ennifer2277
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I've done two performances for my boyfriend, one in person (an no pole, just floor stuff) and the next one, since I've been abroad, over skype. I felt like my confidence was definitely better the second time since I could imagine myself not being looked at by a camera, but for the first dance I did for him I was very nervous!
What helped me is my friend, who's a stripper (and even if she's not, she's very confident! lol) showed me only a few things…the rest was really what I knew. But having her there to help me do a very "rough" coreographing helped my confidence sooooo much! Also, having her watch it about 10 times helped as well. Even still, when I did it for my boyfriend and made some terrible embarassing mistakes (one of which involved me hitting my head hard on the floor on accident), I realized he didn't care! He loved it, and when I screwed up, he actually just saw the quirkier side of me and found it attractive, he said later. So relax, if you have a friend that could even just watch a rough draft of it, it'll help a ton, and don't worry if you make mistakes! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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I'd love an introductory on how to practice moves (even basic) on a spinning pole. I have an X-Pert pole and use the spin occasionally, but have no clue what I'm doing! I'd love to learn tricks on how to keep momentum going, tips that will make moves look fluent and ideas for combos on a spinny-mode pole. But just basics would be wonderful!
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Yes, it does go away 🙂 I started poling last year, and I remember how painful any type of pole sit or crucifix and climb was. Now, I don't feel pain at all, except when I try completely new moves, such as superman, where the pole is tugging my skin a completely new direction. Reminds you how far you've come after you feel that pain again. Keep on working at it, and you'll feel the pain go away over time https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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I agree with a few people on this forum. It's really a shame that, to get accepted to the general public, we are almost forced to disassociate stripping and pole dancing, almost shaming people who strip. I have a friend who strips, and I don't think there should be shame in it. Although, I've told my parents about pole dancing, and showed them a few things, and they are very supportive of it, but I feel I'm stepping on some odd territory if I were to put anything about poling on my facebook or telling my 2 grandmas (which has been proved difficult). It's a shame, because I am very proud of what I do with poling, and it's a big part of my life. I'm sure many of us polers feel the same way, and I hope after more of these great pole performers get coverage on tv, it will one day be much more accepted.
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@Cinara: I think it was the thing about concentrating less. I focus so much on that move when I've tried it in the past that I think I've been psyching myself out with the pain in the lower leg. I think I just happened to hold it on the very perfect spot on my lower leg and after not thinking to hard, it just happened. I only hope I can do it again today haha and get it on the other side as well!
I'm doing much better on twisted grip as well (about halfway to getting it, but surely progressing) because I just move into it without concentrating too much. I feel like once you get to a certain point after practicing a move, the muscle memory works well and you can relax and go into the move easier. But I definitely didn't think I'd get knee hold ever!
I will be posting pics later today or tomorrow morning 🙂
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I've had and currently have annoyence towards this same thing. Tried many ways of thinking about it, and looked at a lot of forums for helping me. I acutally got this move a few weeks ago after taking what I thought was the most effective route for building the right muscles/muscle memory up: Do the invert into the V and hold it, every time you practice. Soon the correct muscles will build up. Once you get there, try slooowly tilting out of inverted V as controlled as possible. When you do this every singe time you do a trick-practice it really really builds those muscles correctly, and after you get that control, going into the move from standing on the floor just naturally gets easier. I had this move (finally after about 6 months) but lost it after not practicing for 2 weeks 🙁 But I'm sure it will come back with more practice and patience. Good luck 🙂
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I agree with getting a deep tissue massage for it. I once fell on black ice onto my lower back, and it seemed to freeze up all the muscles in my back and shoulders. I would get the same type of shooting, electric-like pain in several areas on my arms/shoulders/back, and the deep tissue massages were painful but they helped tremendously!
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I fell quite a few times in a haha not-at-all injured way, and once in a very painful way. Lesson I learned was to be tought stuff properly on a stable, non-slippery pole. Story was, it was after three months of pole dancing through a pole dance school I went to, the instructer in class mentioned in three weeks we'd start inverting. I was really excited to invert, and my friend and I got a very cheap, horrible pole from spencers (the kind that isn't sticky at all, collapses when you pull it to the left, and bearly stayed up sometimes). I watched videos on youtube of people inverting on the pole, and a few not so great instructional videos on how to invert, and tried it out. Well, I really should've waited, because I inverted, but I didn't know how to get down and I ended up falling hard on one of my legs and it popped my knee somehow. Ended up wearing a knee brace for 2 weeks and taking off pole class til we inverted, where I learned how to do it properly.
