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I'm really excited to get into the community properly once my pole arrives – I think I might just have to take part in this challenge even though my moves won't be very good 😀 it'll definitely be more on the sexy side than athletic, lol. But what TV show… I haven't actually had a TV for so long! 

The Big Bang Theory? Not entirely sure how I'd do that, unless I was demonstrating different aspects of physics!!

Lie to Me? Love that show, but no idea how to work that 😀

Dark Angel? I absolutely looovvveeed that when it was on! I think this is my most likely choice XD

Shows I watched when I was a kid are all pretty childish ones… which might be a little wrong if all I can do on a pole right now is the sexy stuff! Also lots of it was (and still is!) anime, and I don't know if that counts…

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I can definitely do something like those; I've been sewing since I was little so I'm not Alexander McQueen yet, but I can definitely make most things to a professional standard 🙂 yeah I have all my pages set up ready so that when I have everything made I can just stick them on there instead of having to worry about the web stuff, lol. 

 

I think I'd do them slightly different anyway – I've never seen wet-look lace anywhere before! But still, it's also quite a distinctive design, and if people sold the exact same things as designer items at lower prices, the designers would never make any money. So they always have to be slightly different – that or they're technically illegal, ha. But yeah I can do my version of it =] when I've put stuff up you can tell me if you like it and if you want something slightly different I'll probably be able to customise it a little if you want =]

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Lol, kasanya – exactly what I was thinking! It made sense to me, but with a bit of internal translation going on 😛

I'm going to have a proper look in a minute, but is it just for front splits? I'm kinda okay with those, not there yet but I know that if I keep going I'll get there. It's really side split that I have problems with, it feels like I'm just not built to go that way – that's how bad my side split is! Need some help with that ><

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Ditto lozzii, come round England! We're full of poles 😀

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I've wanted those AP ones for so long!! £70 though, I don't think so lol. 

 

But, I've been meaning to make them for ages… I make everything else ha. Pretty sure it's copyright infringement if I sell the exact same design for cheaper but if anyone else wants something similar, I'm going to be making and selling all kinds of things fairly soon. My website is dead at the moment but if you go to my Facebook page ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/ChouxLaLa/146913388690900 – separate from my personal one, just for the hell of it ;D ) you'll see when I start putting pics up =] there'll be cute stuff but there'll definitely be sexy stuff too!

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Hmm well mine is a little odd about the fact that I spend more time looking at poledancers and big boobs (I've wanted a boob job for years so I look at forums and stuff about that too) than he does, but I've yet to find out whether that's a good or bad kind of odd…

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Hmmm… link seems to have died in the new formatting lol. http://chouxlala.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-things-get-stressful.html

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Lol, just came to this thread by chance… I’m making a note here: huge success https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif I was gonna say ironing or something similar – ironing makes a room so hot and pretty humid too if you’ve got the steam function on, so that should definitely help!

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First up, go here: http://chouxlala.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-things-get-stressful.html

Yes, shameless self-promotion, but I wrote that article because the stuff in it works and is stuff I need to do more lol.

Basically you need to break it up. Try to pole for an hour 2 or 3 times a week and that way you’ll at least get some done, even if you can’t do a 3hr session every day. I’m at college and although I’m only in 3 days a week, I also have to work on my projects at home, I’m looking for a job, I’ll be poling when my pole gets here, I’m going to be working on my driving license, my brand really needs some work in all kinds of ways (especially if I want to be able to call it a brand!), I do contortion training, I’d like to start running again and probably going to the gym, I have 3 cats, I do general work around my flat, I spend forever on my hair and nails, I go out for shopping and research, I have a boyfriend and group of friends who I generally see separately, and I’m my mum’s carer/PA. Naturally, when I don’t make the effort, I can’t fit it all in. Just trying to do stuff doesn’t work. But I got a whiteboard that I stick up on my wall, and a corkboard, and a diary, and a calendar – that way I can see what my days are looking like at a glance, arrange it in general on one organiser and in detail on another, and then I don’t have to think about it for ages; I just look at what I wrote down before. It’s about prioritising, figuring out how much time you have and how much you need for various things, and sticking to that. Find out what works for you – eg, I once tried cutting 4hrs out of my sleep a night, because I tend to sleep for 12hrs and figured I should go for the recommended 8… it didn’t work at all! All that happened was I slept in and then felt like I’d lost 4hrs of my day – because anything I’d had planned for that morning, I’d missed, and wasn’t getting it done. When I rehashed my plan to include all 12hrs of sleep, I got more stuff done. I felt more satisfied at the end of my day, and I slept better – meaning that in the end, I woke up earlier anyway!

