Rouge_LAmour
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I've heard Lou and family (from Pole Bar, badly hit last time) are all ok too.
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watch out with iTac if you react to rosin…
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can you give some context on your "processing error"?
What are your settings? are they on the highest they could possibly be? can you sacrifice some of your settings for speed?
Just a couple of quite sensible questions as we render Maya CG work on one of our machines here and depending on the settings it can take anywhere between 45 seconds to 10 minutes per frame.
What editing software are you using too? WMM is pretty shoddy and Id recommend considering Sony Vegas if you have a Windows machine or iMovie for Mac. Vegas offers a cut down consumer level product, so you don’t need to fork out for a professional product like Final Cut or Avid and iMovie is just fine.
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flexibility is a little genetic, but mainly takes a s#$tload of hardwork.
Keep stretching your body and over time it will happen: it’s the Pantene promise, it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.
Also ensure you’re doing your splits training on super warm muscles.
Ease them into each stretch, kind of like a heads up, I’m going to do this to you.Then hold your stretch at the beginnings of discomfort, until that discomfort goes away.
then contract those muscles for 30 seconds, and take the stretch just that bit further.For side splits, we recommend having your feet in a v / straddle position on the floor while watching TV, at each ad break, bend your big toe towards the floor, hold it there. then push your hips forward when the show resumes.
If you feel "bad Pain", and you’ll know the difference, then take the stretch back a notch.We’ve been running splits classes with a very experienced and qualified PT at my studio since July and they’ve made a difference.
the other thing to remember that to do the splits you need a stretch, a contracting muscles and one remaining static. ergo core is the static hold as that’s holding up your upper body, and in the front splits, one leg has a contracting quad and stretching Hammie, while in the other leg, it’s reversed.
Hope that helps.
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Johnny Depp.
Alterna-Geeks are hot.
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blah blah blah
windows movie maker sucks
blah blah blah
(shuffles back to couch)anyway, WMM is a pretty crappy product. Get a trial of Vegas – although with Vista it’ll take forever asking if you really want to do this. (i’ve said yes once, isn’t that enough!!!).
Vegas is good for the level that is uploaded here.iMovie is fine for Mac users, however, FCP just rocks. Which is what Veena, WebMaster and I use for all our work.
It’s a pro product, but worth every cent if you have a Mac, but not essential to have.
I like the fact FCP can interface with Maya, Shake, Toxik and all sorts of other cool products.Bite the bullet and pay the $55 for Vegas – you won’t regret it and in comparison to the $1800 NZD that we pay for FCP, you’re getting a good deal.
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broken toes (same toe, 2 weeks apart, same move and teaching the same class – the second time was telling them how not to break the toe)
Shoulder impingement from not being taught correct technique when I started. Nights of waking up in tears from the pain has been my lesson.
I am the queen of the loose x-pole – I’ll bring it down if it’s loose!!
Stages that aren’t firm will also loosen your pole – fell on my back doing that.
Jumping at the pole when doing a mermaid / martini spin (bruised foo foo’s aren’t nice)
ummmm, don’t come out of a layback into a handstand if you can’t do handstands.
watch heels when sticking legs out (slashed another students leg one day, 1cm deep by 7cm long)I am a klutz and do get clumsy. But it makes me human!
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try ti tree oil. It worked for me when I reacted badly to rosin.
Also check out the chemicals in products you’re using: do they contain any methyl or ethyl parabens – these cause skin irritations in a lot of people.
I get contact irritation from rosin (used by gymnasts / tissu etc for grip), chicken, honey and surgical steel in addition to many other things. It’s part of why I went vegan and that has helped.
I can minor irritations from very dry skin and have had eczema all my life.
Keep the irritations well emoliated with pure oils; lavender may help reduce the itch, ti / tea tree oil will work wonders, but does take some time.
Don’t use hydrocortisone too frequently, the body builds an immunity to it and it stops working. 10% doesn’t work on me now and neither do many alternatives. Ergo manuka and kanuka oil.Good luck!
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get a free download of Sony Vegas.
WMM does all sorts of crappy things.
Vegas will work fine with XP and I think the patches are nearly out for Windows 7.
The V OS that dares not speak it’s name has patches, for Vegas, but I’d slip that when you upgrade and go direct to W7.Yes, I’m still around…
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have you tried tea tree oil? that has helped me out.
and keeping the area well emoliated, use products without methyl or ethyl parabens as they may aggravate it too.Also, are you on any medication that might have photo sensitivity as a side effect?
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Anywhere between immediately and "only crazy people do that!". The "lightbulb" moment is different for everyone.
Hurkey / Attitude I got immediately, but the corkscrew / cradle is a mystery and will remain that way.As many have has said, 10 weeks seems pretty soon to be learning Scorpio and Gemini.
Also, when doing these, ensure you have the pole n the top of your hip, you can break ribs with the pressure if it’s too high up the body.It seems great to be doing these "hard"moves early, but without the muscle memory, the results can be painful.
You may have the strength to do them, but the muscles need to know exactly where they are going first.
Be careful, I don’t want a post saying you’ve broken your ribs or other injury.
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Icanhasgoldtgpole.com ?? Lolpole? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
Glad you have one, I love ours at the studio,in fact it’s the only pole that people say they want to take home with them.
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Is your Lappie running Windows 7 or (shudders) Vista?
WMM should have been an automatic with a windows operating system.Bite the bullet, get Sony Vegas. WMM should be scrapped, it’s an irritating response to iMovie.
