PippiParnasse
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Start by picking a piece you love love love love love. If it makes you need to dance, you will dance. Go for that connection instead of trying to mimic every musical or lyrical detail.
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Welcome! I live on the North Shore too. I work in Ipswich which is very close to Amesbury, so we'll have to have a power lunch sometime!
I agree with Elektra, North Shore Pole Fitness is the only place accessible if you're that far North. I drop by there occasionally and love it. Here's from my first time: http://acrobaticpole.blogspot.com/2012/11/studio-review-north-shore-pole-fitness.html
Look forward to meeting you!
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I think I can help, I live in a really touristy area (Salem MA = witch city). I’ll pm you.
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I only use it for “emergencies,” like it you’re going to be performing a dangerous move and worried about a specific body grip (like back of the knee). It’s fine for brass. But I’ve never put it directly on the pole. And it is too grippy for general use. There are subtle ways your body slides around the pole that you aren’t even aware of til it can’t.
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I had one for awhile. I think I got it doing back bridges. I smashed mine and it hasn’t come back, and that was years ago.
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@Elektra I also lived in Paris and have spent time in Berlin. (And live in Boston as you know.) Random!
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Yeah I’m easy to find, I’m like the only Pippi
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Yay! I 9-5 but am around eves/weekends. And Salem is sooooooo great!!
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YAY new friends! 😀
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Kettlebell swings are best for butt. But I’d agree that if you’re trying to lift & lengthen, various leg lifts are good. And just a good habit to practice is to really use your glutes to drive your leg to the floor when you’re doing things like jade splits, outside leg hang (when the free leg is straight), etc. getting used to that feeling.
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I live in Salem MA and love to hang out and meet people but am also sadly without a car for the time being. So anybody who wants to jam has to come to me! I pretty much only pole “out” when I can snag a ride.
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I love my brass and I find it more reliably grippy than other finishes. But I do find it to be very sensitive to temperature. Turn a space heater directly on it before you use it (while you are warming up is great), as hot and as long as you can without feeling a sweat coming on. Also, respect that the pole needs time to warm up to practice just like you do. Start your training session with moves that don't require a lot of grip, like spins. Let that friction work its magic, and by the time you're ready for the more grip-dependent stuff it should be ready to support you.
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Yayy! I just moved here a few months ago so I don't know a ton of people yet 🙂
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Chemgoddes makes an excellent point about it being a safety move, or a "bail" as I like to say. It is worth being patient enough to make friends with it before you move on. It's the kind of thing you not only want to be able to do, but to be able to do quickly at the drop of a hat no matter how tired or sore you are!
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Just want to mention that, in my experience, calling yourself vegan or vegetarian or semi-vegetarian varies regionally. When I lived in Europe I found that most people I knew there who called themselves "vegetarians" ate fish and maybe poultry, whereas in the US "vegetarian" usually means ovo-lacto but no fish. And there are as many levels of veganism as there are vegans, from non-ovo-lacto vegetarians (who still eat honey and wear leather) to not eating anything with sugar because you don't know if the sugar was whitened with animal bones.
Whichever you are, thank you for your compassion towards animals! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_heart1.gif
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I also thought I was the only one. 🙂 I attributed my aversion to the screaming to the fact that I hang around with men a lot, and you know, they don't, like, scream.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the support. Audience enthusiams is really rewarding.
Oh, also? It's really awkward when people are screaming and then you do something that YOU think/know is cool/difficult, but the more vocal members of the audience don't "get it" and all of a sudden the room's quiet and you lose your morale… but then that's part of knowing how to work a room, I guess.
Incidentally, I have a background in opera, and audience members definitely do shout "brava," but typically the ones who are passionate enough to yell also know the music so well that they know the exact times when it's appropriate.
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Amen to that!
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Haha well if you’re advertising yourself as “world famous” then yeah, people better have heard of you…
I’ve been poling for 9 years so I know where you’re coming from. And no, you would not have been able to find much info about me online before my previous relocation. I didn’t have a need before then for an online presence. But I also never claimed to be famous or a master at anything. That’s what we in journalism would label “self-described…”
But I still say judge Natasha’s work on its own merit. If it’s really awesome and helpful, I don’t care how famous she is. 🙂
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Right, I mean I'd be more interested in feedback about the product than the inventor.
