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Vortex–it looks so easy but…
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Pegasus?
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Ditto the butterfly to jade. Someone just tried to teach me this and I get totally lost on what order to do things and slide off.
And ditto seahorse–I’ve been working on that for many weeks with no success.
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Lucca, that’s awesome. I know you’ll do great!
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Those shoes are gorgeous!
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Thank you to all for your advice. The masters competition just didn’t seem very high pressure to me (again, I realize I may be oblivious). It almost seemed more like an exhibition than a competition. If there’s no real prize or anything it just seems like a show and people got ranked at the end. I don’t care how I rank. I figure the worst thing that can happen is I’ll make a fool out of myself in front of a room full of strangers–that won’t be a first. 😉 It should be a good motivator for me and it’s a goal I’ve had in the back of my head since I started poling. 🙂
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I totally agree that pole gave me so much more confidence but it makes me sad that so many women out there dislike and even hate themselves or their bodies (prior to pole). 🙁
I always tell people I think everyone (men and women) should pole–now I have a video to explain why–at least to women.
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Looks fun!
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Ah, I see. I’m not on FB so I have no idea what goes on in the rest of the world. 😉 That makes me feel better because, dang, I couldn’t figure out what I was missing. Thanks, Allyson.
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Thank you all so much for the replies. I’m glad I didn’t just order them. Doesn’t sound like they would work for me as I suspect the waist/hip thing would happen for me too as it does in lots of other pants and I hadn’t considered the 100% grippy and no slide thing either.
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CAR and various other laybacks but mostly something where I’m just gripping with thighs. I fell out of an advanced plank pretty hard early on so maybe that’s part of it.
And going over toward my back in a handstand. Was no problem when I was young but my back is so inflexible now I’m afraid it will crack in half or I will slam into the floor flat on my back if I go over.
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Hmm, thanks for the info. I’m not sure I would like them either then. I have some thigh high vinyl boots like that–stick like glue to the pole. And I’m thinking I’m more hippy than you so perhaps these aren’t for me. They look so amazing in everyone’s pics. I really don’t want to spend that much anyway–I’m a cheap TJ maxx workout wear girl. 🙂
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I’m in Columbus too. I’ve tried Infinity, Studio Rouge and Vertical Bliss. I prefer Studio Rouge but I don’t spend a lot of time in any studio and mostly pole at home. I just finished the Ultimate Lap Dance series at Studio Rouge and LOVED it.
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I use Fitbit and became hooked almost immediately because I’m type A and am now compelled to get my steps in. From a pole app I would want to be able to put moves that I’m in the process of working on in a folder or mark them in some way so I can get to them easily. I would probably even want a way of checking off the lessons I’ve done and feel like I’ve mastered.
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@evilpurpletoe PRP is very much the same–at least the same idea in that they use it to stimulate the muscle to heal itself. I’ve worked at two surgery centers where we did PRP for various hard to heal injuries like tendinitis. I can’t say if it worked for the patients because I only saw them the day of surgery since I didn’t work in the surgeon’s office. I do believe the dextrose healed my hamstring and I tried so much other stuff. I’m headed back to that doc to see if he’ll inject it again for my current re-injury. I’m no expert but I don’t think PRP can hurt. It may hurt being injected but I don’t think it can cause any damage. If the dextrose didn’t work for me my doc said PRP was an option and I would likely have tried it.
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I had a henna tattoo years ago and it stayed on for a few weeks though it gets lighter and lighter. I was even in the ocean with it. I don’t think it would rub off or smear. I also recall HilaryKate on IG having some kind of super cool body paint either at a performance or after or maybe a party or something. Don’t know if it was pole worthy but I remember it was very cool. I’ll see if I can find it.
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What finally worked: I know this thread is really old but hamstring injuries are so common for us that I wanted to share what finally worked for me. After 15 months my injury healed (and it was not even torn per MRI) but it only healed after two dextrose injections into the hamstring. That being said, a year or so later during a brief sprint workout (running) it became injured again, though not as bad.
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I haven’t been to a lot of pole classes but I have sampled all the studios in my town so I often have to go to the beginner class until they know where to place me if they are the sort of studio that teaches different levels. I’ve also gone to mixed level classes. I would not walk out of a class unless I felt the teacher was rude or unsafe and, frankly, I’ve stayed through a rude teacher before. There is always something I can learn or work on. I do not expect to be the center of class. I’m inclined to think that there was a “leader” in the group who left who took the group with her. Seems odd a whole group would individually decide to go. I would have been hurt too. I take everything personally. Someone yelled at me walking in the crosswalk in front of them the other day and I fretted about THAT for half an hour. 🙂 Good luck–hope it gets better.
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I just wanted to say that I love “pole coven!”
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Did you have EMG or nerve conduction testing done before surgery to confirm that the nerve needed to be released? Which fingers are numb?
I agree with Runemist about the horror stories. You can sometimes get useful tips and things online about medical condtions and procedures but Runemist is absolutely right that no one ever gets online to post how great things went–they just go on with their lives. While people do have complications remember that for each horror story posted there are many more who have done just fine. I work in outpatient surgery (I’m an RN) and most folks move on from carpal tunnel surgery and do very well but I can’t say I’ve seen a pole dancer so I can’t speak to that. I have just had surgery on my ulnar nerve for the second time due to numbness and weakness in my fourth and fifth fingers so I feel ya.
Good luck to you and keep us posted.
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Sometimes humidity is an issue. I carried on so much our dry house that my husband put in a whole house humidifier in our house. Poling on a stainless steel pole in the cold winter was extremely difficult.
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Interestingly, my husband tells me that when he tells people we don’t have kids and didn’t want any, he fairly often gets the reaction from other men that they wish they didn’t have kids–not in a nasty way but an honest way. I suspect some women feel the same but can’t say it.
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I started at age 44 and am about to turn 47 next week. I’m kind of amazed what my nearly 47-year-old body can do and I have no intention of stopping anytime soon. Welcome.
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Hellcat brings up a good point about not fitting in with other wome our age, although Veena said the same since she’s not a typical mom. Not having kids means I don’t really fit in with my coworkers and I have very few close friends. The fact is most women my age do have children so their lives are very different and they are very busy with different things that mostly involve their children. I found that once my friends started to have kids in their 20’s and 30’s most just started to drift away. It’s natural but it kinda sucks. We just don’t run in the same circles. Of course that is absolutely not a reason to have kids but just something to think about that you might find in your future too. If I was less of an introvert I would probably have more friends but it can be harder to find them being nontraditional. I still wouldn’t change that choice for anything–it is right for me.
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I’m an introvert, no kids, 46 years old, no regrets. I didn’t choose not to have kids because I particularly wanted to pursue other things. I just didn’t have any desire to raise a human being and, frankly, didn’t feel qualified. As a younger person I wondered if I would end up 40 years old cashing in my 401K in a desperate attempt to have kids, but that didn’t happen. I never felt any desire to have children and still don’t. There are more no-kids folks out there than you think. I always figured if I needed kid time there are probably lots of ways I could volunteer with kids or could have spent more time with my nieces and nephews. In my younger years people questioned me more about my choice and sometimes I felt like a freak but not anymore. I don’t know if times have changed or I’m just an old bat and don’t care what people think anymore. 🙂
