polergirl
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You can take plank down into a full layback, then to EG/SG/TG aysha — doesn’t take a LOT of flexibility or I wouldn’t be able to do it lol. Basically you twist your body like you’re going into a brass monkey from a layback, except you keep your legs straight and hold the pole at your ankles. Hands in position, twist your body, and off you go!
It’s my favorite way to get into an aysha because it’s unexpected and looks sort of like magic. 😉
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My very favorite dances are almost always trick-free or very slim on tricks. Give me some good DANCING, tricks or no tricks, any day.
PS – I’m almost 43, not long and lean, terribly short arms with long torso, not flexy, and I still manage to be pretty good up ther….. AND more importantly I have a great time on the pole/dance floor. 😉
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polergirl, same as here. 🙂
I’m a latecomer to Instagram but I like it!
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I have absolutely no interest in learning to do the Janeiro, mostly because I have yet to see someone get out of it gracefully. Usually it’s the last move before the lights go out.
If I can’t dance onto it or out of it, I don’t want to do it.
I’m also generally not interested in moves that are difficult or impossible to do in shoes. I love me some platform shoes and don’t want my tricks to interfere with my shoe love lol.
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Eye contact. Not to be crass, but if you’re dancing for someone, eye bang them lol.
Know what moves and at what angles show off your best parts to their best advantage.
Dancers tend to do lots of pirouettes in all sorts of variations, hip figure 8s, sliding down the pole with it against your back…..fir practical purposes. Those kinds of moves allow them to show off various parts and also to make the super important eye contact, plus they won’t leave you worn out at the end of a set, much less at the end of a shift. If you want to watch dancers with AMAZING flow you can usually find several at strip clubs. Those ladies can MOOOOOOOVE. The name of the game is to exemplify your dancer persona, whatever that may be, and give your audience an idea of your personality and, let’s be honest, the way in which you do the dirty.
Cheekily/sexily rubbing the pole with hands, body, etc. I think you know what images that will bring to mind. 😉
Floorwork that makes you look like you’re a) having sex or b) about to have sex. Barring those two things, floorwork that shows off particular body parts. Butt, legs, boobs…..whatever your best assets are, give them center stage!
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I definitely choreograph with care for where the audience is and what they’ll be seeing. If it’s a move that is only particularly pretty with a nice wide crotch shot I make sure I’m on spin pole so at least they don’t get that crotch shot for an extended period of time.
And I know with almost any static pole spin how many rotations I will get. If you start tracking I’ll bet yours are pretty close to the same every time. So I make sure I start in the right spot to finish accordingly.
Floor work is much easier, make sure you build in transitions that maneuver you into the best angles.
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I tend to gravitate toward dancers who have great reputations for technique, safety, and conditioning. Pantera, Jamilla, Felix, etc.
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I get mine from a a dancewear shop–they call theirs stirrup leg warmers…I like the longer lengths.
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I link *dozens* of pirouettes to half spins to more pirouettes to dives and slides in any given freestyle ….. if you watch any “stripper style” video on YouTube you’ll probably see a lot of them. There are SO SO SO many things that can be done, and so many of them probably don’t really have names so to speak.
This is an oldie I did when we had a “pole in street clothes” challenge here on SV. No tricks, nuthin’ but transitions. Maybe you’ll find something fun in there. 🙂
https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/4f493c7c-1c0c-45b8-afed-78810ac37250
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I posted my first yesterday, hopefully of tagged correctly. 15 seconds is SHORT! 🙂
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TG from on the pole is also muuuuuch less damaging than handspring kicking into TG anything. Less force twisting on the shoulder in jerky fashion.
I don’t do it and I don’t teach it. Have seen too many people complaining of injuries and soreness after doing it for awhile.
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I am a permanent passenger on the Bembo train. That woman is incredible. I love that she doesn’t bust out trick after trick after trick but the work she does is soooooo deceptively impossible lol.
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It might create more opportunity … but how would “plus-size” be determined? I feel like having competitions that are specific as to body type/size could lead to problems. Maybe not but that’s my gut reaction.
