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Ly Kieu Le… I want to be you! That sounds like so much fun, and so incredibly awesome that you have the support to go and do that!
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I love the look of heels… I really think a good 7in spike heel makes my butt look smaller. 😉 However, I am a klutz and will not wear shoes on carpet, so I almost never dance in them as I have a carpeted apartment. Which means I get no practice in them. Often when I wear heels, I only do floorwork for that reason. I spend the entire time worrying about falling over. That being said, I think a bare foot can be intensely emotive, and for me, that is completely lost if I put on shoes. I love to dance barefoot, and I do monkeyfoot a lot, so… can't really use shoes for those types of moves. I say both! or whatever you want!
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EnaSee, no problem! I feel like I must have read that somewhere on this forum, but its been so long ago that I dont even know where to find it again.
Also, definitely spring for a different pole if you are planning on throwing spins or inverting. Depending on what you want, X-Pole, Lil Mynx, or Platinum Stages can be solid home poles, and there are some other brands that are permanently mounted that are definitely good as well. Just search the forum for info, there is a lot of information!
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Sometimes, even with a studfinder, finding a joist/beam on a popcorn ceiling can be difficult because the studfinder cannot run along the ceiling texture evenly. What I have found that helps is to get a large piece of cardboard, and have someone hold that flat up against the ceiling, and then run the stud finder over the cardboard. Because it's flat, you can maintain contact with the studfinder, keeping it from freaking out and giving bum readings (also keeps texture out of your eyes). Usually when I do this, I also make sure to calibrate it with cardboard on the wall. Since there is typically little to no texture on the wall, its easy to find studs, even by tapping and then calibrating is easily and quickly done.
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Well here's hoping that it won't be a big deal! fingers crossed!
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I used Chiropractic to ease the pain and get my sacrum realigned (it was rotating), and that was great as far as treatment of symptoms because I could get relief that way. I was only able to control and keep the pain from coming back with physical therapy exercises, which basically amounted to psoas stretching and core conditioning to get my self balanced out.
I would think that the sharp pain might be considered stabbing? If you can, really do try to get it checked out. Because once you know whats wrong you can start rehabbing it.
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Definitely get this checked out! While I am not sure based on location if your issues are similar to mine, I definitely have dealt with some sharp stabbing pains, deep in the hips. For me, it was brought on by marathon training, and was never an issue while I was doing something (ie running, stretching, dancing), only afterwards. I ignored it, and it got so bad that it was affecting my ability to do my job, (I was no longer able to climb a ladder without stabbing pains, and I was a building inspector, so I climbed a lot of ladders), and it took almost a year to rehab it because I didnt get it checked out in the beginning. It still an issue I carry around today (I ran that marathon in 2008), though I can keep the pain under control. It ended up being a SI joint issue. Do not wait on getting it checked out, it will likely only cause more pain and trouble if you do.
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I just had my first experience with a studio peeper last night! It's so… completely unnerving. Especially since the teacher and I were alone at the studio at night. She called the guy out and he moved along, but he could have been standing there peeping through the curtains for the entire time and if we hadnt seen him, he still would have been there when we went to leave around 10 pm. I just don't like feeling that way. I shouldn't have to. If that guy is still around, definitely let the studio owners know.
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I might have to try some sweet vixen couture, or pole skivvies! I have heard great things about both. I have tried Bad Kitty, and they just dont fit quite right. I have a booty, and a small waist, so… lots of things start peeping out when I am poling. I used to always pole in my underwear, never used anything else, until now, when I am starting to go back to class, and have realized that I dont have ANYTHING that provides reliable coverage, except a few swim suit bottoms, but they just look like underwear and no one wears briefcut bottom at the studios I have checked out, so I feel kind of silly looking like I am standing there in my underwear.
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Wouldn’t the arm/leg positions that are off the pole just be variations? You can do Allegra without grabbing that foot. The foot grabbing and position of that arm in relation to the pole are variations. At least, that is how I look at it.
