amelia2000
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Can you send the pole back? It would be better to pay the 200-300$ for an xpole or lil mynx or lupit, those are professional brands whose poles are safe for tricks.
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Yeah I get that, but if you put the flying pole up without a swivel, it won’t spin round as such (maybe half a turn in each direction), but the bottom isn’t attached and can move- does this make static spins impossible? Or just tricky?
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Pilates/body weight type exercises!
For example, some of Veena’s strength routines are only 10 mins long, try those out?Or play around with different exercises, and rep depending on how much time you have (or circuit training style and do 30-60secs per exercise). Anything involving planks is fantastic, because everything you need for pole is in there, arms, stomach, back, legs (particularly leg/arm raise variants). Obvs warm up a bit first, at least mobilise the key areas.
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maybe I should try Lupit Grip then… I had seen it but wasn’t quite sure what it was hehe. Definitely looks like a nifty little product 😛
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Maybe 4 times a week is putting too much pressure on yourself? Leg training like lunges (ideally variants where you hold for longer, like with an upper body twist, or make it harder by putting back leg on a yoga block), squats, abduction training with resistance bands should help too because you also need strength to be flexible.
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Thanks guys…next session will have to have a floorwork focus then!
I get lazy practising floorwork partly because my ceiling seems instable so I train on an Xstage, so I only have a metre around the pole, and it’s cold metal. Probably will have to find a non slip solution for that, but removable/strong enough to withstand heel use. Also every time I try floorwork it looks anything but graceful/sexy.
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You can look in the underwear department for pole bottoms- I found some lovely velvet knickers with an elastic waistband a few weeks ago, which became my faourite pole pants =D there was a matching bralette as well and I have some other knickers that I used to use, hotpant style knickers. I also used to use a pair of my husband’s boxers which he didn’t wear because they were to tight on him lol
Other than that I wear swimwear and/or sports bras.
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If it’s just your knees you have a problem with, you could try knee pads.
I bought the ones from mighty grip years ago as extry support because I sprained my knee a few times. I never use them now, as my knees always sweat under them, and I personally always found them annoying (the tightness as opposed to bare skin, and I have an xstage, so its not like the pads are useful in floorwork, because floor work in a tight apartment with a stage is tricky). Poledancerka have different coloured kneepads, I saw online but have never tried them,.
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Welsh but living in Germany
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I tried my pole in a space 2m (roughly 6 ft 8″ I reckon). Theoretically the height was ok, except that on one side the ceiling sloped down, so I hit my head a few times… and climbing from kneeling was hard, because the little screws on my Xpert scratched my feet… and on spinning it spun too fast for me hehe, plus as mine is a chrome pole, every inch counted (i.e. CKR into bow and arrow into handstand was impossible, even just CKR into a handstand was hard, because all of a sudden, I was too low for the hands).
We took it down and got an Xstage (we couldn’t find any joists when we knocked the ceiling- it’s a top floor flat, and the expert had been in a corner underneath a low beam- the rest of the flat, the ceilings are 2.6m). I love my XStage, and I love wearing heels (unfortunately, everytime my daughter is around when I put my heels on, she decides it’s time to come and catch the heels- little pole dancer in the making), which I couldn’t in the 2m space, because it was so short, I reached the top with my hand even without heels hehe
Depending how high your ceilings are you might need an extension- for my 2m ceiling, I needed a 75cm “extension”, because Xpole is usually meant for higher ceilings than mine lol
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Walking or running is good even when it’s a bit cold (where I’m from the worst is -5, your winters are probs worse!), because you can combine it with strengthening exercises while you go: walking lunges, press-ups/plank variations/dips on park benches, stepping/jumping exercises on steps…
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Thanks…I still want to try them but it’s annoying paying for postage just for an item which may or may not work 🙁
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Hoping my next pole can be powder coated…just got a chrome one, so I hardly ever work on spins, my hand grip is too weak on it…
Shaving foam might also be worth a try, never found it helps me but some people swear by it.
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Wow that’s a wide variety of poles to have at home- jealous!
Personally I have problems to start with in a session if my skin isn’t warm and sticky enough- so I make sure to do some strengthening exercises on the floor (sometimes just 1min plank, 1min each of side plank). I rarely feel I need it on my legs now, but I sometimes used to use hair spray, have you tried that?
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Thanks, you’ve given me something to think about, hadn’t considered the platform an important factor…
Anyway, I bought 7inch heels, but haven’t been able to try them out as much as I want to- quite often, as soon as the heels come on, my 11month old daughter crawls over to try and play with them while they are on my feet 😛 and next time I have money to burn will try out 8inch heels 😀
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It’s safe to use a shorter pole extension, but why would you want to if you can use the other room?
I had my xpert up for about 4 months under a ceiling which was 2m. Hated it. Tbf the ceiling was also sloped so I had to be careful on spinning not to hit my head. I felt like I couldn’t do loads of moves because of the height, and the screws at the bottom scratched my feet if I climbed from a kneeling position. Particularly as the xpert can spin quite fast, I personally need to be able to climb a bit to lose the spin before doing moves (and I love climbing).
