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Tinkerbell..I dont think theres a strict time limit or anything https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif you can do any of the monthly challenges at any time. I think most people try and get them in before the end of the month but no ones gonna yell at you if you’re late! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif It’s just for fun.
Go on to the video section of this site and click the green upload your video tab. And put something indicating that it is you jan challange in the title. I think thats it. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif -
Oh lawdy my playlist expands every day, I love so many different genres of music and I’m always poling to new playlists depending on my mood.
I’m obsessed with Amanda Palmers solo stuff and her stuff with the Dresden dolls so dance to that a lot, even though its not particually "sexy" but its quite caberet/burlesquey so it works. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif I also love dancing to music that you would never expect poling to work with. I love dancing to piano music, yann tierson and debussy etc.
Today I danced to the Magnetic Fields…which was fun.
Sex beat – the gun club and f**k the people by the kills are awesome songs to get down to.
Errr…love french electro stuff like Justice and Vitalic, I love dancing to motown and soul, the beats are so sexy, and also I love dancing slowly to a lot of billie holiday or ella fitzgerald stuff.Though I like hip hop I don’t tend to dance to it much.I really like j dilla, madlib and jehst but just don’t seem to end up adding those tracks to my playlist, I may try to do more of that.
I also love dancing to heavier stuff like nirvana,hole, rage against the machine, slipknot, TOOL, nine inch nails, pantera etc…I’m not really into that kinda music much anymore, but I used to love it, and it works well for poling.
Then for pure fun, love dancing to lady gaga, britney, all that good poppy stuff. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif
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Merry christmas guys!! I’m on the mulled wine and chocolate already!!! Love it! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_santa.gif
Maybe some drunk poling later https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif
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im gonna be at an xmas party but im gonna drunkenly sneak away in my elf costume and get on chat. cos im a party animal. and my friends laptop is always on.
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Hi there! Yay another uk lass! I’m from London but I went to Uni in Leeds and I was always popping over to Manc, I miss it! I’m a beginner too, I’ve just hit the 2 month mark, can’t wait to be able to do crazy stuff but I guess have to build up strength first. sigh.
Your job sounds amazing, I wanna have a pole in my work. Although I work in market research at the moment so you know, it might be a little out of place. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
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Edward is definitely a little girl. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif Stealing lifesized posters from burger king?? Thats pretty disturbing, but whats even more disturbing is that I’m not even surprised, twilight fans, as amcut mentioned above, are crazy.
Sascha be careful with the whole "I may go to the movie again to have a good laugh" thing….that was how I got drawn in with the first movie! Then I wasted about a week reading all the books back to back (it only takes a week https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif )and get a scary gleeful feeling whenever I think about the next film being released. I can’t even help it anymore. It’s like I’ve been possessed by twilight mania or something. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif -
my cousin forced me to go see New Moon…..WHAT was that WEIRD STUPID scene where bella and edward were just frollicking through the woods?? trapsing and running their merry little hearts out???? i haven’t read the books or seen any of the other movies….i guess i would have understood that scene better i guess…..
I went to go and see new moon voluntarily (I am secretly an 11 year old) and yeah that scene was completely ridiculous. The whole cinema burst out laughing though. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
It was so much fun though, me and my friend went on the day it was released (seriously not helping my cred here) and it was awesome just a crazy estrogen fest. The only guys there had blatantly been dragged along. And everytime Jacob took his top off the whole audience would cheer. At one point he got a standing ovation. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
And at one point there was so much heckling and cheering that a security guard came in with a massive torch and yelled at everyone to quiet down.
Me and my friend were in hysterics like "Wtf…there CROWD CONTROL. for a FILM." https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gifBut yeah. Loved it. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif
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Basically YES YES YES I am in london and I will travel anywhere! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif
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JEALOUS!
you guys are gonna have such an amazing time. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_santa.gif
lol the site is gonna be pretty dead for the weekend then. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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OMG im so excited about this…will be my first studioveena challenge! I get paid on tues so I’m gonna get me a costume! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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I have a suggestion!
I am still relatively new so not sure whether this has already been discussed or whether people think its a good idea, but maybe there could be a section on the forum which is like a "everything else non pole related" section? I mean I know we have the blogs which are awesome and we can chat about other stuff apart from poling there and also chat which is fun, but I cant always make it to friday night chat cos of the time difference and I’d love to get to know some of the ladies here and just sorta blab to them about their day/music/ school/work/families whatever. just a suggestion. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif -
Ooops, my apologies!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif I should know… https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif
Thanks for kicking it, Veena, won’t happen again!