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Yay you got them back! 🙂
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You could set up some chat time with people here, if you see someone's video that is doing the style that you would like to do. Even if its only chat, you can work on working out what it is you want to do and how to find the words, so to speak. I have found that when I am teaching (though its mostly aerial, I am ALWAYS learning from my students, as they are learning from me in class).
Try not to get frustrated! I think everyone who has tried to choreograph for themselves understands just how hard it is to get whats in your head into your body. But I know from experience that is easier said than done. Different dance styles are really kind of a blessing in disguise, though its definitely frustrating in the choreography stage.
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Jallegra is awesome. I too, typically like things to be named what they are. However, sometimes that gets to be a mouthful. So we occasionally assign variations a number. Angel 1, Angel 2, etc. This only works if you take the time to review enough with your students and teachers (and yourself!) what the variation numbers reference. Haha, definitely a case of writing it down, when you are just starting out with a numbering system, so that everyone is using the same numbers. Its kind of problematic though, because there are endless variations. Because if a chopsticks is simply a right side up split hip hold… then I can think of a lot of variations…
With those two pics that you sent, if you flip them over, they are just jade and allegra, right? I think there should be a standard word that works for inverting already inverted position to upright positions. Upright Jade for example, though that particular one is kind of silly and doesnt work quite how I would like it.
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I have had issues with this in the past, it got so I couldnt breathe too deeply while I was sleeping or I would wake up! And it was definitely at a time in my life when I was weightlifitng 4x a week and throwing javelin in college. I rehabbed it with heat prior to weightlifting/training and ice after with lots of anti-inflamatories. Just give it some time and listen to your body! 🙂
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my two cents 🙂
To me, the studios wanting you to claim a studio that you represent for marketing/publicity's sake, are being a bit high handed. If you really have taught and learned multiple places, then you aren't simply a product of their studio. Especially if, for example, you teach in the 'home studio' but learn choreography or big tricks in another place. I totally understand that though, they see something good! To me, it seems like you value your personal pole journey, as it should be, and compromising that may in turn compromise how much you enjoy poling/teaching. I feel in a situation like this, you need to look out for yourself. Sounds like in matters other than publicity, the studios are all good with each other. Which is awesome. That doesn't always happen. I suppose one way of not dealing with representing one studio would be to represent them all? or none? Shrug https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif no idea there. Have never liked the concept of studios taking ownership of students/teachers' talent. Its not like we all started with them when we were 5 and they gave us our entire movement vocabulary. But that is neither here nor there. 🙂
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I love the oatmeal! Absolutely hilarious! Also check out Hyperbole and a Half blog. Its maybe a slightly different type of humor, but I love it.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html
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I am definitely not the go to source on yoga. I imagine that with a continuous practice, Bikram will loosen you up overall. I just didn't like that I didn't work to build the heat myself within my body, felt too easy to potentially overstretch. And I also missed the mind/body connection. I couldnt focus in Bikram really at all, except on how much I didn't like being this sweaty and potentially dehydrated. But these were only my personal experiences.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCj92zA0tU&feature=share&list=PL6F0BDD45E67987C5
I know the music was laid over the video, BUT it fits so well!
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I haven't done a lot of yoga, but I have tried Bikram before. I didnt really like it enough to keep going. But I do remember enjoying the high afterwards. I just couldnt get over the gross floor in the studio that I went to, which I realize has nothing to do with the practice itself, but it was gross! Fuzzy floor that probably soaks up everyones sweat like a sponge. haha. It did loosen me up a ton. However, I have found that I like yoga practices where I build my own heat instead of getting placed in heat, because I see the flexibility gains when I am NOT in the studio. I feel almost like I sweat just as much in the ashtanga classes I have tried. I figure that with a good teacher who knows what they are doing, any yoga practice is going to help out with flexibility/strength goals. So if you don't like one particular method, try others that are available!