Vegas can be found for free as a trial or can be purchased for under $60USD.Unless you have purchased a Mac, WMM will not ever work on a Mac. But you’ve got iMovie!
Vegas will compress and do everything you want it to do.Also watch your security packs /updates; we got a Mac OS update that started crashing Maya (3d animation software, not cheap). turned out the new update caused problems, when we regressed, it fixed itself.
Crashes occurred 2 days before we were doing a huge performance where the animations were crucial…
3 calls to Singapore, Toronto and Australia later, we got it sorted.So check your OS, look at the updates and then purchase Vegas. It’s a great product if you have Windows. Heaps of films are edited on it and it’s fine at domestic level.
We use Final Cut at home for editing and outputting / compositing, but that’s Mac product and very nice.
Veena uses it now too.Good luck with getting your vid’s up.
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Major PC moment:
My call is on using the poi: they are taonga (treasure) to Maori and I feel that using them as part of a sexually themed dance is a little disrespectful.It’s akin to using a First Nation head dress or something similar, someone will feel uncomfortable about it. The British colonialists really screwed up far too many cultures (First Nation, Maori, Aborigine of Australia – who were considered Fauna by the Australian Government until the 1960’s!) that using these things without understanding the whakapapa of the taonga is wrong. Maori have a very strong understanding of their cultural identity – well the ones who will stand up for it, and they have forced very large companies to back down on using Maori taonga.
If you are going to use poi, remember that they are weapons too; Maori used poi weighted with stones to build up their wrist muscles. rf http://www.digitalconversations.org.nz/vc/weaponry/
Maori warriors used heavy poi as a training device to better their delivery with the Patu, a short club for up close fighting. Using poi to strengthen for pole wouldn’t be silly!read up further, especially any .nz site. The make your decision about using poi.
Right, PC bit over: fire poi rock!!
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That is my favourite childhood book!!
no idea about the caterpillar move, but love the book.
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The fact that it has the KT Coates DVD means that it has broken copyright laws.
Basically you can scare the beejeebus out of your friend by saying that she has a pirated DVD and if caught is liable for serious fines (up to $250k).The DVD is the main thing that x-pole are getting the forgers on, so let your friend know that, I mean would she really want to be caught with pirated goods that could land her in big trouble??
Also, if you can get hold of the receipt, send the details to x-pole UK, they will be rather happy to get the details of the importer and can then get them via the courts for distribution of pirated material.
This is how we got them off Trade me (kiwi version of eBay), purely by the pirated DVD.
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happy Goth New year / Xmas to all you little bats out there too!!
Happy Hallowed eve / all hallows eve to the pagans,
happy all saints day to tall the Christians out there for tomorrow.Yes, this is the New Years / Xmas for goths; we have no other real celebration except this. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
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far more simple: dump WMM and get a free download (trial) of Sony Vegas.
It works far better than WMM.WMM is a really crappy product that is not suited for editing videos.
It constantly drops frames, creating jerky films; is a nightmare to work with and I would suggest not using it for anything.Vegas is a pro product, however they have a free trial and it also can be purchased pretty cheaply, ie under $60 US last time I looked.
If you are serious about making good looking vids, then get vegas. It’s a good product.We use Final Cut for editing at home – mind you, we have a film company and now we’re using Maya for modelling and animation, so it makes sense. Yes, we are Mac heads.
So, in a nutshell, try Vegas and see how it goes – you may notice a marked improvement in the end product.
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to assist most of you who wonder if you’re ready, after 2 years, I still don’t invert – laybacks excepted…
You do need ab strength and you cannot "fling" into the position – nor can you drop your arms. PoleGirlSonia had a student not listen to her about that and dislocated ribs – you have been warned.
We’re in a sport that is hard physical work. ensure you’re conditioned prior to doing the trick.
Even seasoned dancers have learned things off newbies who have learned techniques correctly.Take your time with inverts – they may be cool, but they are also dangerous and you need to be physically ready for them.
anyway, inverting’s for crazy folk…
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Keep going on the exercises – they do work.
Once you’re at 5 minutes, you’ll wonder what you were wondering about.
The grip also means you can sit without using your arms, great for some moves.You may think thighs are bad now – just wait until you start armpit and knee holds.
Those make pole sits seem easy!!Rouge
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shame you’re not in Wellington, New Zealand – we’ve just started up a silks class.
to make you want to do it even more, here’s our tutor performing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edOU5_mxDhkSHe also teaches our Burlesque class.
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Get an x-pole, we’ve had 100kg plus rugby players (All Blacks if you follow rugby) swing on ours and they haven’t pulled them down!
Chris Measday told me that Xpole have a sideways force rating of 2500kg, which is huge!!
Any static, permanent pole should be fine, I weighed a fair amount more than 180lb when I started and didn’t pull over static poles.
According to health nazis, I’m still morbidly obese, but what do they know!
What you will notice is that the fat will drop and muscle will build and you should avoid measuring toning etc via the scales, measure it by your new achievements: Strength, flexibility, new poses / spins etc.
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and he’s kept coming back to class too!!
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go to the hardware / building supply shop and get 2 10" stanley screwdrivers.
way cheaper than the release tools and Stanley is a strong brand.
We use them at the studio and they are brilliant.
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I love their "Half A55 episodes", where they do Jackass type stunts, but Nana versions, like running with scissors and other simple, less harmful stuff.
And the Tui sneak (where they sneak cans of beer into an event on camera.)
Bill and Ben, let us count the ways we love you….