I don’t have a youtube account or such, so it won’t show up elsewhere. Sorryaww Tine you should get a youtube account! Its pretty simple, only takes a few minutes to set one up and I’d love to see your video! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif Really wanna see Veenas strength video as well, hopefully that will be up soon! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif
Thanks for all the helpful comments, I just wanna make sure I’m doing everything correctly, don’t wanna end up hurting myself or with hulk like neck and shoulder muscles https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif -
I’m from London! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif Been poling nearly a month, welcome to studio veena! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif
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Thanks so much everyone theyre all awesome! I think I’m gonna use Veenas pole art one and Fleurs misguided ghosts. My mum loves arty things, I’m pretty sure those ones will sell it to her. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif That dance to Marilyn Manson is AMAZING btw. And woops I didnt realise there was a similar thread! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif Sorry!
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Thank you so much Charley and Gsylass thats all really helpful!
And I guess an exercise to music qualification would mean you would be able to teach other things like aerobics etc?
I think what struck me about the couple of pole classes I’ve attended (and all the dance classes actually) is how inspiring and helpful the teachers always are. Maybe I’ve just been lucky but so far all the dance teachers I have encountered have been really vibrant amazing people. I’d love to be that to others someday.
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cool thanks…its so interesting. As I say I’ve only been to one or two lessons but found the teacher really inspiring, I’d love to do it someday.
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Do you think its worth buying one of those "how to get started in the pole business" ebook thingies? I mean they might be a scam but they don’t look tooo expensive.
I’d just like to know…what sort of qualifications/insurance you need to have (surely there must be some sort of qualification process…or else how would people know you are good enough) and tips from people who have done it.
Find it very interesting. I suppose obviously people who have done it have done it off their own bat and dont particularly want to go about spreading all their success secrets https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif and of course I completely respect that. I’m not really looking to start a massive successful studio or anything. Just thinking it would be nice to teach some evening classes when I’m older and wiser. -
Haha brilliant! I told my mum I was getting a pole in my room, and at first she just stared at me completely nonplussed and said "A…stripper pole??" doubtfully and I said "NO mum an exercise pole, its completely different! Its like…the…new yoga."
and then she was just completely fine with it. And recently my mums friend came round and she proudly referred to my "exercise pole". She loves all the spins I can do now as well…and wants me to teach her….(note…my mum is 63!!!) Hehehe. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif -
I used to dance, nothing major just an adult ballet class, and I managed to get my splits in about 2 months. Every morning I would do some form of excercise to warm up for about 20mins (even if it was just dancing like crazy around my room to music) Then I would do a set of about 10-12 stretches and hold each stretch for at least one minute. The stretches I would do would vary…there are really helpful sites all over the internet and youtube videos that detail different stretches exactly…Then I would attempt front split, right and left and middle splits, and hold them for one minute as well.
I did it in the morning for 15 minutes, then I would repeat it in the evening before I went to bed.
It WILL happen, I think thats the main thing to remember. It can be really discouraging when you feel like you arent progressing, but just stick at it. Also your body can sometimes do weird things, like one time I was really excited because I had almost got my right split the night before,I tried again in the morning and it was almost like I was right back to square one….i was about 2 foot off the ground! I just gave it a rest and stretced more in the evening. Don’t push it, just persist gently.
Sadly, even though I did get it, I didnt keep it up over my final exams, and now Im almost as unflexible as if I never
got them so I have to start aaallover again. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gifSo if you get them…KEEP THEM! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif Good luck everyone! -
Thank you for the welcome everyone! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_smurf.gif
Hipshaker: where about in london you based?? I’m south east, its so funny because when you live in London you always thinkits a big enough city to be anonymous but I BET we share about one mutual friend on facebook/myspace or the like….the world is stupidly small sometimes it never actually ceases to surprise me.
poleophile: Paddington Bear DOES live at the tube station. He just keeps a low profile as hes so famous and all. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif The only place in Germany Ive ever been is Berlin but I really loved it there, such a cool city. Hehe studied under Derrida thats pretty amazing.
Sissybuns: Thank you my dear. I actually have posted a video, I did it this morning…its not very good, but I enjoyed it! sadly being a philosophy graduate hasnt led on to too many job oppertunities which leaves me with plenty of time at homewith my pole. And camera. So hopefully Ill improve.
Maddie28uk:Thanks hun! How long have you been dancing for?
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Cool. Thank you https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
