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The money in Australia at the moment has gone rapidly downhill, although Melbourne can be good. Kittens is a waist up touching club and there is supposed to be good money there, but they have over 100 girls. All the others are non touching, so keep that in mind when choosing a club. You will probably make more than you do waitressing, but the lockout in Sydney caused mass amounts of girls to head elsewhere, so Melbourne currently has a lot of beautiful women and a lot of competition. There is still money to be made but remember there is the possibility of leaving with less than you came with in some clubs, and unlike waitressing you can work all night and make nothing. There are some beautiful clubs there though, and most have amazing poles. If you’re asking whether or not you should dance, you’ve probably already already decided you’re okay with it. Just don’t do it because you desperately need money, do it because you’re going to enjoy dancing as well.
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Yay, congrats! I’m waiting on pics! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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If you like the group lessons so much, are there any other studios you could go to who would be willing to at least evaluate you to see what level you should be at? I would definitely be ditching the one you’re at if they won’t even listen to you… could you save up for just one private lesson so they could teach you what you need to learn in order to catch up with the higher levels? Surely if they were the ones teaching you one on one they couldn’t complain that you weren’t doing it right? I’m sorry you’ve ended up in such a sucky situation https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif
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Damnit Veena, you ruined my make up!Do you have any idea how long it takes me to fix it? I don’t like waterproof mascara, because it takes too long to remove… so i guess it serves me right.
I’m glad we’ve all taken some time out to appreciate this site and how much work goes into it – It runs so well, I have a tendency to forget how hard you guys work on it. If it were broken all the time I guess I would think about it more often https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_tongue.gif This is an amazing community and I honestly had no idea how young it was – when I joined I just assumed it had been around for a while, because it doesn’t seem like it’s a work in progress… you guys must work hard to keep it that way! I log on every day and kind of take it for granted now I guess – I’m used to all the awesomeness. But all this birthday talk has made me remember how delighted I was with everything and everybody when I first joined up… When I saw the video chat I thought it was the coolest thing in the world, everybody chatting and poling and helping each other out. You really have created something amazing. I love you guys!
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Oh how on earth did I miss this! I’m always amazed by your insane intellect glitter, this is a brilliant idea!
name: Monique
age: 23
location: Brisbane, Australia
stage name: Nadia
lessons or self taught: Self taught
spin or static: Spin!
shoes or barefoot: Shoes
favorite pole move: This one’s tricky… Superman maybe, or the knee hold. Or the brass monkey. I love moves that make the audience go WOAH!
day job: Exotic Dancer, soon to be a journalist
your best/sexiest feature: My eyes or my smile. I’ve figured out how to control the male species with them.
how you got into pole dancing: An old friend from school was working in a club and when I broke up with my boyfriend of 5 years and moved to the city she insisted I come and play with her. I thought I’d give it a go if only to see the look on my ex’s face. I’ve always loved learning new moves, and I was always alone at the end of night trying to practice. Now I think it’s fair to say that I’m addicted
how you found out about studioveena.com: I never really used to be interested in pole dancing outside of work, but one day I stumbled onto tarakarinas youtube and was in awe. She has Veena’s shoulder mount tutorial as one of her videos and it was really great, so I thought I’d check out this Veena chick https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
if you were a pair of underwear would you be a thong, boy shorts, bikini cut or granny panties: I think boy shorts, though I am a fan of granny panties! -
Lol Meleania, he doesn’t want to ‘pole’. He’s just a giant kid and he thinks its a giant toy. He jumps on, spins around, spreads his legs, goes ‘oh yeeaahhh baby’ falls off and giggles. He was watching youtube videos with me one night and he went ‘omg that looks so easy, anybody could do that.’ Obviously I got really mad at him, and as soon as the pole arrived I was like ‘off you go then’ and he was forced to get on it to prove his point. He managed to spin, but then he jumped off and went OOOWWWWW and now he won’t do anything that hurts… so at least he knows that even the basic stuff take a bit of skill and conditioning! But I have it on spinny mode and I think it gives him butterflies in his stomach, which always makes him giggle so he can’t help jumping on it.
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OMG ITS SO AWESOME YAY!
