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My business partners boyfriend loves the pole.
Fortunately, he only ever gets to play at our studio.
So yes, it is the goofing etc.

Funny story, when setting up our poles last night, our builder got one pole up, the proceeded to go into an extended butterfly.
Yeah, he’s one of our students, but he just couldn’t wait to have a go, builders apron and all.

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Street signs, kids playgrounds, flagpoles…. the list goes on.

In the interim, do lots of core workouts, strengthen your abs, obliques, tranverse abs, back and lats.
These will make a difference when you finally get to a pole.

Exercises, not in quantity, but quality will help. Do leg raises slowly to gain controlled strength.
It will hurt, but will be beneficial. Ditto pushups form the knee. I’m sure Veena has exercises on line that will help immensely too.

Good luck on getting a pole!

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lol

The local ED here has spent many nights asking" are you ok" "are you sure you’re ok" of our students.

then they say they pole dance and it’s all over, happy nurses who then ask where to go to learn.

Ergo, tell nursing staff the truth, we may get more converts!! I have a lot of nurses who pole.

BTW: My gp knows about pole due to the amount of injuries we send him as he has a Masters in Sports Med.
Apparently, he’s now at the point of just fixing the problem and sending them on their way.

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Welcome to the world of pole

Its not about how much you "need" to lose to lift yourself, it’s about the strength you will build that will enable you to lift yourself. refer Pole Diva and many others like myself, who are not twigs, yet can move and spin and really work the pole. Actually, refer Pole Diva for amazing lifts, she is incredible.

It will happen, not overnight, but it will happen.
now repeat the pantene promise after me: It will happen, not overnight, but it will happen.

Welcome to the site, I hope you find all the support and friendship you could ever want and more!!

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I will also admit to turning 38. As I don’t look my age, I’m happy to admit to being that old. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

My birthday was entirely overshadowed by the studio’s move.
I haven’t even really celebrated with my husband by having dinner out https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif

Thank you again, it’s very sweet, I usually hide my birthdays as I’m not normally a limelight chick.

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welcome to the site!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif

as a more statuesque woman, I can assure that you will have fun shaking the booty.
strength will build and fat will drop.

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if you remember 30%of it, you’re doing better than me and I was sober!!!

congrats, it’s a great journey. hope the day goes with minimal hitches, pun intended.

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I posted something about this a while ago.

Get up onto the pole. site, hold for 15 seconds.

Get down, fan your inner thighs until the burn goes away.

then do it all over again, but this time hold for 30 seconds.

repeat the fanning motions.

keep doing the 15 – 30 seconds, until 15 seconds becomes really eay. then increase it by 15 seconds until you can do 10 minutes with no problems.

It will hurt, but that will go away.

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LOL. I usually get the bored and can we go home yet look.

Unless it’s a really cool trick. Or he’s feeling frisky and I’m playing to it.

But usually it’s the um, can we do something else look.

Thus proving that the significant others in our lives can be bored of our obsession…
Soooo, you’re not alone. Don’t worry about it, I get the same look on my face with formula one and many, many women have the same facial expressions with rugby and football.

But don’t worry, when you can do something well, he’ll appreciate it.

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Shucks, thank you, all of you….

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I told my Dr exactly how I’d hurt my shoulder, he didn’t even blink.

I’d not kept mine down and back and when stretching had my elbow higher than my shoulder, which caused all the problems.

Go see a reputable Dr, if you were in Wellington, I’d give you my one’s name.

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Sheesh, know that feeling…..

I’ve not been the "preferred daughter" for a long time and I’m the youngest.

Never had any financial help for anything, really, in comparison to what my elder sister got.

So, I became feisty independent. I tell nothing and expect nothing in return from them.
Works really well.

I’ve had to do everything on my own and it’s made me a stronger person.

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thank you! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif

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Ewwwww. How on earth do you sanitise one of those if you have "slippage"?
gross.

But funny.

We could get her the baby mop for Henry too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atdcgiLElKY

and one of these for Webby http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/69e3/

tee hee.

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Happy Birthday miss….

with the studio moving, I’ve been going a bit lala and missing important stuff like this.
Hope you got loads of really cool presents.

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I like the 45mm pole as I have smaller hands, however, once I have learned the trick, I usually move onto a 50mm Steel to perfect it.

If you get a 42mm, you will get stuck if you have to dance on anything bigger.

Chrome is also very slippery, so maybe it’d be best to find a 50mm titanium and see how that works for you.

Gold is quite grippy, silver is less so.

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with practise / experience, an xpole an be taken down and put back up in well under 10 minutes.

The longest part I find is ensuring it’s straight.

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Shoulder height is fine, most people I know usually have their hands about ear height.

But again, if the ab strength isn’t quite there to get the hips up, then it won’t work.
Being my problem, I relate. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

Good luck and we want pictures of the progress.

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did think about this today too and thought that switching sides may help.
Try it.

Also, how high up the pole are your hands when you’re on the ground?
Try to have them no higher than your head, with your strongest hand on top and in "patty cake" / "inky pinky" position. which is were the little finger of the top hand i touching the index finger of the lower hand.

Hope this makes heaps more sense.

added this to the end of another post, lack of sleep and caffeine are what I’m blaming.

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My kids are used to being on the "cutting edge" as we are in the minority in our conservative town as liberal tree hugging buddhist atheists. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_tongue.gif

blardy hippies!! Bet you’re no stranger to lentils too.

ooops, rather tired and posted more on another post!

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It’s not about speed, it’s about strength. That’s what jamilla has said in every class I’ve done with her.
So, its not how many you can do in a row, but how long you can make one last.

ie leg raises, make it last really long, go twice as slow lowering your legs as you did raising them.
that’s the way to build strength in the abs – and it works, about once a week, I have a go at a basic invert and I notice the difference.

So try that for a bit and see if it makes a difference.

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We teach all our spins on static, it’s only when students are at late beginner stage we let them loose on spinny.

Static is far better as you learn how to use strength and momentum rather than holding on for dear life.

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believe me, everyone goes through this stage. and it will return.

The best thing is to accept it as part of poling and focus on another part for a while.
If you can’t get good pole time, move the pole – or the WoW player. (BTW, have you seen the Guild?? http://www.watchtheguild.com things will make sense to you)

It’s not just strength, it’s also muscle memory and we all know how easy it is to forget something if we haven’t done it for a while.

Don’t worry, it will all get much better!! Cold and rainy makes poles less sticky too.

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having danced at my accountants new years bash, the kids treated the pole like it was a jungle gym and just wanted to spin and climb. They saw it as a piece of gymnastic equipment – so did their parents!!

It’s only us adults that have the skewed view of pole. Kids should see it as a piece of fitness equipment.
Veena’s boys play on hers – and it’s really cute.

If you are concerned about raised eyebrows, install a portable like an X or PS. then you can claim that the area is a dedicated exercise area without going into too much detail.

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You need to get your hips higher, that will help the hand positioning.
This is a really common problem for women who are early inverters without good training.

As your hands are between your knees, this is causing the problems, you need to get them further up your thighs, which will make it far easier to release your hands and get your knees around the pole.
thighs are more squishy than bony knees, which will mean you can wrap your legs around the pole better.

Lift you hips as high as you can get them.
I’m sure Veena has great videos to instruct, if not, try the Jamilla videos.

your current problem is really common and is exacerbated by the eagerness to invert AFAP.

Also ensure you can do a good crucifix too, the leg positions are very similar.
And make sure that there’s no flinging of legs to get up the pole, use your abs to lift your hips.

Hope this helps, but it’s what I have to correct when girls are trying to invert without training.