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Thank you so much ladies! I happened to have a doctor in my class today, her advice was:
rest (duh!), and rub with tigerbalm. There are plenty of salves and stuff on the market she said, with or without added painkillers (like voltaren), but tigerbalm is still the best (although not really "mediciny" stuff). https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif
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Thank you Reenie!!
So you recommend cooling it – I will try that! I've had it before and never went to see a doctor, it always went away after a couple of days. But perhaps you're right, sigh. I'll still go and ask the apothecary first… perhaps they can give me a nice balm or something.
YES, I hate the R-word! lol … resting sucks! Also, in our studio we do everything on both sides – so now I have it on both my arms. I don't want to think about the pain I woud have if I'd done it on one side only https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif
I am concerned why it appeared now. As I said, I did nothing especially tiring, just a couple of spins and inverts … no handspring or such! I used to teach 4 classes a week before my 2 week break, and I had nothing, but now, after only 2 (as the week's just started), I have pain? I mean, what the heck? Not fair! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
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i can make sounds like sheep, and i've had several lambs answering my cries. i also make a pretty decent chicken sound, and can imitate a child's voice perfectly. apart from that … probably my biggest "talent" (and most annoying for myself, lol) is noticing the nervous tics (fads?) a person has within absolutely no time and then being constantly annoyed by them, while no one around me has ever noticed them until i point them out (and sometimes not even then, lol). https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
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Sooo, I've had enough time now to try the Meluna cup (thank you Crystal aka Witchess for liking my post and reminding me of this thread! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
First things first: I love it. I am never going back to using tampons. Ever. Noooooo way.
I like that it does not dry you out, and that it's absolutely no harm to your body. You can't get sick from it – tampons can make you sick. I absolutely love the fact that it's much better for Mother Nature, aaaaand for your purse! ^^ (Really … calculate how much money you spend on tampons etc. in one year. It must be around 100-150€ or 130-200USD. It's way too much. And then imagine how much waste there is, just because of this. Unbelievable.)
Another good thing about it is, no more fear of a blue thread hanging out of your bottoms when you're going swimming!
True, removing it needed a bit of practise. And sometimes a little bit comes out to stain my underwear. But that was the same with tampons – when I started to use them, I had to practise how to get it in and out (and even after years it hurt sometimes), and often hald of it would be soaked through, leaving stains in my panties, while the other half was as dry as a new one. Which hurt when I removed it. Ugh. (I talked to my best friend about it, and apparently, that's not something that only happened to me.)
The only downside for me is, that I don't always have one at hand when the period starts surprisingly. You can't buy cups in the shops here, so if it really surprises me when I am on the road and there is no time to go home, I'll have to use those much hated tampons (buy them, or borrow one, or find another way not to bleed in my jeans until I come home).
I can not compare the Meluna to other brands, as I've only tried this one, but I can certainly recommend it. I prefer the one with the ball to the one with the stem or the ring. Can't imagine using it without anything at the bottom now, though. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cool.gif
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I've watched a lot of "how to put rhinestones on shoes"-videos on youtube recently, they all worked with glue e-6000. and most of them said it's way better to work with glue than the hotfix, 1) it's cheaper to buy no hotfix stones and 2) it's quicker. of course that's for shoes, but i think it works the same for panties, bras etc 😉
btw, ebay is a good source for rhinestones! i ordered from a store called please come in, and i can't wait for them to arrive so i can bedazzle my shoes!!! but there are a lot of other stores on the internet too, of course.i just found that ebay is way cheaper than buying them in an actual shop!
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first of all, ladies, thank you for helping! what i meant is, that i can not turn the part where the screws are so that the holes come to lie above the flat section, not the grilled section as it is now. i guess i have to find a smith or someone really strong to move these two parts (or one, that is) so that the holes/screws are in the right place again. thank you!
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i guess you meant that the screws should be directly above the flat section, but i can't move them apart!
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i am not sure what you mean – thanks for the fast answer, anyway 🙂
i took a photo of it (without the screws) http://flic.kr/p/bUvSZS
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I can't see what's wrong with her comment on that. Although, of course, I haven't been there, and I did not hear the way she said it. "A bit on the thicker side" does not sound like a bad of harmful comment to me at all. She did not say "your legs are too fat for it", did she! Now THAT would've been unconstructive.
If someone has bow-legs, and finds a trick difficult to do, what is wrong in poiting out that this might be a reason why she can not do it – YET? She may have to find a way to do it that it different from those with straight legs. She may not have thought about her legs being why she can't do that move yet. That's the same for thicker legs, as well as for skinny legs.
Honestly, I've done this move, and I also am "a bit on the thicker side". I know that bigger thighs are exactly why that move is painful for me, and why I can not do it sometimes. So what?! That makes my victory over this move even better, everytime I get it.