Congrats on getting this all put together on time, you guys did a phenomenal job! Happy Birthday and hugs and kisses and stuff, I’m so impressed by all the awesomeness. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Lol you guys are lucky that your men are disinterested in the pole! I’ve only had my pole up for a few weeks and i’ve only used it a few times. Every time my boy ends up coming down to check it out I use up all my energy trying to get him off the damn thing. He thinks its hilarious. The other day I had the music ready to play, the pole warmed up (its freezing here) and a cute little outfit on… He was like a little kid, jumping and spinning and refusing to get off. He was determined to figure out how to climb up the wall while holding onto the pole, kind of like a flag. He wouldn’t let go and I eventually gave up and went to bed.
Every time I actually get on it and try to show him something he’s like ‘Cool! Now can I have a go?’ Boys are ridiculous.
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Woah, be careful litlbit, you may give Azriel a heart attack – that was an insane story, thank you for sharing it with us. So many people wouldn’t have survived such a horrific ordeal, and I’m so inspired by the strength you must have in you to be able to come out of that and lead a normal life. Working in a club I see so many girls become consumed by alcohol and drugs, most of the time not even for good reasons. But I’ve never seen anybody come out of it… I see them hit rock bottom, and then they disappear off the face of the earth.
I was going to reply to Azriel saying that not only was I looking for sympathy, but I really don’t think I deserve it – everybody faces challenges in their lives and I think I got off pretty lightly – I got a good education and my parents weren’t abusive. I was only trying to give an understanding on why my sister got so much attention, but in the end she ended up much worse than me. So I definitely think it’s better to be independent without needing to rely on your parents for everything. The only reason you don’t hear many stories of people really badly off is because they don’t survive to tell them – I’m so glad you ended up being such a beautiful person, Litlbit.
Glitter, it seems to me that so many people have very dysfunctional relationships with their parents, so I really hope you and your mother manage to sort things out and become closer.
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Hey Glitter,
I’ll try not to ramble, but I’m oh so good at it.I’ve got a baby sister 4 years younger than me, and when we lived together my mum gave us absolutely everything totally equally. She was a health food nut, so when she bought a packet of chips or a chocolate or any kind of treat, she would pull the scales out and split the bag exactly in half so we couldn’t fight over who got more. We never had much money when we were kids, and a lot of our clothes were second hand and we never got nice things, although my mum tried her best to give us what we wanted.
However, I was kicked out of home at 15 because my parents didn’t like my boyfriend. I spent my whole life studying and playing on my computer, I never went to a party and I got top marks at school – I was even in the scouts, which is where I went friday nights when my friends were out drinking and lying to their parents about drinking. Then I met this boy and I started spending a lot of time with him – he was a 19 year old computer tech who hated drinking and smoking to the point where he refused to be around anybody doing those things. He was a pretty model citizen and my parents loved him until one day they must have just thought ‘omg it’s a boy, they must be sleeping together.’ Which we weren’t. So they banned me from seeing him. I didn’t listen, so they packed my bags and dumped me off in town and i’ve been on my own ever since. I finished school, got great marks, got a part time job, went to uni, finished uni. I’m pretty awesome.
After I moved out my mum started spoiling my sister so hard, it’s not even funny. She bought her brand name clothes, which we were never allowed to have because they were too expensive, and whenever she wanted something mum managed to scrounge some money up to get it for her. Meanwhile, I could barely afford food – It was ridiculous. I think mum was just trying to hold onto my sister, trying to make sure she didn’t end up hating mum and moving out as well. She ended up getting in trouble for drinking all the time, they even got a few calls from the hospital when she had to get her stomach pumped. She is so unbelievably smart that they skipped her past year 9 and 10, and even 2 years ahead she never had to try at school at all – which left her free to muck up. She was always getting into trouble, first drinking then stealing, then trying to get into clubs with a fake id. Mum just stopped caring after a while – I actually thought it was hilarious how much she used to yell at me when I really never did anything wrong, and then she got to see what dealing with a trouble maker was really like. In turn, I think they ended up realising how awesome I was.
Either way, my sister ended up moving out at 14 after refusing to live with my mother, and I heard last week she was dealing drugs at 19. I’m actually really glad I had to put up with my mum’s terrible strictness – I never got into trouble. A few years after I moved out of home, I developed this great relationship with my mum – I started realising that all the stupid things she used to make me do or nag me about actually made a lot of sense. I call her every week or so, and I organise to meet her for lunch when I can.
