MissJulie
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Things that help me:
I invert on the left side of the pole because I am right handed. I end up with my left leg in front and right leg in back. But when you get into butterfly, your front leg becomes your back. Make sense? So my left leg is back and my left arm is down. I tried originally only with my right down and could NOT do it.
The other thing is push your butt up as far as it will go.. so your legs are about ninety degrees. Otherwise you’ll feel like gravity is pushing you down.
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Please let me know how this is. I was trying to get this woman to fly into Austin and my co-workers are being cheap. I’m so disappointed, I really wanted this cert.
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Yeay, I got it with top hand bent first try. Still had to take top arm off for a second and couldn’t get it on the second or thir.
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Will try with the top hand bent more. Part of it is leaning back to make your "window" as big as possible. However, I only was able to do this move once. Don’t know what the hell I did. I watched one of Michula’s videos and had a big ‘aha’ moment where i thought flipping my top hand into a cup grip would allow my hips to roll over but it didn’t. I have the strength to hang out in apprentice- I just get stuck. Any further advice would be helpful. Transitions into superman have been difficult for me- I can do it from hip lock and starfish/scorpio but neither is a smooth one-move transition, in other words I dont make it look easy and effortless.
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Has anyone got the first grip yet? It seems to require a twisted grip with the dominant arm, which stops my ability to spin cold https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif
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What lovely transitions. This is my new fav.
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Yeay, I learned so much and can’t wait to do it again
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Mine doesn’t care either. He doesn’t understand what I’m trying to do when I actually do it so he’s not impressed because he’s not sure if I meant to do it or not. The whole thing bores him and he makes fun of me grunting when I straddle and the sounds the pole makes. He’s not intimidated by it, he just would rather see what’s on TV. He isn’t impressed when girls do it at clubs either- he just cares about whether he sees tits or not. And he thinks I spend too much money on pole stuff.
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Thanks, Cricket. Come back to Austin anytime https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Hi everyone,
I’m with Brass Ovaries Pole dancing and I’m NASM (National Association of Sports Medicine) certified and getting a Pole Position Fitness certification in February. My NASM cert is about to expire and I’m not sure if I should get ISSA certification as planned (a very well respected personal training exam) or ACE. ACE seems to be preferred by pole instructors, can I ask why? Is it because they have a group exercise focus?
Julie
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Can we create a topic for workshops just so some of us who live in the middle of the country can keep a tab on what’s going on and maybe worth flying out to? I’m probably not going to make this one or the USPDF one, but I’d like to prepare for a field trip this year somewhere https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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I’m bringing one more. Sorry to be last minute.
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Going to try my darndest
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I don’t do hack squats or standing calf raises at the gym because I believe these compress my spine and I already have scoliosis. However, I’ve never felt any pressure or pain doing the shoulder mount. The pole rests pretty comfortably on my trap and I’ve never been bruised from it. There’s occasional soreness, but this is usually in my back, serratus, and obliques which seems like very normal workout related soreness. What i CAN see is the ‘unsafeness’? of the shoulder mount grip which is traditionally a cup grip and doesn’t have the stability of a full grip, however there are alternative grips.
Out of all my students however…. I have yet to have a student who I feel is advanced enough to teach the shoulder mount to, I have to say. Sometimes a girl will come in for a workshop with a more advanced teacher who can SM, but usually these are teachers from other cities who have moved to Austin.
I think people need to be taught how to fall properly too. It’s not enough to know they can do the move. I’m at the point where I’m just used to falling and lately practice falling out of extended butterfly… I land like a cat and somehow flip over to land on my butt every time, I just don’t want to do a move like that on a hardwood floor until I can gracefully cartwheel out of it
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At 9am? I can definitely make it, although I might have to stay in a hotel Friday night??? Not sure how bad the traffic would be if I left South Austin at 5-6am. I’m sure I’d hit rush hour either in Round Rock or South Dallas. Is anyone else interested in splitting a room Friday night?
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Stellarmotion did a great job of displaying how to get into it here, more slowly and closer up than Jenyne’s video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMnb1RDPT4I can see where this looks like twisted ballerina… Jenyne taught us this one but I dont remember it very well… I do remember it was a lot easier to get into than what David is doing to get into it… so it seems like if you try to go into it straight from twisted ballerina as opposed to bending down and twisting your arm up the pole, you’d fall off?
Does anyone have a video of jenyne or anyone doing twisted ballerina for comparison?
I tried this move last night and only got about half way there, I got the pole around my upper arm but not in my armpit, so it didn’t seem stable enough to let go. Going to try again as soon as I get over being sick.
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Absolutely no experience of any kind except for lifting weights for years beforehand and very minimal recreational/informal dancing plus yoga. I always say if I could do one thing over again I would have taken gymnastics, although gymnastics can be more harmful than doing nothing if you have a bad coach. I was the ugly/bullied kid in school from about 3rd grade to the end of highschool, so I wouldn’t have been caught dead near any sort of sports/cheerleading/etc unfortunately.
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Does anyone know about West Coast yet?
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Wish I could say it was when I was 18/19….. I did try to do a cross knee release once as a waitress when I was 23 and I also learned fireman spin and princess spin.. but then I didn’t do anything again until I turned 26, 2 years ago.
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When I refer to dropping into cross ankle from Pike I’m definitely thinking of Felix as she does this as well, but the more dramatic version I saw that made me incorporate it was at 6:40 in Marlo’s Pole Superstar performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RN8QeFPfho
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I drop from a pike into it and just try not to touch the pole on my way down, as that always shocks people a little bit who’ve never seen much pole. I’m also trying cross knee release drops…. Jamilla does one where she runs her top leg real quick over her bottom from plank and falls into cross knee release. I’ve also seen women kind of mount into cross knee release from some tweaked version of straddle, which resembles a drop. I would like more of these too.
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So if twisted grip puts your wrist in a reverse position, what’s a safe way to do this? is there a "normal grip" handspring? Does someone have videos of a variation?
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I have the same issue. Whether it would work or not was so iffy and after researching extensively, my answers were still pretty vague. I gave up and bought a stage pole. I’m now in line for the new platinum stages pole with a very small base as opposed to one you could actually fall off of. It sucks, but it’s the price I pay for a cheap apartment.
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Yeah, this one kills me. I’ve gotten it before, once. It took about five minutes of grunting and I haven’t gotten it since. I tried Sarah Crutel’s way of getting into it from flatline scorpio, and while a reach… it was not nearly as painful as when I tried it from like what I call a Goddess spin…. hooking my inside leg and just trying to pop my outside leg up and then going into it. Flat line scorpio you’re already hooked. The way I was trying, you kinda drop into it. I pulled my calf muscle for two weeks. My back is very bendy, too. Crescent moon is very easy for me. So, I’m surprised at how much trouble this one is giving me. Definitely think the way to do it is from flatline scorpio, but yeah… it’s hard.
As for aerial shoulder mount, I find its easiest from half-mast… you do a side climb, let your body spin backwards a little into something resembling figurehead, so now one leg is kinda tucked, one leg is down with your foot holding on, and shoulder is against the pole… rearrange grip and repeat.
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Btw y’all my friend just got Routines 1.. I watched it and decided it order it myself.. despite being disappointed that she did not come out with another just plain old instructional DVD, she does explain a lot of transitions that I feel really help me tie things together. Definitely worth it.