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I always end up choosing a handful of songs, all of which I like, and then creating a play list and listening to them. I never usually choose a song from the playlist until I have had a chance to actually dance to it. You don't even need a pole for this. Just put on some music and see how you feel moving to it. Often I find that songs that I really like do not make for great performance music, so I always try to choose something that is interesting to listen to, with many possibilities for 'hits', embellishments, and tempo changes. For example, I tend to like triphop a lot, but there are a lot of great triphop songs that aren't great performance songs, because they tend towards having a lot of uniformity of sound, repeats, very few tempo changes if any, and often are quite long.
My reality is that once I choose music, I stick with it. When practicing, you are going to hear that song a lot and even songs that I have LOVED do not stand up to how much I need to listen to something before I perform to it. However, I know it backwards and forwards and that is main goal. Since this is the first performance of many (if you want it to be) don't worry about the absolutely most perfect song ever choosing you, just find something you like a lot, make the decision, and see where it takes you! Have fun!
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I had definitely wanted to get some feedback on these DVDs, because I thought that the first one looked like so much fun. Are there new moves taught in the second set, or is it only routines built from the moves in the first set?
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I think what immediately rubs me the wrong way with this is that Anderson right away hits on a couple of pet peeves of mine.
First, he mentions that children's fitness pursuits should be leading to sports teams (or they arent really valid, at least, that was the implication I was left with, though I tend to be really sensitive on this issue). I used to coach high school volleyball, and when I saw what parents would force their kids into for a 'scholarship' when the kid didn't have the heart or real talent to play in ANY college, let alone Division 3, it was upsetting, for everyone involved. Not everybody needs to be forced into that mindset. Team sports are not the only way to be fit and active, have discipline, work hard, and succeed.
Second, that at 15 years old, a child will have mastered the basics of pole dancing and all advancement past that occurs only in a strip club. I think both sentiments are incredibly closeminded. In all other forms of dance (ballet, modern, ballroom, hip hop, etc, etc, etc), in yoga, in gymnastics, in circus arts, in capoeira, in martial arts, there is no ceiling to what can be achieved; no dead ends in the art itself. I could go on and on.
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I youtubed it and came up with goldie's clip and another one where Anderson introduces the bit with the studio owner, but from reading the comments, I am pretty sure there is quite a bit more that I didn't see. I am interested in seeing the link… bc I always like seeing other people's arguments. Even when they are ad hominem, illogical, etc, gives me more bulletproof counterarguments, should I ever need them. 😉 What I always struggle with in these cases is just understanding how hard it is for people to think outside the box. How can it possibly be that hard?!
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Haha, I am not exactly sure… I am so bad about communicating. Initially when I started, I didn't tell family, only my sister knew because she was taking classes with me. I come from a big Catholic family (I have four brothers!) and I never wanted to tell anyone, especially bc when I started I had no idea that I would like it as much as I ended up doing. At that point, definitely felt like I should have said something because it started to feel like because I had never told them, that it was a much much bigger deal than it was, and maybe even something I might be ashamed of since I had been hiding it. Which wasn't the case at all, but my typical non-confrontational policy is avoidance.
However, when I was living in Hawaii, I got into the aerial scene. I started as a practice partner, and all of a sudden, I was getting to perform with company members, I started to assist in teaching, I started to get to teach my own basics classes, I went from performing as a student to performing solo as a company member, and eventually, an original cast member/collaborator for a couple of different aerial burlesque shows. My mom had always known about the aerial, and she constantly bugged me for pictures, and video, etc. (My parents have always been really active in our lives, etc, and she had always come to all my sporting events, piano events, 4-H events :D, and to her this was no different). Because we had a DVD made from the first aerial burlesque show, she did get to see me perform in a way. She liked it so much she flew to Hawaii for the second aerial burlesque show. I never told her that I had a pole solo in it. So she got to watch me on pole, trapeze, and chair. And she loved it! However pole was lumped in all together, so I dont know if she feels differently about it than she does trapeze. I was so nervous for it, but I think to be hit with it as a part of a show, a performance art in a direction that is not typically stripping, allowed her to not even think about that particular aspect. She saw it as dance.
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Awesome Lyme! let me know what you think… I am starting to look around for a studio and pole partners, etc!