I heartily believe that pole is for everyone, and I have concerns that the competition mentality (which seems to be growing every day) can be harmful to “everyday” dancers who aren’t able to train like elite athletes and who simply may not have the genetics necessary to have a competitive poler’s physique. I include myself in the everyday group for sure. There are very thin people who have difficulty putting on weight and gaining muscle, and not-thin people who have difficulty taking weight off and gaining muscle. If we look to current competitive polers and competitions as the benchmarks for what we as pole dancers “should” be we are hurting ourselves tremendously….in my opinion, anyway.
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PDR, exactly. I don’t mind the memes in and of themselves (though some of them are kinda lame and cheesy, IMO) — but I do mind the implication that I’m less-than if I dont have a full six-pack. So many of these images come out of, as you say, mostly unhealthy practices to cut up before a photo shoot. Yet we’re being told that if we don’t have abs that could slice paper, it’s because we’re not trying.
And people who are naturally very thin, who have difficulty putting on weight and muscle mass…. fitspo is every bit as negative for them. They’re being told their bodies aren’t right either.
I feel like fitspo is just another way of propagating a body-shaming mentality.
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The “Tutorials” section of PoleFreaks is also FILLED with videos ripped from YouTube, etc. There was an emotioncatcher tutorial on the very first one I clicked. Some of the videos aren’t videos that were posted as tutorials in the first place, they have titles like “working on my aerial invert.”
So if you have any pole vids out in the world, you might want to click through and see if there’s anything of you being used without permission.
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There have been some stories about people being fired when “real world” bosses discovered they were pole dancers/pole instructors. It’s really a question of how conservative a world you’re about to enter. I have friends in very conservative fields who teach pole dancing, and they are simply very careful about how public the latter becomes. They don’t compete, don’t have their faces/full names plastered all over pole-related websites so they’d come up in a search, etc.
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My best advice to flow “block” is to just dance, dance, dance, dance, dance. Put on songs that make you want to move no matter what. Don’t worry about whether or not what you’re doing is a “move,” just do what feels good and keep moving–don’t let yourself stop and think!
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Coincidence has it that I wrote a blog post about how no pain, no gain is a HUGE lie we’re told.
http://unitedpoleartists.blogspot.com/2014/01/no-pain-no-gain-is-big-fat-lie.html
Please note, when I refer to dancers asking how to get around an injury, IN NO WAY was I referring to this thread. Gata’s post here was clearly not about “how can I keep using my shoulder to do all of my tricks even though it’s effed up?” and more about “my shoulder won’t stop me from doing floorwork and other fun related things while I rehab it, will it?”
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I have so many!
Layback to EG aysha to shooting star to inside leg hang to inverted thigh hold to shoulder dismount is an all-time greatest hits kind of fav.
Also love back hook spin straight into a side climb, knee hold or cupid, flip down into inside leg hang, flip body to the other side of the pole and climb over to invert again.
Ooooh, or pretty much anything that gets me to an outside leg hang that I can climb over into a spinning hood ornament. Love. 🙂
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That sounds like it could maybe be a strain in your inrercostals. Those take a LOOOOONG time to heal, in my experience anyway. Definitely see a doctor and follow any/all rehab suggestions from him/her. Good luck!
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If you really squeeze your glutes it will protect your tailbone to a great extent. I bruised my tailbone badly way back (not pole related) and it was a good 2 months before it felt right. It was probably 3 months before I could comfortably do a layback again, and that’s one of my favorite moves.
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Ooooh, yeah, someone mentioned Chalese Marie. She’s another of my very very very favorites. Tell me this isn’t crazy hot.
Warning, explicit lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGrpwwVmweMAnd then this second one is just plain fun and AWESOME. 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkx_euqAYlI -
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x2 what Kobajo84 said about bottom hand placement on the carousel spin.
In general, my best advice without seeing what you’re doing is this: check your alignment. If your wrists aren’t neutral you’re putting a lot of pressure and weight on them from a torqued position.
Also, have you been working your way into things like the carousel and inverts? Many spins aren’t necessarily beginner moves, and inverts certainly aren’t. So even if you danced before it’d be a good idea to ease into it with proper conditioning (if you’re not already).
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A Juliet spin variation, yep, teachtrinity is right on the money! 🙂 Make sure you’re not hooking your elbow too high, or your hips won’t be able to get any distance from the pole. Also, make sure your plant foot is far enough away and to the side of the pole. If you’re planted behind the pole you won’t get your outside leg/kneepit in front of the pole.
