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Mine! Haha.

No really…. I always, always, ALWAYS, get into anything from Leigh Ann, Chalese (one of my all time woman crushes), I looooved Lux’s. So fun. Sexy IS fun!

And of course I am waiting for AM to post one. I hope she does, I know she was on the road this year and may have gotten sidetracked.

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Ideally, you want to be able to do all moves proficiently on both sides. There may be a time when doing your extended butterfly on your “bad”side sets you up better for your next planned move, or works better with your direction if you are on spinny pole. No matter which side you’re on, your outside foot is catch foot and outside hand is high on pole.

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There’s an exercise I do with my students where I make them pick a single body part and touch only that body part for 60 seconds or more. The idea is to encourage them to play with what your hands and wrists and arms can do when it comes to telling a story with your dance. Think about the difference in the posture of your hands when you are feeling coy, shy, sexy, seductive, angry, happy, silly, sad. Large hand/arm movements. Tiny, almost imperceptible hand/arm movements.

The idea behind isolating a single body part is that they are forced to really think about it and focus – there is no room for absent-minded touching.

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There’s a move I do from a forearm/handstand where I “drop” through a little outside leg hang and flip it to a low planche/superman style move. That might be considered an inversion, dunno. ?

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One of the best ways to get used to dancing on spin is to write down a few of your favorite combinations, and really think them through strategically BEFORE you get up on the pole. Some move combinations will speed your stand up, others will slow it down, and still others might stop you completely….. And then lots of them will make no real difference at all. Spin pole requires a much different style of strategic thinking than static, because you always have to think about whether a combination of moves will speed you up or slow you down or simply keep you going.

When I work spin pole I do many things in clockwise direction because it feels the most natural to me. That means some moves I end up spinning backward, some moves I end up spinning forward.

I love that spin pole, I wish I had started working on it earlier. 🙂

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Have you done fan kicks on a spinny pole? If not you should! 1) they’re an AMAZING conditioning exercise 2) they are (IMO) one of the best ways to get a pretty invert straight to inside leg hang on a spinny pole, because just before you finish the “fan” your hips are exactly where they need to be and all you need to do is hook that inside leg. Easy peasy!

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I must blogged about this recently for United Pole Artists. 🙂
Simple poses like leg hangs, hood ornament, handstands tend to photograph beautifully because you can control your lines and shapes and camera angles so much better. You want to make your outcomes as predictable as possible. http://unitedpoleartists.blogspot.com/2014/06/ready-for-your-closeup-how-to-prep-for.html

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You can roll across the pole (over your back) and do a lovely reverse stag/body spiral position, gorgeous on spin mode if you happen to be. 🙂

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Whooop, misread your original post. The top left, I’d simply call a planche, or maybe a machine gun variation/half machine gun, though usually you wouldn’t have your arm over your leg like that. ?

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Looks to me like you’ve got a straddle hip hold and then an inverted thigh hold variation. 🙂

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Rosanna Danna here is fantastic, love her style. For SURE check out AM Davies — founder of UPA. She positively oozes sex, and I have yet to see a dancer who can grab an entire crowd by the short hairs like she can. Holy. Crap.

Also: Chalese Marie on YouTube, some of the most impressive (and sort of feasible for mere mortals lol) floorwork I’ve seen. Starrgrrrl on YouTube, she wins at pirouettes and twirls, OMG.

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For me the most straightforward entry is from outside leg hang…and that is the first way I teach, but my students seem to love getting into theirs from flatline inside leg hang or piked hip hold. It looks like some sort of magic and that’s so exciting to watch. 🙂

PS – I am SOOOOO glad my tip video is helping people get this move! I struggled with that blasted hip flip for entirely too long.

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Flighter–also check out Rachele Ribera. I’ve never seen heel work like hers, it’s so glide-y, there’s no other way to describe it. And if you’re into effing CRAZY stripper style heel work with shoe bangs and floppy ankles….. look no further than Chalese and AM.

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Anything by Eva Bembo. Anything at all. http://youtu.be/5YPNueXdMCk

Same with Annemarie Davies, though I do have a particular fondness for this one: http://youtu.be/6k4wq50nn9Q

And Chalese Hathaway, one of my long-time polegirlcrushes. I mean, really, look at this business. http://youtu.be/KGrpwwVmweM

And this video is just plain fab — and she’s a Veener, too! http://youtu.be/UBuh0gTdoCk

I, ummmm, get down with stripper style pole. Obviously lol.

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I posted this a while back–several Veeners found it helpful. Maybe you’ll pick up a tip or two. 🙂

https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/51fbb772-81dc-477b-987a-5f910ac37250