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Glad you are all discovering Bob Cooley’s book and getting results! The DVDs with Dara Torres are really terrific too. Happy stretching!
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Hi
Poletential instructor, here! Almost all of us are headed to LA for convention. The owner is there already, which is why you likely aren't getting called back. Our regularly scheduled classes are cancelled this weekend, but there is indeed open studio Sunday 10:30 – 12:30. I believe it's $10 (but don't quote me, not certain.) You can just show up, someone will be there to have you sign a waiver and take your $.
Ellen
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Hi Paulette,
They’re $20, and they show and describe the strength and stretch moves for all the major lower and upper body stretches. They’re super helpful. Send me a message if you’re interested. Good luck with the stretching!
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Sorry Shay, I don’t record them. Use the flash cards I sent you, they’re really good. 🙂
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Omg I just saw this! How’s it going, you two?? Any questions?
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I think it's just like anything else: practice practice practice! I just started a new class at Poletential called Pole Fusion: where tricks meet dance. I come up with about 7 tricks or move combos that we all go over (these are advanced girls who know most of these tricks anyway), and then we work on how to dance in and out of them. How can you transition them? What are good moves to do going in and coming out? And then we dance these same 7 moves for a month. At the end of it, the goal is that those 7 moves are now so second nature to you, that you can incorporate them smoothly into your dancing while still moving expressively to the music.
I'd say, practice with moves you know well. The more you're used to the moves, the more you can forget about them and focus on your movement quality. And then dance to a song you know like the back of your hand. Hit the big moments, work the pauses, really focus on interpreting its highs and lows.
It takes time to get good at this, but it's well worth practicing just as much as the "trick of the moment."
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ooh poledanceromance, please elaborate! i'm intrigued!
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OK, just uploaded a vid of me doing Jenyne's apprentice to allegra transition. I look like holy hell after 4 hours of teaching, but there you have it! 🙂 Hope it helps.
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I have zero skill/luck at finding moves in videos, my apologies!
I learned this from Jenyne. You start in an apprentice V hold at the side of the pole– for me, right (inside) thigh pressed to pole, left outside arm at nose height, right inside arm fingers down with right thigh placed on the pole above the hand. Lean back into a V. (See Apprentice on http://www.wikipole.org–but don't hook the top ankle on the pole, and keep both legs straight.)
From there, both knees bend so you tuck into a ball and hold the pole between your knees/lower thighs. To do that, you'll need to let the pole slide from the top of the right inside thigh up deep into the hip crease on that leg. Once you have a good squeeze on the pole, your bottom right hand releases and re-grabs the pole behind the right inside knee, thumb up. Release the left outside hand, and unroll the body and chest away from the pole, down to the left. Ta da–Allegra!
I hope this helps. If you're totally mystified, I can try to video it.
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I have zero skill/luck at finding moves in videos, my apologies!
I learned this from Jenyne. You start in an apprentice V hold at the side of the pole– for me, right (inside) thigh pressed to pole, left outside arm at nose height, right inside arm fingers down with right thigh placed on the pole above the hand. Lean back into a V. (See Apprentice on http://www.wikipole.org–but don't hook the top ankle on the pole, and keep both legs straight.)
From there, both knees bend so you tuck into a ball and hold the pole between your knees/lower thighs. To do that, you'll need to let the pole slide from the top of the right inside thigh up deep into the hip crease on that leg. Once you have a good squeeze on the pole, your bottom right hand releases and re-grabs the pole behind the right inside knee, thumb up. Release the left outside hand, and unroll the body and chest away from the pole, down to the left. Ta da–Allegra!
I hope this helps. If you're totally mystified, I can try to video it.
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I like Jenyne's method of going into Allegra from apprentice. It also puts the pole right at your hip and allows you to unwind your chest away from the pole, so the ribs never make contact.
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No problem!
Rebecca Starr and I chatted about rainbow Marchenko. She said as hard as it is, what's even harder is getting into it! Can't even freaking imagine….https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif
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Alethea taught this in her masters workshop at Poletential last weekend.
From the superman, you bend the knee and grab the opposite foot of your free hand. Your free/straight leg has to point WAY down at the floor–pretty much vertical. You press the calf of the bent leg against the pole, pull it into the pole with your hand, and let go with the hand that was the top hand in your superman.
The only place it really hurts is on that calf. If you point your free leg down you get away from your lady business. Alethea said when she first did this, she just let go and dropped into it, and thought she fractured her vagina! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gifSo, move into it slowly.
Hope this helps.
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Sorry to report this event has been cancelled. I'm having some health issues and can't fly. Sad I won't get to meet Veeners!! 🙁
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Pole jam is coming up next weekend!! WOOHOO!!!! Can't wait to meet Veeners. If you're in New England, join us!!
