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I have no poleshame, generally, more of a “this is what I do, like it and stay, despise me and walk” attitude to all things in life. I admit it does not get you MANY friends, but it gets you good ones.
When someone asks the usual “you’re a stripper, then?”, I answer “if you think I’m nearly hot enough for that, you’ve been going to the wrong clubs”. It normally ends in sheepish laughter when the person realises what they said and we’re all friends again.

That said, it’s an attitude not everyone can afford. I work in a gaming company. I pole. One of my best friends has half of his body (the normally exposed half) covered in tattoos and shows up to work with face bruised from MMA training. People come to work dressed in ANY way, including multicoloured wigs and corsets. And I love it.
And nobody is gonna give me any pain about my poling.

But if I worked in a law firm (this is from past experience, it probably applies to many jobs), I know things would be different. I used to be a secretary and I remembered my boss giving me trouble because during the weekend he had met me at a bar and I was drunk. On a weekend.
If you think sharing your pole is gonna give you real trouble with your job, studies, career homelife, whatever… weigh it VERY carefully.
If you keep something secret, you can share it any time. If you share it, you cannot unshare it if you change your mind.
We all love pole and we should not be ashamed to. But if you let the fact you pole ruin your life (because others are stupid), you might end up hating pole, and nobody wants that. (nobody wants your life ruined, either!!!)

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Well, I don’t haven even the shadow of a thigh gap, so I cannot give great advice… what I have seen others say many times is that if you have one, you have to squeeze extra hard, and that turning your knees in towards each other helps a lot. Again, I cannot say whether this can solve problems, my thighs are very friendly with each other and touch aaaaall the time 🙂

I guess this is obvious, but maybe try practicing stuff from the floor until you are sure you have an extra safe and consistent grip with your new thigh-shape? Would suck to find it’s not really working when you’re 2 meters up with your hands somewhere far from the pole.

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I live in Germany and the authority in charge of this here, GEMA, are quite strict, unreasonable, and annoying.
Half the videos from the Poleranking yt channel, and a lot of other pole videos are blocked on yt from Germany, and you get the usual message “this video is not available in your country due to copyright blablabla”. It does not even remove the audio only, the entire vid is blocked.

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for me it’s easy to tell the difference: if te pole is making me dizzy, then I am dizzy AND nauseous. In which case, ginger is yoyur friend.
If it’s low sugar or dehydration, I get dizzy + strong headache + I lose periphereal vision and start seeing dots floating all over the place. In which case, drink more (maybe add some lemon or lime juice to your water, it helps me a lot, especially if you also belong to the heavy sweating family like me), and try to take better care of yourself in the eat/sleep/nostress departments =)

[iani]

I think who wrote the lyrics was a closet poledancer!

[iani]

Not sure links work/are allowed, but I guess so… so here’s the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR9VcSfW76A

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Update: as I aid I contacted the AA website asking why DVDs and clothing could be paid through paypal and the digital downloads cannot. Answer was that they use a different service for the downloads, and it does not support paypal.
Being VERY paranoid about giving credit card data (bad hacker experiences in the past) I decided to chicken out.
BUT I got Cleo the Hurricane’s Rocking legs and abs. Now, I realize it’s not the same thing as AA’s, but it had paypal and I actually enjoy the music a lot =)
I am on week 3 (just started) of followjng her hardcore program, and it’s already giving results! I am not stronger, but I am more flexible, and I am learning to use the right muscles to do something rather than pushing for a result without knowing what is required to get there (not sure if that makes any sense, can’t explain better though)

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I was a bit taken aback by the fact the website does not offer paypal, but only direct payment to them giving credit card data (they do offer paypal for everything else, just not for the digital downloads!).
I am a bit paranoid as I had my credit card cloned before (I do not mistrust the Alethea Austins website itself, just anyone that might break into their data), so I wrote them to ask why they don’t offer paypal for the digital downloads… I’ll let you know if they answer.

Gives me more time to think which of them I should buy ^^

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I think I will get them tonight then, your girls inspired me =)
I train more or less every day, let’s say 6 times a week, 3 in the gym, the rest at home. Pole training is a bit hard for me because I struggle to make a training routine, and if I try moves and stuff I need to keep stopping to check the lesson again, or I get awful poleburn real fast and have to stop, which makes me feel like I did not train at all and is quite frustrating.

So as a sort of spin-off question: what do you people do on a normal training session? Or what did you use to do when you were complete beginners?