I think if i were in your situation, I would be pretty furious at having to work so hard when your sis is getting everything for free. But like everybody else has said, your mum probably just doesn’t realise that it’s upsetting you – you’re all grown up, what do you care? Instead of getting pissed that she’s not including you, why don’t you invite her somewhere? Ask her out to lunch, or ask if she wants to come shopping or something. Don’t include your sister and don’t expect or ask her to buy you anything… she probably will anyway, but tell her you just miss hanging out with her and you want to catch up. Your sister is still a baby and she still has that mother-daughter relationship with your mum. I would try and form an adult relationship with her instead of trying to get back into being dependent on her like your sister is. You won’t get as much free stuff, but it’s much more functional https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
And just for the record, my sister is now very frivolous with money and she wastes it so much that she’s constantly calling me and asking for cash, which I rarely give her. I think if mum hadn’t given her the world when she was younger, she would be much more responsible now. So you’ll probably come out on top in the end.
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Oh god, she can’t even spell. And she made the same mistake multiple times. And then she started swapping back and forth between spellings.
That really irks me. As a journalist, I want to kick her.
Most ceilings seem to be about 8′ tall ….This pole will work with a cieling anywhere from
Urban Dictionary: cieling
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Happy Birthday little miss!
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I don’t get scared of any particular moves per se – the fear I can’t get over is trying to invert in heels! No matter how low they are, even just trying a basic invert I just can’t bring myself to throw those sharp things around https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif I start and then halfway up just get hit with a mental wall. I always feel like a high heel could take out my eye or something if I fling it around too much. I can spin in them just fine though, and climb, and sit. Just no heels above the waist I guess https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
It’s really easy for heels to go flying, and you’re right – it can actually be quite dangerous. Plus if the heels are sharp they can scratch you up and it gets messy. I would recommend 2 things to make you feel safer – make sure you have rubber soles on the bottom of your heels. If the heel bit has sharp edges, see if you can file them back or something to make them smoother – I’ve done some damage with them before and they can easily draw blood as adamseve said.
Secondly, If you’re afraid of your shoes flying off, tie them on. Get some pretty ribbon or something and make an ankle strap that goes around the heel and around your ankle. I can’t dance in shoes that aren’t stuck on securely with ankle straps, because they really do go flying off – I would definitely feel too unstable to go upside down. You should be free to concentrate on what you’re doing, not whether or not your shoes are going to fall in your eye!
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Yay! I knew the crazy massage doctor would make it better https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif I’m so glad you found out what’s wrong Veena – now get it all rested and healed so you can dance again!
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Roxy, I was just reading this going ‘what the hell…’ as well. I’ve had pleasers, highest heel, ellie and random no-name brands of stilettos and they have all had to be a size smaller than my normal shoe size. I’m a 10, and I take a 9 stiletto. I have wide feet as well, they’re by no means small and dainty. If you get shoes that fit, or shoes that are comfortable, they will stretch quickly and become too big. If you try them on with a sheer stocking and you still have to squeeze your foot into them, they’re the right size! And they take a few days of bandaids and pain before they fit properly, but then you’re set.
When I bought my first pair some body told me to go up a size, so I unknowingly got a size 11 and they lasted 1 week before they were too big. Maybe it’s just because I get a lot of use out of them, I don’t know.
And a big Happy Birthday for Friday, Foxy!
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I’d like to second that – you guys are all awesome!
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This is a great idea! Without a pole in my hands, I’m the clumsiest thing you’ll ever meet, and even with a pole any gracefulness is very fake and very practiced. I haven’t been to any kind of dance classes since I was about 5… and my ballet classes consisted of ‘good toes, bad toes!’ (At least I know how to point my toes). So I’d love to soak up as much information as you’re willing to share.
I’ve recently decided that gymnastics are really cool after all the talk on aerial cartwheels a while ago… If anybody else wants to jump in with basic gymnastic tutorials that you could incorporate into pole dance, that would be awesome as well! (I really really love how Suzie Q walks on her hands to swap from one pole to another – she does it here at 5:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoEVI4K1774" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) Actually, it would be fun to incorporate any kind of dance into pole work – I’d love to see if anybody else could contribute as well!
