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I am really sorry to know about this. You said the insults was in Portuguese, so there’s a chance that this girl is Brazilian. Here in Brazil, pole dancing is getting popular just now, in the past two or three years. And this year was the first time we saw pole dance in TV shows. So, we are starting to change the vision of brazilian people about pole dance.
The problem is that, at the same time, there is a wave of false moralism going on in the country because of some very conservative religious and political groups in our Congress. They don’t accept gay people, the only family concept that they accept is man, women and children, they are even making laws that obligate women that were raped and got pregnant to have the rapist son.
So, I would not pay attention to this comments. It must have come to one of those fanatic persons who doesn’t understand nothing at all about pole dancing and have this rage inside about everything that goes beyond their little world. Don’t you ever stop doing something you like because of someone else, especially for someone you don’t even know!
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I am afraid to train alone. When I am with my instructor by my side, I do (or at least try to do) anything she proposes and things that I already do by myself, but need to clean up. However, when I am alone, I am afraid to do most of things, especially in the invert position. With the crash mat, I dare a little more, but somethings I just feel secure with someone watching me.
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Thanks Veena. I was thinking in something to do together with resting, but if it is enough, I’ll take my time. ^^
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Is it possible to do in a static bar?
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Recently I started yoga and I am really loving it. I realized that my breath is horrible. I realized how much anxiety exist inside me. It began as a way to gain force and flexibility for pole and it helped to understand to respect my body. I also like doing headstand and handstand as a way to prepare my body for other things.
And about your stories with studios, I am feeling truly blessed. I had the luck to find a studio with such a good environment. It is a very small studio and we are only 14 girls at this moment, including the two instructors. And I can say that we are friends, we all know each other, even the ones who is not in the same schedule. My studio it not the better place, we don’t have a large space, the floor it’s not the better to do floorwork, I find it really expensive… but I really don’t care because I realize that I have fun in class. I do it on saturdays and I wait the whole week for this moment. And I don’t think it would be the same in a different place.
And we are very supportive with each other. Every time when I see someone achieving a move that I can’t do and feel bad about it, someone point out something that I can do and how much I improved. And we are also compreensives. There is no rush, there is no pressure. What I feel is a incentive to give the best of me. And because of this, I am now feeling different about the whole pole experience.
And most important. A while ago I was very frustrated for not be able to invert. But recently I realized that my instructor don’t really force me into it. When she wants me to do some move that requires an invert, she helps me to do it properly so I don’t have to jump into it. So I realized that the rush was always in my head!!
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I know how you feel. I am a highschool teacher and so I have to hide from my students that I am also a pole dancer if I don’t want to hear any bad comments coming from them. My Facebook and Instagram are private and, apart the fact that I rarely put photos of myself on pole, only chosen people can see what what I publish. Sometimes I wish to talk openly about that and perhaps make them understand. But every time I try, I regret!
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I am doing pole dance for a year and a half and I don’t invert always and I can’t do de V straddle yet. Its is only a week, but it’s been a long time already. I also have a pole at home and it is worse too. I am afraid of training by myself, even having a good mattress in case of falling and my pole seems too slippery too.
I have a pole friend that began after than me and already does aerial inverts and she doesn’t have a pole. And I also got frustrated a while ago.
But my instructor gave me an advice: pole dancing is supposed to be fun and not to add another frustration in life. I just need to keep training and have a good time doing it. I practice inverts every week, from the ground, from standing and add the knee tucks in my practice. I can’t invert every time, but it doesn’t seems impossible anymore. Veena’s strength routine is going to help you for sure because it focus on muscles that you gonna need to invert.
There is no secret, we just need to train. It will happen eventually!!! -
I have mixed feelings about that. My studio also doesn’t test for levels. As a matter of fact, we don’t have differentiation of levels. Advanced girls trains with the beginners. This has a good and a bad side for me, because this way we can help each other but at the same time, beginners can feel tempted to try some things they are not ready yet. However, my instructor is quite good to see abilities on each one, and she teaches everyone in a different way. For instance, I am going from beginner to intermediate but I am already capable of doing the advanced teddy. The same thing doesn’t happens with a girl who is in the same level as I, but she can make aerial inverts and I am still struggling with the basic invert.
Of course that in my studio beginners doesn’t do ayesha’s or eros (no one does that in my studio except my instructor), but sometimes my instructor leads us to try some tricks out of our levels if she thinks we are capable of by observing our progress. Sometimes I feel that maybe some of us are doing things we are not ready yet, but as far as I can tell, we don’t have actually safety issues in my studio. I just think that my instructor does a fantastic job teaching us!!!
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I am sorry to get into this conversation without any help but I had to comment. I find really funny that you guys can buy brazilian pole shorts because I am brazilian way it is so difficult to find things for pole dance around here…
Everything is very expensive but the shorts are particularly hard to find! My instructor buys the fabric and we ask for a tailor to do them.
Now I am considering importing the brazilian shorts, kkkkkkkkk
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Ow, and there this one I think is very effective
http://www.lovemyyoga.com/images/CamelPose.jpg
I didn’t started touching my ankle from the beginning and, actually, I still can’t thouch it. And, despite the fact that I don’t force it, somehow I feel this is the one pose that can help the most me with back pain and flexibility.
Hope it helps!!
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Have you tried the half bridge?
http://www.joannesumner.com/js/tinymce-upgrade/plugins/imagemanager/files/pelvic_tilt_600x400.jpg
It is how I began to train the back flexibility and only went to the full bridge only when I felt this is way too comfortable.
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I always thought they were different moves, because my school calls them scorpio (short version) and gemini (long version).
The short version was the first movement I learnt before even start inverting properly. It never bother me, never hurted me and I am kinda surprise that it is painful for some people… The long version, however, was a little bit more difficult because of my terrible, horrible flexibility :/ -
I danced once in an event from my studio for an external audience, in a theater, and it was free of charge. My studio is also small (it only supports five girls per class) and still we didn’t pay to do dance. We had sponsorship and the routine was made by ourselves and our instructor during class….
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Thanks Venna!! I will try it!
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I don’t feel actual pain while stretching, it is more like a “burning” feeling, not good but not that bad either.
Well, there are actually a couple of days in my week that is insanely busy, so I am taking those days as a rest day!!
Thank you for the tips, Runemist34!!! 🙂