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veena, not that it would help anything, but i liked your video. if felt you were taking a neutral position, and helped me understand the pros and cons of both very well. i think you were very objective, and did NOT try to promote either one.
i haven't yet had the chance to dance on a ssa, but i have tried the x-stage light and 2 types of r-pole, which is made in the uk i think. i would always choose an x-pole stage over the other, because it just feels more secure (the r-pole nearly tipped over when i was doing a simple but fast back hook spin, and imagine the cries of my friends when i did a reverse grab on it …it did not tip over, but it was pretty close. not so with the x-pole). and i haven't been paid by any of them either.
keep your head up, veena – you're great!
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thank you so much for inviting me! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_heart1.gif
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hey girls! i just stumbled upon this entry, and well … can anyone invite me, please? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif
i really need some motivation, and this levelling with points-thing sounds interesting!
my email addy is: ingwerkuchen@gmail.com (that means gingercake in german)
thank you so much in advance!!
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thank you, ladies. i'll just have to let them check … everything, i guess.
i loved the brass one so much, because i had such a fantastic grip on it, better than on chrome (don't talk of tg, that one sucks for me, and stainless is not my favourite either ^^). i'd hate it if i could not use it because i was allergic to its coating. BUT if it actually has something to do with grip-stuff, then i'll probably be able to do something about it. can't try a brass one anywhere else than at the studio,though.
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hi guys,
i recently react allergic to x-poles. the first time i reacted allergic was when i trained on a very used tg pole, and i thought it might be just because it is so worn off. but yesterday i trained on a pretty new brass pole, and had the same reactions. i loved it, because i had a wonderful good grip on it, but then i saw my thighs and elbow turning red and in some places, my skin had like very flat bumps … it was all red and hot and a little bit itchy.
then i turned to floor work, and afterwards i noticed even more little bumps, glowing white from the red parts,on the back of my shoulder. that wasn't a point of contact with the pole, but with the floor (i did a lot of shoulderrolls/-stands) … so i thought, maybe it was the stuff they used for cleaning at the studio. but the owner told me, the poles were only cleaned with vodka, not with the stuff used for the floors. and i guess it's almost impossible that my shoulder reacted to grip-powder or stuff that's used on the pole … because, how should that be on the floor!
i will have an allergy-test done soon, but still … i'm worried. i've never reacted to nickle, and i have a lot of cheap earrings. why would i react to a new brass pole the same way as i did to a worn-off tg or chrome-pole? any ideas? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif i mean, i will most probably have to tell the guys at the allergy-centre what they ought to be looking for…
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those pics are SO cool!!
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I have wide toes (only toes… my heels are quite narrow!), and Pleasers fit my in my regular size. (I have to widen the upper part a bit, though, before putting them on. Easy!) A friend of mine, who has the same shoe size, has a pair of Ellies, and she prefers them to Pleasers, as she has narrow toes. I could not get my feet in them! So for me it's Pleasers.
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I like ginger, I like cake – and I like gingercake. How I came to choose this name, I don't know. Probably I was eating some at that time ^^ It is something you don't get often, so it's special. Just like me! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_queen.gif
(Also, my haircolour is red.)
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yay, thank you ladies! okay, so the "serpentine" dvd is on my wishlist for sure. but does anyone around here happen to know east coast tribal by sera solace? she's at world dance NY too.
unfortunately i won't be able to do workshops with any of those big superstars, as i am in austria, and it's most unlikely that they come here to teach me, an (more or less) absolute beginner 😉 but thank you for the recommendations. i will have a look at all of them.
i also searched the internet for teachers in my surroundings, and will probably take some kind of introductory private lessen soon. i guess it would be good to have some kind of one-on-one-training every once in a while, even if i will try to learn mostly with dvds.
thank you again – and please, if someone else has something to say to this topic, don't hesitate to let me or us all know! 🙂
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welcome! 🙂
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I would not use sandpaper,as it does damage to the pole. i like to use itac2 on a new pole, if it is too slippery. and wipe it off with a towel (and perhaps some vodka) every now and then. i personally do not want to use acetone or window cleaner on my pole, because my skin is quite sensitive and i don't want to get allergies from it.
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congrats amy, both look great!
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WOW! It is amazing to see both ways of that trick. Although I think, Alethea's way looksmore dangerous and impressing. Perhaps it is just the way she does it, so fast!! Thanks girls for sharing that!
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thank you for your answer, it seems to have worked!!
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I need to turn my videos 90° to the right, and I can't because WMM does not like Quicktime vids. They make funny jumps, it looks like my video got Parkinson. I just downloaded Pinnacle Video Spin, but I can't rotate my videos with it at all! Help,anyone? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