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Hey Jungle,
I just made it through about half of the over 200 comments people have left, and I can see how easy it would be to get really upset by people’s reactions. But in all honesty, I’m pretty surprised with how open minded a lot of people are – out of the 100 responses I’ve read, there have been the same few people saying the same bad things and a countless number of random strangers supporting you, saying that there’s nothing wrong with you or your dancing. It would be so easy to get all wrapped up in the negativity, but think how many people have taken time out of their lives to say ‘so what’ in response to this guys outrage at you pole dancing to praise music. Out of all the responses, the majority of people by far have acknowledged your skill and agreed that pole dancing can be an outlet for praise dancing if done in the right context. I’m glad the numbers have swayed that way… a few years ago EVERYBODY in the general public would hear ‘pole’ and think ‘dirty stripper’ instead of being so open to the idea of it being a means of fitness and artistic dance. -
Yay Trena! I’m so glad you had a wonderful time, I hope it was a night you’ll remember forever! Best wishes for the wedding, I’m crossing my fingers that everything goes perfectly. I also hope you keep working the pole on your honeymoon! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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I have yet to figure that out… I started off by just jumping off, which isn’t sexy. You can try getting the hang of the dove/figurehead, but I find it hard to reach back and get into that without wriggling my legs around as I’m trying to grab the pole – that also looks ridiculous. You just drop your legs down a bit and grab behind you… My pole is also short, so if i get into a figurehead my feet are pretty much touching the ground – I’m not sure if you’d have the same problem. If you’re high enough on the pole you can try the superman fall which I’m sure is easier than it looks – I’m always too low for that too. If you do it slowly you’ll see it’s not scary. Or you could reach down and try getting into a side v – that’s all I’ve been able to come up with so far!
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Would it be possible to just add another (optional) section in your location details for the state that you live in, as well as the country?
You can already search for members by country and there is already a section to list your town, you just can’t search for it. I’ve tried entering city names in the keyword search that I know people have listed as their city, but it doesn’t return any results.
I assume it’s a lot easier to set up a search function if it’s searching within a certain section… so if you had a state category in everybody’s profile you could set up a search function to search within that category without too much trouble (I think) because the code is already all there to search through countries – you could just replicate it and change it slightly. It would be really cool if you could search through cities too, although I appreciate what a massive entity this site is and what a headache it would be trying to dig through all that coding in order to do anything at all.
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Haha!I don’t like windows movie maker either – I tried using it on my desktop pc instead and it just annoyed me. I like the way video edit magic works better, its really easy to work out.
I’ve got 2 weeks left of uni… I’m trying not to think about it! And no way on earth would I do an undercover story on showgirls, lol. I’ve been there 4 years – they’re really wonderful to me, it’s a great club. The manager is the sweetest girl and she works so hard to keep everything running smoothly – I’ve worked in other clubs and the owners and managers just treat their girls like shit, but the general staff at showies are the sweetest people you’ll ever meet https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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I’m not one of those people who learns things super fast, but sometimes I do go to try a new move and I get it right away, and I’m like wtf? However, other moves take me forever. It took me a few weeks of doing the superman from the ground once a day and then another week of doing it in the air once a day before I could hold it without it hurting. So over a month for just one silly move, practicing it every day. The same went for other moves that hurt my skin like hell, like the teddy – I had to do it a lot before it stopped hurting. I don’t go nuts on one move … when there’s something I’ve almost got, I just do it once or twice a day after work and it slowly gets better and better – when I can do it confidently but not neatly, I’ll incorporate it into my stage show on a quiet night. Slowly it gets better…
With the shoulder mount, I tried it twice months ago, got nowhere near it, and just forgot about it for a few months – I put it in my list of moves that are impossible. Then when i tried it again ages later, I got it almost on the first go. Sometimes it really helps to not only shelve something, but to totally forget about it – don’t even stress yourself by thinking about it.
After saying all that, I still can’t do the stupid butterfly. I want to kill the butterfly. I haven’t tried it again for a while and I’m not going to for a while yet, because I know I can’t do it and it’s just going to piss me off. One day I’ll be able to do it though… and I’m not worrying about it until then https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif Just remember, different things are harder or easier for different people – You can do a lot of stuff that other people can’t, just don’t stress about it. Pole dancing is supposed to be fun https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif Just do what you can do and occasionally try learning something else – you put yourself under too much pressure. I swear I’ll come over there and kick you, we’ve been over this https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_tongue.gif
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I use video edit magic 4.4, which works quite well – I downloaded a cracked version from a torrent site. The windows movie maker won’t work on my laptop for some reason, it just crashes – I’m guessing that’s what most people use seeing as it comes with windows.
Good luck https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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