Incidentally, I've been asked to write books and make training videos before. And a part of me hesitates because even though I know the people who do know me and have worked with me would be excited about it, I just know others would do the "who the hell is this person" thing, and I don't want to go through that.
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The pole and circus worlds are big enough that we all don’t know each other/haven’t heard of each other. I caught a lot of flack from some people when I moved to a new area because they “hadn’t heard of me” because I didn’t have an online presence before that (I didn’t need it). Truthfully, I hadn’t heard of them either.
This experience makes me really want to give people the benefit of the doubt and judge a tree by its fruit. People outside our usual circles are most likely to have a fresh, unique take on things.
Also, as a writer, I can say that people who write books (articles blogs etc) are not usually the people at the top of the industry. They are writers who have some level of expertise in what they’re writing about.
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You need to hire someone. There’s a reason this info isn’t online. Installing silks without knowing what you’re doing is one of the most dangerous things you can do in an already death-defying art.
An engineer will do in a pinch (more of us know engineers who will help us out) but an actual rigger is what you want.
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Best thing for me when I started back on silks after a long time away was to stick my hands in one of those wine sleeves you put in the freezer.
As for whether once a week is sufficient… sufficient for what? Obvs that depends on a million things like your goals and current fitness levels, so I dont think anyone here can answer that. But, I would say don’t add another class til you get the hand pain under control.
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Oh weird, just saw it posted the wrong link for some reason. Let's try that again. Sexy vs. sporty: understanding each other http://acrobaticpole.blogspot.com/2012/09/sexy-vs-sporty-understanding-each-other.html
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I have taught pole to children in a circus setting. No eyebrows were raised. Actually, the school sought me out because they had more kids wanting to sign up for pole than they could accommodate.
It IS about branding and connotations. This is a hard thing to say because we don’t want to hear it and I hate to be the bad guy, but you can’t have it both ways. I respect that some people prefer to up play the sensuality while others prefer to downplay it, but you can’t say “pole is about expressing your erotic creature! Oh, except not this time, now there’s nothing erotic about it.” I mean, you CAN say that, but you can’t feed that story to the media. I write for magazines, so I have experience in this. A short piece (whether for print or television) only has room to cover a simple narritive. That narrative might be “here is a touching story,” “this situation is getting better/worse,” or “this is a controversy and here is what both sides have to say about it.” we really like that last one because it involves the least amount of bias on our part (of course there is still plenty of room to influence the discussion, but at least we don’t have to overtly pick a side). Reality is never that simple, but presenting every last nuance is not practical unless it’s a headlining story. So you can’t brand pole with sex, then change your story, and expect the media to present the full complexity of the situation.
The question is whether the choice needs to be made on the studio level or the industry level. Maybe studio is enough, as Charley described. An industry-wide sterilization from sensuality would dispell the controversy, but is just not going to happen. (Going into more depth on this subject is beyond the scope of this post, but you can read my blog “sexy vs. sporty pole: understanding each other” here: http://acrobaticpole.blogspot.com/2011/09/pole-and-silks-sister-arts.html )
There is some low-hanging fruit we can pick here, though. It’s our job to make the public aware that most pole dancing does NOT occur in strip clubs (most exotic dancing does, but not most serious poling), and NO ONE takes up pole to become a stripper-in-training. I’ve been teaching for years, and have taught many exotic dancers, but I have never had a student who was planning on using skills learned in pole class to break into the adult entertainment industry. if anything, polers get scared off of any thoughts about stripping by hearing negative things about it from strippers they do cross paths with in the pole community. WE are the ones who have to clarify these misconceptions.
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I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with dancing for money, whether you use a pole or not, whether you use clothing or not.
I also think there is a difference between being an entertainer and being a squeeze toy.
I am not in the adult industry (I have a very low bullshit tolerance and also a tendency to hit people who get in my personal space), but from what I've seen there are few clubs that actually enforce no-touching rules. And at least in NY the ones that are (theoretically) cleaner and stricter don't allow pole work anyway.
If someone is fine with letting their performance be, uh, interactive… whether it's their boots or their boobs that are getting manual attention, that is fine! I just don't think that's dancing. So if want you want is to DANCE, you should do some research first. 🙂
