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I am thinking about ordering a Meluna Cup. They got better critics than DivaCup in most forums I read. It is a product from Germany, and it comes in classic and soft, and in 3 sizes! Has anyone of you heard about it?? http://meluna.eu/?___store=english&___from_store=deutsch

I will tell you what I think about ti when I've tried it 🙂

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another great suggestion, thanks a lot charley.

now that i know – or have an idea, at least – of how to get into it, i'm wondering how to get out of it in an elegant way. any suggestions on that? ^^

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you're right, shw must have gotten into the position via scorpio! didn't think of that 😀 thanks a lot!

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Thank you Amy! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_heart1.gif

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Someone please help me!

I purchased Brook Notary's workshop (fri, 10-11:30) – so far so good. But in the confirmation email, at the very end, it says "All workshops held at: NY Pole Dancing
215 W. 84th St #806"

I thought NY Poledancing was situated at 333 West, 52nd Street, Suite 806! I don't understand this, please, please help me! Many thanks in advance

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I agree with Kobajo. If you learn on a 50mm pole, you'll be able to perform on 45mm or 38mm pole easily, because tightening your grip is always easier than loosening it for a bigger pole. I also prefer it for leg hangs and things like the Teddy! If you can do it on the 50, you can do it anywhere. But if you do it on a 45 only, it will be hard to change to a 50mm if you should ever want to do that. This is why I bought a 50mm – I want to be able to pole on every pole that's out there, if I feel the need to it https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif

(Did this sound weird? I guess … hahaha)

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I'll be at Marlo's and Kyra's classes on Saturday morning! Yay!

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I hope you didn't give my tickets away 😉

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I just wanted to say, I like it very much that in my studio there are always 2 girls per pole. This way, poles stay warm, and you get a little rest between trying to get a move done. Also, you can help each other, with spotting and holding the other girl. An instructor has to keep her eyes open, but seriously, she can't watch everybody all the time, having only 2 eyes https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

Weekend workshops with the stars are great, if you can get them to come!

I personally like the 6 week programme. The instructors can get to know their students better if they come every week, and thus knoe their problems and strength better.

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I totally agree with you, Cali. Their show was neither very "pole" nor very good. I don't know why their routine was so … well, let's just say it, lame, they could have done better. It wasn't a good picture of pole dance either. Well, they're dismissed anyway, aren't they?

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hi selene, i use my normal photocamera for the videos. it is by olympus, and it does the job quite well 🙂

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Thank you very much! I am from Austria, Europe, so the only chance for me is to get them online. Ordering them online from the US would be at least as expensive as buying them there rightaway, I guess. I'll have a look at these shops if I can make it there 🙂

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What I like about the Xpole is, that they don't come in one piece. You can always order extensions to make it fit in a new home (with lil mynx and pussycat you'd have to order a new pole if the new room is higher or lower than the one you'd originally bought it for), and if you take it down, the pieces are no longer than 1m. This means, you can store it under the bed easily!

Another big plus of Xpoles is, that you don't need to fix it to floor and/or ceiling, and that the upper piece (as well as the lower, of course) is big enough so it can't slip and crash down. The "foot" and "head" of the other poles seem less trustworthy to me. I ordered the Xpole Xpert with an even bigger upper dome, to have the least risk of my pole crashing down. (You've probably seen the pole fail videos on youtube…)

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thank you, i'll definitely be watching this next week!

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Runemist, do you think it would help if I sent you one of my choreographies?  It might be a bit hard to understand, because you might not know what I mean with some of the names (e.g., you don't have a "backbend" here on SV, do you?) – but if you like, just send me your emailaddress and I'll send it to you https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

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I really don't know much about electronic music, but I know that I always find it hard to remember what to do when in a choreography when there are no significant changes in the sound.

I', mot sure what you mean with "counting" spins or finding places for them. When I dance there always are spins in the routine … I love spins! I usually combine them with dancemoves, or use them for getting down to the floor (sometimes up again, hehe).

As for the clims to get into tricks from a higher position – you can do an extra slow climb, or a spinning climb (grab with your hands up and sideways on the pole so you twist around it while climbing), or climb with extra attention on the booty (stick it out more than usual). If you let it look like it's actually part of the choreography and not just getting from here to there, it'll be fine.

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most girls here in my town want to do ballet additionally to their pole training – it sure is good for the splits https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif – but somehow, i am not very much interested in it. i once did belly dancing, which i feel helps me a lot now. i learned much about smoothness and moving body parts seperately (upper and lower), and i learned to do the bodywaves then https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif

what i would chose from your list today, but that's for me only, of course, is modern dance. you'll do a lot of floorwork there, and getting up and down – which will probably be good for transitions. i tried it once and would have loved to continue, but the teacher was too confused for me, so i stopped going to the classes and haven't done anything like this since then (could start anew, hum …)

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wow, you definitely have to post a video here, too!

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one month will be more than enough, i'm sure. there is also a point where you cross the line between well-rehearsed and over-rehearsed – when you hate the song and want to start a whole new routine because you're so bored and everything about it gets on your nerves really bad. just leave the whole thing for a few days then! let it rest, and the joy about it will come back. but don't worry, everything will be fine!

a good idea would be to do it in front of an audience (friends, family, pole colleagues) before you go to the competition. this will reduce your nervousness at the competition most probably. also, you can work on another quite important thing, for which you need someone to spot you: stage presence. don't get lost in yourself, don't let them know you have the jitters. i wish you all the best, have fun, enjoy yourself and rock that pole!

please let me know if anything i told you worked, how you did and felt during the competition!

 

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p.s.: i think you should have completed the routine at least one week before the competition. you'll have plenty of time to rehearse the choreography on and off the pole (in your mind – in the car, on the bus, while cooking, or whatever – anywhere you can listen to the song would be good) then, and don't need to panic because you run out of time! hope this helps https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif

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for me, finding a song that actually makes me dance, and thus makes choreographing easy, is the biggest step. i usually skip through my playlist to find a song worth the effort, and when i have found it, i like to go to the pole and try things out while listening. i always write down what i have, with the lyrics on the left and the moves i want to do with them on the right. like this, i am able to repeat the choreography some months from now; it doesn't get 'lost'!

i also make a list of moves i really want to put into that choreography. sometimes there are parts of a song that really crave for a certain move! that's always great. then i only have to figure out, how to get into and out of that move https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

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hi veeners,

you could try this page http://www.paulsadowski.com/BirthData.asp

or this http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/

 

have fun finding "your" song! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cool.gif

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a song in a language you don't know (perhaps of a country you would like to travel to), trying to interprete the meaning – having absolutely no clue what it's about 😉

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haha, too bad, we could share a room https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

yeah, my common sense is quite distinct (hope I'm using the right word there ^^)

I've never travelled all alone before, mostly with my mum or a friend; Paris, London and Istanbul are the biggest cities I've been to so far.

But I'd SO kick myself if I went so far only to be kidnapped or something, because someone thought "ah, look at this nice little girl so far away from home" … aaah, I just don't know 🙂

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hi lucifairy, can you tell us a bit more precisely where the pain is? my forarms hurt sometimes, especially the right, on the outer side (along the line of the ulna). this may be an overstrain of the muscles on this side, caused by the split grip (carousel etc), as the right  arm is my lower arm in the split grip.