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I got a ‘My Sexi Little Pole’ before my boyfriend bought me the X-Pole. It’s not bad to use for very beginners (those who want to see if they’ll do more than a few weeks), good for practicing basic spins and such. I used the bit that screwed into the ceiling, and when I took it down (when I got my x-pole) i found it had unscrewed itself a little. So if you do buy one you’ll need to make sure it’s screwed in properly. You can’t use the full length of the pole because there’s a spring at the top which reduces the grip area bout 7-9" depending on how high your ceiling is. I was also weary of doing anything too close to the bottom because I was sure that little rubber bit would move (It didn’t.)
Nx
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I agree that some pole moves don’t look good without the splits. My pole jumps look STUUUPPPIDD. But, I think good form has alot to do with it, pointing the toes and tensing the legs and such.
Nx
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Me thinks the pole may be an inch or too far up my legs. Me also thinks that you perhaps dont have to lean out as far as I do. Will try that
Cheers,
Nx
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Hi,
Here’s me feeling like I’ve had a rough day myself, and then someone comes along and makes me count my chickens!
Hugs and luv!
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Yey birthday poles! Boooo Waiting. My lovely boyfriend bought mine (6ft 5" dirty blonde guy, read that as you will. hehe). He said he only had to wait 2-3 days, and we live in aberdeen (though it wasn’t from here). He threatened to take it off me after he saw my bruising! All together now ‘Awwwwwww.’ I practiced priouettes and turns on corners before I got my first pole.
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We don’t really have a store like target in ol’ blighty. I think the nearest we have is Asda (same as walmart) or poundstretcher. I’ll have a look though. Been researching it on the web and found some mirror film. Thinking if it’s thick enough I could paste it to some big board (conti or mdf or something) and use that. Anyone else heard of it/used it?
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Cheers, that is an idea.
I’ve been checking on line and the cheapest big mirror (silver backed glass) is about £60 ($80-100) and I really don’t fancy spending that. Asides from video taping myself and playing it back and it doesn’t exactly help form as you can’t see what you’re doing at the time. I also look a bit Eastern Block Gymnast from the 60’s.
Nx
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Hi,
I’m 30, 5ft, and about 130lbs (why are we posting our weight? Seems the thing to do, more a getting to know you than ‘what’s your age’.. Cool). I’ve got no kids but I’ve had two bacon butties and am about to eat my second danish (pecan and toffee). I went to a couple of lessons about a year and a half ago, loved it but wanted my own pole (unless you can afford classses 3 times a week, it’s what you really need if you want to progress). So got my boyfriend to buy me one for my birthday. I’ve tried a mixture of sports, rock climbing, jazzercise (oddest experience of my life!) non combat kick boxing, I mostly do yoga and a few of the moves I learned with kick boxing. Would like to get back to running again, I had a really bad bout of clinical depression last year and haven’t gone back to it. I’m a big advocator of exercise for exercise’s sake. It does wonders for how you feel emotionally and physically generally, even when you don’t do it to get fitter or loose weight and I’m always on the look out for something else to try.
Nx
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Hi,
I too have bent my release rods so they now look exactly like ‘l’s. The first time I put mine up the pole extentions got stuck together. It took brute force to untwist them again, I had to get my boyfriend to do it. he managed it when I unscrewed all the other parts first (or at least everything I could unscrew.) They’res supposed to be a banging thing you can do but that never worked for me, as I didn’t know if I was doing it right.
I spoke to my pole dance teacher and she got the quick release rods, and said they were worth the money.
Nx
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Hi All,
I have to say I’m with the nay’sayers on this one. I’m not too good on the engineering (so my explination may be a wee bit ropey) but the X-Pole works on the basis that the two points (the ceiling and the floor) at which it’s jammed into give the pole the strength to withstand the force that is your weight plus the force at which you throw yourself around at, PLUS the momentum at which your weight and the force you push your self off at carries you round the pole (don’t we all feel huge now). In order for this thing to work proberly, the base must equal this weight plus some to ensure stability. Which means it must be really heavy to move around. Considering that a whole standard x-pole can be lifted (alittle awkwardly because of it’s size) and carried around by me (133lbs give or take 10lbs) the chances of this being as mobile as it says are slim.
Crawling (rather heavily) back under my rock.
Nx
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repeat the mantra ‘Bruises are Sexy, Bruises are Sexy, Bruises are Sexy’
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That’s the title of my profile! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_jokercolor.gif
I knew I didn’t think that up meself!
Jx
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For the bruises buy arnica cream and repeat the mantra ‘Bruises are Sexy, Bruises are Sexy, Bruises are Sexy’
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For the bruises buy arnica cream and repeat the mantra ‘Bruises are Sexy, Bruises are Sexy, Bruises are Sexy’
Nx
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*WARNING, WARNING, RANT AHEAD*
Before anyone does anything further. Can I reccommend ‘A Fat Girls Guide to Life’ by Wendy Shanker. I’d make this book part of the School Curriculum. (Goes into Auntie Nx Mode) I’m not against eating well, but I am against dieting out right (which I know will tick people at the start). There is no such a thing as good foods and Bad foods, or the right way to eat or the wrong way to eat. I’m not recommending a diabetic eat sugar or a nut allergy sufferer eat a snickers. I’m recommending that if we (humans) spent as much time on more important things rather than ‘I wish I was a size eight’ or ‘I wish I hadn’t ate that snickers bar’ we would have cured poverty and ignorance by now.
