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I have like a hundred jobs 🙂 I'm a makeup artist so in the summer i do tons of weddings, I also have a waitressing job that is really flexible with scheduling. I only started teaching a month ago, right now I teach 2-4 classes per week. However my studio is 40 mins away so I try to teach 2 classes back to back if I can. I just started teaching and am now starting a new waitressing job so I am currently trying to work out a schedule so my own practices aren't being neglected like they have been the past month. I teach privates as well, usually after my class or on a day off. I also have my own hair accessory and jewelry line 🙂
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I just did a regional comp and I got third so I think some of my methods must have worked! I’ll email you later today 🙂
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I think you can tailor the lessons to your personal needs so you can start where you are at personally. So if you've never done pole I think starting with the strength training moves and basic spins and transitions are good, and move up. If you have experience then I think you can look at the moves in the section for your level and decide which ones are achievable for you. I love that the lessons are structured so anyone can start them at any time!
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Mine is posted, I did Ghostbusters!!!! Live performace too 🙂
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Oh and chem I checked my bottle and it says 2 pills is 2000mg and take 2 pills once or twice daily does that mean it has enough CLA?
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Thanks for the responses girls! JBS, like I said in my post I’m not really looking to lose weight really I just want to tone up/be less jiggly , but those supplements are good too. Thanks for everyones input let me know how it goes Paulette 🙂
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I stupidly always assumed that if you could do the splits you could do a jade! Now I have a new respect for those girls who can because I am stretching and my foot is over halfway there but has a ways to go to get to my head when I'm laying on my back. My splits are about 2 inches off the ground still, I feel like I will never get either one 🙁
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It's been really fun blogging so far!!!! I hope everyone is getting something out of my blogs, and feedback is always welcome. Video tutorials will be coming soon too https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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I went to some thrift stores today and they had a lot of cool things to make costumes with for dirt cheap too 🙂 This one should be fun I"m excited!
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I think I read somewhere she has taken classes before so it's funny she's doing it on the show now!
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Charley I thought you did amazing and I'm glad you took my advice to heart so much! I was just thinking about how all the girls in our competition did well and I think that goes for all pole competitions. I can honestly say I have never seen a "bad" competition performance. Yes they may not be one of the winners but I am starting to figure out different competitions look for different things and a winning routine in one competition might not even place in another.
The whole competition experience for me gave me a newfound respect for the girls who do it all the time because it's really hard to put yourself out there and be compared to other people even though at the end of the day I think everyone in a competition was picked for a reason. Since people were paying a decent amount of money to see the competition I was in, I really wanted to give them a good show and I think as a group we put on a great show for everyone. I was somehow able to keep myself from being nervous by thinking about it that way too, so I think bottom line is know your routine, try to do the best you personally can, and have fun! it's okay if you don't have the hardest tricks of the day but if you have a trick you are already good at the best you have ever done it in the competition then to me that is just as good as winning. I was missing tricks in my routine up to a few days before my performance but the actual performance went really smoothly minus a few hiccups which is to be expected in a competition situation. OK I will stop acting like the competition expert now after doing my whopping one competition https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gifbut it was a huge learning experience for me so I just thought I'd share.
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Ok I have only competed once so I am no expert but I will tell you what I can that might help you –
Everyone is right about the clean tricks over the advanced ones. There were A LOT of moves I wanted to put into my competition routine when I was choreographing it in my head but then I realized I didn't really have time to learn much less polish brand new moves. The category I was in didn't allow any inverted moves so that was challenging as well. I ended up having a fairly simple routine and afterward the judges told me that if my routine was a little more advanced I would have won the whole damn thing!!! That was kind of a slap myself in the forehead moment because I stuck with keeping it simple and placed third. Now I know this if I choose to compete again, but if my routine was more advanced maybe I would have sucked in the execution and not placed at all, I will never know but I am happy with the outcome because my goal was to just perform my routine the best I could and the minute I stepped off stage I felt like I nailed 90% of it so I was happy and placing third was just an unexpected bonus. But also I love playing with the audience and having a really entertaining routine, I don't know if I would have been as engaging with the audience if I was worried about nailing harder tricks. My biggest strength in pole is my audience interaction and not my tricks at all (kind of sad if you think about it LOL) so I do routines that showcase me as a performer, not so much my tricks because I know I can engage the audience well so I use that as a cornerstone of my routines. Pick what your strengths are and focus on those, I have heard tons of people say they'd rather see a simple move done perfectly than a harder move done half assed. Hopefully this helps!
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Omg I’m stupid and thought you were asking about cartwheel I’m sorry! That goes to show I shouldn’t respond to threads after 2 glasses of wine!
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Another common problem people have that I was also having is not putting their bottom hand low enough, it has to be way low down toward the ground. Look at your hand placement after you take a video because for me personally I had no idea how high my hand was until I saw it on video and then got closer to getting it once I started putting my hand lower down. I'm still polishing mine up and it needs a lot of work before I could do it in a performance but I finally can get it after struggling with it for about six months https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_rambo.gif so don't feel too discouraged especially if you got it once already, it's one of those "a-ha!" type moves in my opinion.
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I have my song too! And I'm gonna wear shiny pants!!!!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