You’ll be surprised at how much you can fit into the day when you work out how to do it https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif when you can slot in a little bit here and there, you’ll maintain your fitness level without having to lose too much time for other things. Then when the weekends and holidays come around, you can go back to it and you should feel just fine! Hope that helps https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif

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Haha yes that’s true about just copying from videos – but I still think it’s a good list to look at for ideas of what to start with https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif you could take the names down from that site and then see what Veena has here. I just thought the page was arranged in such a way that it makes it very easy to scroll down the list and have a quick look for some moves you’d like to try, then you can refer back here for instruction on how to go about it https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif

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Ouch =S protein! Protein and calcium. When I broke my legs they practically made me live off milk in hospital lol, you definitely need the calcium. And vitamin D to help your body absorb calcium. You can get vitamin supplements that do both, maybe those would help a little. But if you get back on the pole too soon you’ll ruin it again ><

I’m quite liking this site for beginner moves http://www.poledancecommunity.co.uk/syllabus.html I can’t remember who but somebody posted it up here not long ago and it’s really good https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif I’m going to be combining it with Veena’s strength & beginner lessons. But I definitely agree that levels are subjective – if you go to that link, apart from the fact that some of the moves are on levels 1, 2 and 3 https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_question.gif, there are some that are supposedly intermediate that I’m pretty sure I could do now, and I’ve never really poled before. I guess we’ll find out if that’s true or not when my pole gets here lol but different people will have to start at different levels. I’m guessing those things about myself because I’ve already been doing DDR and contortion and my strength seems to be building up quickly from a few conditioning exercises, so I think maybe the beginner stuff might be aimed at someone who’s spent their life sitting at a computer desk and has only just decided to do something about it. Depends really https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif

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I’m wondering the same thing https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_scratch.gif perhaps where your family’s concerned you should strip it of its sexiness, at least at first. I don’t really know what your parents are like but that would at least remove that part of it, lol. Go for the athletic/artistic angle and just say it’s not about being sexy. They don’t have to know you enjoy that bit as well https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif as for everyone else – the only problem I’m having with it is telling people I poledance and being seen as ‘easy’ https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif I’ve not really started yet so I’ve only told a few friends that I’m thinking of trying it, but I’ve had a similar problem with telling people I’m bisexual. I’m a pretty open person so I don’t really keep secrets (especially considering that pretty much my entire circle of friends is gay, bisexual or at least bicurious) but I found that it seemed to attract a lot of guys… and obviously for the wrong reasons. I’m guessing it could be similar with poledancing; guys everywhere will think that means I’ll give them free naked lapdances and stuff ha. People have such predetermined ideas about everything >< bah.

So yeah I guess I haven’t quite figured out how to deal with the general public yet https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_question.gif apart from just keeping it secret somewhere being judged might have a direct effect on you (like at work or something – if it’s gonna cause you problems there’s not much point in saying it) and not caring what people think anywhere else lol. Or again, talk about all the competitions and things, all the strength and flexibility you need for standing on a vertical pole (which I certainly never thought was possible until I looked into pole properly) and all the naked ass-shaking that doesn’t get done https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif then when people are interested you can go into the little sexy added bits, but even then it’s still on top of all the athleticism and gymnastics.

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I read through the first one earlier… couldn’t get much relief from it unfortunately https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif as for the second one…

"A friend of mine who built her own home says these old houses were built so far beyond code, that they can take much more that newer homes."

Haha, and I live in a flat that’s younger than me. And I’ve yet to turn 20 =P either way, 400mm is roughly 16in, so I’m guessing there isn’t much difference between US and UK beams after all…? Or is that just in Victorian homes -_- hurm. I did get up there again a minute ago and while I was trying to rub all the pencil marks off my ceiling I noticed it made a slightly different sound when I scraped two different places. But there definitely wasn’t 16in/400mm in the middle… more like a foot. I’m guessing that’s plausible? Gonna check it again tomorrow, I might have changed my mind by then ha. But at this rate I’m just gonna end up putting it up wherever I think there could possibly maybe conceivably be a beam, hoping the building doesn’t explode and checking it in a week to see if anything’s broken…

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…Salt. I have salt on everything <D I neeeeed salt lol I tried cutting back on it a little once (and then again, and again…) and gave it a month or two and I still couldn’t get used to the taste of things with less salt! Which is weird cause I made myself switch to low fat foods and artificial sweeteners pretty easily, just made myself eat them for a while and eventually I got used to it, but salt I seem to really have a problem with https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_scratch.gif and I crave cheese… a lot. I don’t eat it all the time but sometimes I just crave it and then everything I eat for the next week has to have cheese in it. Arg… I really do need to sort out my diet, but I didn’t know it could affect sweating as well https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_question.gif

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I’m pretty easy to find by name on Facebook – Tamora Cross, I’m the only one lol. Not a lot of pole on there yet, but watch this space https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_twisted.gif