The books very good. It points out the human trait of conformity in many examples and will go a long way to taking the guilt out of eating what you want. It doesn’t mark or dissuade the health issues of being larger than socially acceptible, but it does go along way to pointing out how it is just a health issue and no-ones business.
If someone wants to eat well, I’d recommend ditching all processed white stuff, eating more veg (it’s 7 a day you’re supposed to get not 5) and learning to cook. And believe me, I’m saying this as someone who’s 5ft 0′ and nine and a half stone. Apparently, I’m overweight. I say, talk to the fat wrist ‘cos the fat hand is pi$$ed as me and my wobbly fat ass walk away.
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LOL! Poor thing. Smaller dogs usually have better recovery rather than the bigger one’s when they’re punted across the room. My dog’s been kicked once or twice and now stands away from the pole. She also licks my pole!?!?! When I catch her she acts like she’s been caught in the depth of a guilty pleasure. I use baby wipes to clean it and she’s not eating them straight from the packet so I don’t know why. I think I just have an odd dog.
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Yeh, I bruise like a prune so it always looks worse than it actually is. Considering the list, it’s kind of surprising I wasn’t diagnosed with dyspraxia untill I was in my 20’s.
Nx
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"I heard of another woman that let her arms drop when inverting and dislocated 5 ribs from her spine."
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I swear when I read that i felt my own ribs pop out in sympathy. I’m dyspraxic so my co-ordinations not brilliant, coupled with an overall carelessness and a severe habit of not thinking I am quite dangerous to me. Having just listed my injuries in the other thread (I’m sorry I can’t remember who started the thread) it’s a wonder my boyfriends not considering taking the pole off me.
I’ve broken a couple of toes falling down my dungeon stairs, and i’ve fractured my little toe -it’s a wee curly one that doesn’t have all it’s bones. That was interesting, it went a black and I thought I was going to have to have it amputated, but it turned out I’d just mushed one of the veins which fed the blood supply. After you do that the first time you stop going to the docs ‘cos even though here in ol’ blighty, we get it all checked and treated for free, all they can do about it is tape it up, and they won’t give you a sick note off work for that.
Well, siblings on poles, once more unto the breach…
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So far in pole related injuries I’ve:
Spun myself off onto a wall,
Landed on my chin,
my arse,
my shoulder,
my hip,
the top half of my back,
my ear (I used to to rowing and it’s drummed into me ‘Never let go of your oars,’ which seams to translate into ‘Never let go of your pole’)
Scraped my back off a table
Sailed myself over another table (it’s no where near my pole but I was ‘experimenting’ with using all the ‘space’ I have available, and I completely forgot it was there),
gut punched myself with said table (I was so ‘in the moment’ on that one).
Scraped my knees,
and impailed myself on my heels.This excludes the line of bruises I’ve had along the inner side of my thighs, trying to master the various sits and cross legged/ankle/knee holds, the blister bruising i’ve had on the left side of my rib cage, and the skin pulled bruises on the inside of my arm.
So yeh, Pole Dancing.. Completely enjoyable hobby…
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Is the knee hold where you’ve got your top leg hooked round the pole and the bottom leg braced agains the pole? I take it, it is the knee you have braced which is causing you trouble. On your knee, or just directly below it there is a big dip between your knee cap and your shin bone. Below that you should feel the top of your shin bone and then another much smaller dip, with another little hill. Try bracing your leg against this smaller dip (not the dip between your knee cap and your shin bone – i don’t want you shoving your kneecap half way up your thigh) at an angle where you have the most contact with the pole along your shin, this means your knee should be facing down the way, the more your knee faces down the way (with your foot heading towards the ceiling) the more contact you’ll have between the pole and the bit your bracing your knee on. This way, you’ll take the pressure off the bone slightly and transfere it across a larger area. Don’t do it too much or you’ll get no grip on the pole to do the wavey arm thing.
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Cheers Guys,
It’s made all the better for your thoughts of kindess. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif I leave the one leg up and it’s that leg that sticks, I never thought you could slide down with both legs straight out so I might try that. Am going to go get the arnica gel as well.
Feeling much better
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Thanks again. I’m going to try a few a isplingerie.com first. I’ll see how I get one with just the one. Probably the one with the woman and the big cape. I’m at beginner, just getting the hang of my inverts type.
Nx
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Hello All,
My haepney’s worth…It’s easier to have more control when it’s on static. I find I have less control when it’s in spinning mode. I’m trying to learn to control the spin, as I find my grip is getting such that I tend to stay there in spinny mode when I want to slide down. It is better for strength, though I find it tougher, and way more dangerous – I’m worried I’m going to send myself through a window. Also in spinny mode you just kind of have to lean into the pole, not actually push yourself round. I’m used to static now, I intend to use spinny when I can suspend myself using my arms.
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Cheers Lola! There is quite a few there, do you have any recommends? As I’m not really into humping the floor, are there any which are more technical than bump and grindy?
Or anyone else for that matter?
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Woohooo! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
but yeh. What is the dislocator? Sounds like something the inquisition used.
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Hi,
I find the cross ankle release easier than a traditional sit (don’t ask me why). I spent ages trying to do the sit before going onto the release, and then I thought sod it, i’ll just try the cross ankle thing. And I managed it first time. It’s not as graceful as I’d like it to be but that’ll come. If the crecent moon is the wrist sit, then I managed that too, but that was by accident. I tried to get back up the pole but my legs became dislodged. Again, not very graceful but hopefully that’ll come.
Nx
