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Thank you! 🙂
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I am corbyOconnor, just the same as here!
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For me, I like to be complimented if something I do truly is awesome. I don't like to be fawned over, I don't like to be told something is good when it isn't, and I don't appreciate when I feel like people are only saying something to cheer me up instead of their comments reflecting reality. I can't take it seriously if I don't feel the compliment is genuine or I haven't deserved it.
That said, based on some recent dance class experience, I would say that working hard to gain the approval of a difficult, nit-picking teacher is a huge rush for me. I want to know I earned it, and once I have, I know that its just one step of many ahead. It doesn't end there. I am not perfect, but I am working for it.
One thing I have noticed… people with classical dance training seem to be some of the most honest and brutally straightforward teachers. But I know a lot of people who don't want that honesty, who feel it's too negative, and take it personally when the teacher never meant it personally. I think it's seen as negative criticism, when it's not meant that way. It's not a take down, but an honest reaction from a teacher about what a dancer is doing, relative to what they should be doing in a technical sense. It's not personal if you didn't point your toe that time, it's technical. But I know the delivery method sometimes can feel harsh if a person is not used to it.
I think we all dance for different reasons, and often those reason dictate our preferred approach.
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I like the PS one piece poles a lot. That is actually my favorite pole out of the choices of Xpole, PS, and LM. The spin option is fantastic! I, too, would probably remove the adjuster cover. I don't like that the pole adjusts from the bottom and has that cover. But to each their own! Plus I think it can be converted to adjusting at the top anyways.
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Poledello is in Tacoma. They have 16 foot poles in that studio! Also aerial classes. She teaches silks and ring.
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She only does private and semi-private classes. Best way to figure out scheduling is to contact her. It’s pretty flexible. I do semi-privates and occasionally privates depending on my schedule which is insane at the moment.
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Its the same teacher as yoga fusion. Rope is a lot of fun. I also used to do more silks and trapeze prior to starting rope, but there are a lot of skills that translate from rope to silks and back again. I am currently traveling too much to be consistent with it, but rope will make you really strong. It's great cross-training.
Yes, I, too, was relieved to find some pole studios on the Kitsap Peninsula. No matter how easy and awesome the ferry is, it's still an hour from Bremerton to Seattle, and even further beyond that to get to any of the Seattle studios, because none of them are close to the ferry terminal. You either have to bus it, which makes the trip that much longer, or pay more to ferry your car.
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Hey! I am in Silverdale! Would you be interested in rope classes? Gig Harbor Aerial Fitness isn't too far if you have a car. I go there. I also have tried Envy-Fit in Bremerton for pole, and Dolphin Dance Exotic in Port Orchard. Both of those studios have brand new spaces! Envy-Fit's hasnt opened yet, but it looks like it will be cool!
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haha, my inner. I meant, inner knee.
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Counts can be tough for sure. Especially if you don't like thinking about music that way. I come from a classical piano background though, and for me, counts are everything, because music is fairly mathematical. The counts are as important as the notes. However, for me, that doesn't make it robotic. Classical music can be SO expressive (any pretty much any kind of music). Me dancing to it, is another thing though. 😉 If I am performing, I choreograph to counts, whether I am performing solo or group setting, and in those cases, like Mariyabe I do it over and over. The counts become instinct because they are dictated by the music. My best video ever, an audition video, comes from a counted out sequence. But mostly I just freestyle when I dance. Almost all of my youtube videos are freestyled. I do like the freedom of testing out music. But I can see where you would get all kinds at a studio. For some people, counting is the basic structure from which to build and that would find other things confusing.
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Yes I definitely notice that there is quite a bit of contact between my inner and the pole. Getting that right seems to be the key for me.
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I thought I was doing pretty well myself! Haha, maybe that's why it bugged me so much.
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I have definitely felt that. I used to go to a chiropractor to get ART (active release technique) done. Basically exactly what you described. It is a soft tissue manipulation (basically intense massage) that gets into the muscles, releases the tensions, and breaks up adhesions. While I loved it, because I love incredibly painful massage and the end result was so amazing to feel, it's a very passive technique overall. The massage fixes the muscle adhesions after they happen, but doesn't necessarily remove the source of the adhesions. Which means if they are due to the way you use your muscles or train your body (constant repetitive use, movement patterns, etc), they will keep coming back if you don't make changes. I don't think it's bad to get the body work done, but know that it's usually not a permanent solution in itself. I just know that every time I went in to get the work done, it was always working on the same things. Nothing ever went away long-term.
Now, if the work is done on scar tissue caused by something (a tear, etc) where the cause of the adhesion is no longer present in your body, I would expect the results from that bodywork to last much longer.
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I had a similar experience recently in a gymnastics class that I go to. It's a mixed levels adult class, so there is everything from cheer girls, to acro, to absolutely no experience (myself), to former competitive gymnasts, and a ton of guys there for parkour. To start class, we all warm up together and go through tumbling passes. I have no tumbling skills beyond dive rolls, cartwheels, and roundoffs. A large portion of the class is much more advanced in tumbling than I am. So when we get to the more advanced tumbling passes, I continue working on cartwheels, front limbers, roundoffs, etc. In the last class I attended, someone made fun of me for continuing with cartwheels, in a very catty snobby voice, to another member of the class (who didn't respond) directly in front of me as I finished my cartwheel pass. This kind of floored me. I haven't been a class that wasn't supportive and positive, with constructive critique in a long time. Granted, I don't think the teacher would have been ok with that had he heard it. But water off a ducks back though, because no point in propagating that kind of negativity. It did bother me that it bugged me so much though. I don't want to care that much about negative people's opinion on things of such small importance.
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That's the one I was thinking of! Sigh. I watch too many tutorial videos on youtube to keep them all straight. That and my brain is just generally completely shot.