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I completely agree with solsticedark, and others who said they're learning the pole and not already over-the-top fabulous, and that they did kinda miss the judge's point and went way to far trying to avoid being sexy.
As far as groups who should be on shows like this, I know they're not from America, so obviously they couldn't be on this show, but has anyone checked out the Girlfriend Pure Pole Angels? They are definitely more towards the sensual side of pole, but at least they have more energy on stage and do pretty amazing tricks. I think a bigger group like them with more tight coreography should be on a show like ABDC. Here's the link to one of their performances: http://youtu.be/z_eDZGn6bxE
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lol sorry! my last post's link has a period at the end and doesn't work, here it is again:
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@ EVamp83:
I live in France atm and I watch a bunch of american tv on watchseries.eu , and I checked, and this show is here http://watchseries.eu/serie/americas_best_dance_crew . One thing that's good to know is zshare, loombo, frogmovz, and karambavidz are unlimited timing, but megavideo and vidobb and some others are. if one doesn't work, another link usually will.
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I'm an Xpole owner of the Xpert and love it but am pretty tiny. I taught someone a bunch of spins on it who was a good 180lbs, and honestly, it made me very nervous since the pole flexed a LOT. Everything gripped well and the base and top didn't budge, but then again we have very rough ceiling for it to grip with and also carpet on the floors. Don't know if all poles do this and maybe it's no biggy, but I know for sure I've never seen a pole bend so much in the middle from simple spins!
Jen
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OH and by the way LoneStarDiva, I looked at your before/after photos! Congradulations on the increadible accomplishment! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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thank you again, ladies 🙂
LoneStarDiva, I do weight myself after using the bathroom everymorning…think I found that piece of info in Runners World magazine one day and it stuck with…I can tell that it's more of a stable measurement.
As far as those suggesting the Paleo diet (never heard of it until now…have to read up a little more w/ the links later tonight when I'm done with my run/pole workout!), I have a few concerns…see, I have pretty low blood pressure in general, and after I exercise if I don't have quite a bit of salt (usually I much on three servings of pretzels or some kind of a boxed soup with tons of sodium), my blood pressure drops so rapidly that I get a migrane that doesn't go away until the next day, as well as feeling weak and dehydrated (although I assure you I have more than enough water, and too much water during a workout was actually making this problem worse at one point). Is there enough sodium built into the paleo diet? Also, does the protein take the place of carbs completely? Because I eat much more of the complex carbs when I get to mile 5 in training, and without them I don't have enough sustainable energy. And call me weird, but I have terrible dreams if I eat a little extra protein before bed. Do you eat less protein at night or more? I will obviously read up on it more, as I'm always interested in trying something that may work as a lifestyle, but I'd just be afraid of these few concerns.
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First of all, thank you for so much, everyone, for your comments! They are super helpful, and I will definitely use them!
For me, I have been loosly tied to the scale. Since I've trained for a marathon before, I know that there's a point where everything either goes up in weight or plateaus due to muscle gain, and I LOVE that period of time. My gage for myself is general weight (i'm writing down my weight each week to see general trends, but checking each day just for curiousity's sake), along with how good I feel, the health of my skin (it changes dramatically when i'm healthier) and how my clothes are fitting.
I am worried right now because I recently got very sick due to not paying attention to what I'm eating. It might also have happened because I was vegetarian for 6 years and took B vitamin supplements during that period of time, and have just recently switched over to eating meat again (my reasons for being a vegetarian were not usual, it was because i had a month long terrible experience in a study abroad program when I was younger, and have been able to finally break past it for some foods). I don't eat fish, chicken, bacon, or any out-there meats. But I have been snacking a TON on ham, so I'm sure that threw everything out of whack in my system in the past month.
