PoleKitten87
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My pole never comes down – it's a permanent lol! My MIL is cool with it, and so is my husband's aunts and uncles and grandparents. My maternal grandmother LOVES that I pole and shows people pictures of me all the time. My friend and I are staying at her house for USPDF and plan on bringing one of the X-poles to set up at her house for the weekend – I'm gonna get her on it!
But my mother, oh my mother. She wont even go near the pole, or that end of the house except to use the guest bathroom (WHEN she visits… I've lived here 6 years, three hours away, and they've visited me 4 times). She's expressed to my grandmother she doesn't care about anything I can do on the pole, silks, or hoop. Rolls her eyes at my heels and asked me one time "Are you REALLY going to wear those out?" (My clear 7" with black straps!)
I definitely LOL'd at the "Can you?" !!
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I'm a trixster. Not big into the dance part because I dont flow well (at all), and am more into the strength involved https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif I like watching all sorts of cool tricks and ways to get into them from others moreso than dancing around the pole or doing floorwork. (My friend and I agree, the floor is hard! lol!) I get bored watching performances that are 90% dance 10% tricks. But that's just me 🙂 Me and my pole buddy call ourselves "Zorayas" rather than, say, "Aletheas" when describing style. That's the great thing about pole – so many different styles.
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I have a Mirena as well. Got it in December, and hyped myself up for excessive pain. Barely felt much except slight pressure for 15 seconds or so. (Never had kids, just waiting on the 5 years of having the Mirena before the doc will give me a TL or Essure). Had a great experience with it the first 2 months. February I had a 2-week period, but its supposed to be crazy for the first 4-6 months anyway. So far so good with it. I have noticed some more breakouts on my chest though since getting it.
Before this, i was on Yaz for 4 years. Worked great, just got tired of having to remember it everyday, and taking it could be a pain because I work in a lab where no food & drink are allowed. Or I'd get caught up and be late on it and freak out, even if it was 30 minutes lol. Once my doc offered Mirena, I was sold (since she wouldn't fix me at 23 haha).
BC affects everyone differently, it sucks that there is no standard side effects – some people will break out, gain weight, etc while others wont. Good luck!
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Give it some time, everyone is made differently 🙂 When I started some of us could hold ourselves off the ground, and then there were some girls who could not. But after a few classes, you could see the improvements all around. You'll get there!
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Hmm, Sugar Ray was the first album I bought, maybe I'll make this my first challenge LOL. My team leader at work suggested I dance to "Fly" haha.
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I went 3-4 weeks without poling back in January & couldn't believe how many tricks I lost and the difference in strength! Now I'm trying to be sure to get at least 1 day in a week of extensive pole stuff (used to pole 3-4x a week for 3+ hours each time! Darn you, school for interfering!)
Hope your body rewards you for taking it pretty easy! 🙂
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I'm one of the people Sair mentions at the end lol. I hate brass, love chrome 🙂 Cant ever get a decent grip on a brass in my experience. But I'm glad to hear that X-pole plans to offer brass for those who like it!! It's great to have a company that will sell a variety of product finishes to fit everyone's wants 🙂
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Yep. Your body eventually conditions itself to it. 🙂
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I've been to one of the strip clubs here before and none of them did anything but use the pole as a prop to walk around or hold onto while they bent over. The others I've heard are the same way in this area. But I've also heard from guys I work with that they've been to places in other cities and states where there are some dancers who have pole skills 🙂
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I had one sort of before, I could only get up into a tuck, never straddle or jackknife or anything once I was up. Yesterday, after some tweaking in stance while jamming with some talented ladies, I got a TG handspring into straddle, although only could hold for a split second each time. Probably a lot due to excitement in getting it! Whenever I get the vid I'll probably post it.
I found that starting lower helped a lot. I put my top arm at shoulder height like I would doing a cartwheel mount, then twisted the grip, and put my bottom arm pretty low. Bent down and "piked" my legs before giving a kick for my momentum (nowhere near being able to just lift yet). The leg momentum on my leading leg might have helped continue my trip up into the TG straddle, instead of staying tucked the whole time.
Hope that makes some sort of sense.
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My cats are in nearly every at-home pole pic I have. I have three, and say they are my agents, biggest fans, and spotters hahaha. One of them will stand at the bottom and meow if I climb the pole until I come down. And flops on the floor right under my feet. Have a few pics where he attacked my pole shoe lol.
I'm a crazy cat lady who poles 🙂
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I looove checking out ceiling height in places. I'm always looking up thinking "this'd be a good place for a pole"….
I also found the perfect space for a studio – high ceilings and hardwood floors already there. Too bad I don't have time to run a studio!
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I record certain trick attempts now to see if I'm close, or see my progress (like extended aysha and extended pencil). I keep telling myself I'm going to make a pole vid soon. I have a couple but they are from when I was a beginner and I'm not a fan of watching them much lol. It's good for laughs but I privatized them on YT so no one could see them haha. We do take lots of pictures of stuff though, and are making our own printed "wikipole photo album".
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I have a chrome PS 50mm pole I find to take a lot longer to warm up than a 50mm chrome Xpole. I'm a chromie fan though, so I haven't tried a TG one.
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I have a 50mm pole, and am planning on ordering a 45mm one as well to have a variation. 45mm is better for smaller hands to grip, but 50mm is a more standard pole.
I've used someone elses' 45mm pole and didn't notice TOO much of a difference except that my fingers went further around it. My hands fit a 50mm pretty well also though (long fingers!)
