polefairy
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Welcome to StudioVeena https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif I am small aswell, I'm 4'11 and I think there are a few challenges that shorter polers face but also a few advantages that we have over taller dancers too. The biggest challenge for me is pole size. I used a standard 50mm for almost two years but became so disheartened and demotivated by the constant grip issues.
It's very hard to deal with other polers saying things like ''oh you just need to improve strength and you'll be fine on the 50mm''. Yes, that is true that improved strength is definitely going to help but I feel that perhaps some ladies don't quite understand just how difficult it is to grip with tiny hands. I cannot touch my fingers to my thumb (or anywhere even close to it) when I grip the pole. I just sold my 50mm and bought a 40mm. While I admire those who choose to struggle through and use the 50mm in the hope that it makes them a better/stronger poler, for me, it's a decision between either, A) Keep the 50mm and become more frustrated and eventually stop practicing or B) Get a smaller pole and actually enjoy using it and achieving moves I can't grip for on a 50mm. Certain spins are a no-go for me on the 50mm because they are simply too dangerous with my compromised grip. Like a reverse grab for instance, I can not hold on to save my life on the 50mm.
I only dance for myself, at home so I do not need to force myself to use a 50mm. For me, it's supposed to be a hobby and something I enjoy so I won't endure the frustration a bigger pole gives me if I don't need to.
Then of course moves like the twisted ballerina can be tricky because there is not a lot of me to go around the pole but it's definitely not impossible. We have a big advantage in that we have plenty of space on the pole and the freedom to wear heels and still appear to be petite little things. Being short definitely isn't a hindrance! Enjoy the poling 🙂
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hahaha oooh sassa I wish that were true but it's definitely fat. I can pinch it between two fingers. I deffo need a more muscular back https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Heeey Veeners!!
I've been having a dilemma with my body shape as of late. As a child I was a chubby (or as my mother would say, 'cuddly') little thing. I started martial arts at the age of 8 and carried it right through until I was 16. As I became as teenager I lost an awful lot of weight and became quite slim and very toned. I think because I stayed at the karate for so long, I never really learned what my natural body type was like.
Fast forward a few years and I no longer do any martial arts. My body changed a lot. Not so much to other people (thank God for clothes haha!) but definitely to me. I actually purposely TRIED to gain weight, after it dropped so low after a crappy break up. I hated being super skinny because it didn't suit me, I was always pretty strong looking and I had turned quite boney.
Anyway, I think I over did the whole gaining weight thing because over the last 12 months I see that I am bigger than before. I don't know how I didn't get a handle on it more, I suppose I didn't care that much and was dealing with anxiety a lot, even working out in front of people would make me tense and feel stupid. I'd be fooling myself if I tried to deny that I have gained weight. My BIG issue is the fat on my back. I don't know why the hell it even exists. It's so ugly and I've never had it before.
I have started training at the gym 3 times a week and LOVE the 'me time' it allows for and I've also cut out crappy foods, such as fried things, fizzy drinks, overly processed foods etc. So I am trying. What I really would like to know is if you ladies who have had this horrible back fat got rid of it? And if so, how? I know the gym and diet is the main thing but are there specific toning exercises I can do to improve my back??
On a side note, I have been in bits with headaches all this week. So much so that I may go to the doc tomorrow. Could these be from the new gym schedule? I am not starving myself or depriving myself of fluids so I'm not sure if the headaches are related?? It might not be, I just feel crap because now that I'm trying to really improve myself I can't because I'm stuck in bed, in pain! Grrr!
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Hey organic Angel, congrats on the baby!! I've been off the pole for 3+ months but my new pole should arrive next week and I'm excited to start practicing again!! Yay!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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It's just the original ones. The two rods and the allen key!
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Thanks Chemgoddess, I was hoping you'd reply. I'm just having no luck at all with it and need to be super careful so as to not bend or damage the tools or pole since it's being sold!
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Lord God my grammar in that post is appalling. I wish there was an edit button https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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Awh you poor thing! I don't have any advice as I still struggle with poor grip but I the skin ripping thing isn't that uncommon. I ripped the skin on my hand when I was sharing a pole with two other girls in a class. It was a Stainless Steel pole and I am used to chrome. It got really hot and my hand was bleeding and one of the girl's foot needed a plaster too! Good luck finding a solution.
