot of time in a studio rolling around in pine tar (girls are messy… all over the floor, the poles, me)… Also, my employers (parents of the kids I nanny for) are obsessed with BPA free and other related baby stuff. Gets me thinking.