I'm just so frustrated because for those 7 months, a few years ago, I had training with a personal trainer for that marathon, and I naturally ate super healthy things. Because I loved running so much and always got up at 5am to go do cross training, I would eat almost no processed foods, no sweets, and I was eating a plethora of hearty wheat items and fresh fruits and vegetables. I was so proud of my body and for one time in my life I never thought twice about having greesy things once in a while because I was so committed, it didn't phase me the following day. And I really believe I can get back into that zone…I'm just having a hell of a time attempting to get there, and once I'm there, maintaining it.
The reason that healthy system got knocked out of whack was some family deaths and pressures of starting college, family job loss, and holding quite a few jobs myself (oh and the marathon I trained for filled up right as I went to sign up, so I ended up not doing it, which is why I'm doing it this year finally!). I've learned that terrible things in life are unavoidable, and I allow myself to be more relaxed with what I eat when things like this happen, but I never know how to turn it off anymore and get back to healthy balanced food/exercise life. Do you guys have any ways of coping with just tons of stress, or just picking those healthy habits back up after a long break? I feel like I fell of a great, healthy lifestyle and woke up two years later to find my body and my eating completely flipped. Very frustrating!
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dustbunny,
that's a great idea! see, I tried writing down what i ate at one point, but it just made me fore discouraged to stay on a healthy eating plan once i had a bad day at it. The pre-planning will help so much with what grocieries I buy, and might even prevent me from wasting any produce that doesn't get eaten, since I tend to buy too much at a time, and then none the next grociery visit. I'm going to try the general planning thing out in the next few weeks, and plan my "no restrictions" day…that definitely should help!
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Thank you for the tips…I know one of the hardest things for me is to get solid sleep while I'm here, so that's probably contributing to some of my moodiness. Back home I have a very comfortable bed, but the program I'm studying through has given us these super uncomfortable hard matresses, so I rarely get a night's sleep without waking up with one of my limbs alseep or my back in tremendous pain. I'm sure that will get better when I get back home, though.
Also, that's a great idea to pick a day where i'm able to not think so much about what i'm eating. I think that'll help. Thank you!
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I wanted to say thank you to both polegirl and studio veena! I'm progressively getting better at the move with both of your tips, and have been able to go into an invert successfully with the basic hold w/ both my hands cupping the pole instead of the hold I was working with before. Thank you very much!
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I just started my membership literally days ago, so I actually didn't get to watching the shoulder mount video in full yet, but i will tonight, thank you!
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Thank you so much! I'll work on it for the next week and post my progress afterwards. I just never had a way to do exercises strictly for this, so the dead lift and the knees to chest should help a lot.
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twistedmoon: the bakeries here in Paris are great, but some arn’t as good as others. Most are absolutely wonderful, but once in a while I buy a so-so baguette or pastry. As far as the open pole, that’s regular age rule (18 and up), but I was just talking about the 21 and over for the events at the bars. I’ve never been to an open pole event, but I heard they’re great.
Andrea: I would also like to know if there’s any way to just try out the poles/studio at Blush. It’s closer to Milwaukee, but it is more expensive than Miss Pole. Do people have to start at the first pole level if they’ve already completed turns and a bunch of inversions at a different studio? Thank you!
Flexx10: I agree, the thing I enjoy about Miss Pole (at the old studio at least, since I haven’t been to the new one) was that there were 6 poles, and usually an instructor and an instructor in training. The instructors also seem to be extremely careful with the pace of the students, because of the safety factor. Also, when I have specific questions about why a move doesn’t seem to really lock in, the instructor is usually great at figuring out what I’m doing wrong, and spotting me when I’m trying something new.
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I love misspole, but unfortunately, left right as everyone in my class (at the time, Pole 3) was training to teach there. I’m excited about going through the new curriculum though, and seeing the new studio.
I’m in Paris, France right now, studying music. My friend is going to ireland for the Spring semester and I think I’m going to visit her, since I’ve always wanted to go there.
I ended up renting an apartment, so I just brought my xpole with me to Paris (which is worth it, but was a pain to transport out here). I’ve never done open pole night or the pole nights at any of the bars yet, since I just turned 21, but I’d love to see you there when I return in June!
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I am also from WI. I grew up in Oconomowoc (about a 45 min drive west of Milwaukee), and ended up moving to Milwaukee for school. I take classes (and hope to someday teach) at Miss Pole in Brookfield. I’m studying abroad for the year, but in June, will be taking classes at Miss Pole again w/ their newer curriculum.