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I have quite a weak lower back and since my job is more or less standing for 10hours per day, I find that I get awful pains when I do finally go to sit down. I've often wondered if it's a posture thing. Let us know what the doc says! Good luck 🙂
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I found StudioVeena through her videos too https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
Really nice of you to check back in to read this thread Tara Karina. I am having CBT for anxiety too, it's been really helpful. I just know 2012 is gona be great!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif
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I was just thinking that too Lyme Lyte. It is a site where you end up missing people when they are not around. Nice to know your character can make such an impression even through a screen though https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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Awwh you sound so cute !! Especially with the ''stay calm'' breaths. Hahah I don't think we have racoons over here, there was ONE sighting over here last year believed to have been brought in from the states illegally. They look cute on google imagine, why are they bad?
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I should probably mention that I did pull my hamstring about 1.5 years ago. Very painful indeed. Never, ever, ever want a repeat of that!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif
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Thank you polevixen, I totally agree. I asked above about stretching even when you're sore and this is why. I do not want to get injured but I don't wana wuss out over normal stretching pains either https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Thanks ladies, I am very pleased by the response this thread has gotten. I was reluctant to post it incase I sounded stupid https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_porc.gif
I am going to start stretching more regularly now anyway and hopefully I will see some progress. I know actually seeing a difference will spur me on to keep going. That's amazing how quickly some of you have progressed. I may get the DVD's once I have some money (Alethea gave me a 20% discount for entering her comp but it expired before I had the money saved) I also am planning to renew my lessons here after payday!
In relation to the DVD's tarah, I don't have them yet but I did do her workshop and the stretches are very, very good. She has a great way of explaining things and breaking them down. I can't speak for her DVDs since I haven't watched them but certainly her teaching method is very encouraging. I was sore for daaaays after her workshop though.. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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Aaaah Tarah you missed me haha https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif
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Cheryl Licious – Thank you for posting! That's really, really cool and very encouraging too. I feel more excited to stretch now and funnily enough I have been considering taking Pilates classes so I think I deffo will now!! Thank you!!! 🙂
Ellierox – thanks for posting, I know we talked recently about this and I'm so excited to learn that you have front splits now ! That is amaaaaazing. The stretches I do are varied, I use a lot of what Alethea did in her class here, like the chest to the floor using pole, walking the seatbones back while reaching for the toes etc. Veena also has some calf stretches that are really good for me because mine are so tight. Then of course the normal lunges, the butterfly/diamond stretch etc.
Lynette – Thank you, you are very much correct in that flexibility takes time and can not be achieved quickly. I am not too worried about it but I just want to know all the facts before I commit to it again. I don't want to give up this time. Thank you for the luck!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Thank you for your response Luvlee, that's actually very encouraging.
Lyme Lite I am glad you are asking the same questions too, I was afraid I'd look stupid for literally have no knowledge about this stuff at all! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_safesex.gif I am excited too to see the answers!
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They are so cute! I bloody love those shorts. How adorable. You'll have to post a dance in them now 🙂 🙂
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We KNOW Webbie is sexy…. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cool.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_safesex.gif Hahahaha! (joke, don't kill me Veena)
But seriously, it's a great site. I'd probably have been discouraged a long, long time ago had it not been for this site and the people on it. I can't even believe membership is free, we get so much for nothing here. I do encourage everyone who takes lessons to consider the one's here. I am about to renew my membership too. They're brill!
Thank you both https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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I'm gona add one now, best of luck with the new venture.
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I'm tiny, 4'11.. So have been jokingly called nymph, elf, tinkerbell etc. It's a pole dancing site so I picked polefairy. My real name is Laura.
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Brilliant, thank you! Will let you know how it is if I do get one. Fingers crossed for Taxback in Feb! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif
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Veena, in your experience would it be difficult to dance on a 40mm when I'm used to a 50mm?. I find 50mm is very big (though I'm very small myself).
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I believe these are in Ireland now. SO excited. I'm going to get one once I get the all clear from the doc to keep practicing. Hooray!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gifhttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
