[Rin Rin]

Thank you both for you great suggestions! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif The thing about the bigger your shape, the slower you’ll go was great advice! I guess that’s pretty easy to understand and should be common sense but I probably wouldn’t have come up with it on my own lol https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif I’ve never had a problem with dizziness (in anything) so that’s not a big problem for me when I switch the pole to spinning. My main problems are these:

1) Grip: My problem with grip seems to be this – when I’m on the static pole, I’m used to going into a spin and letting my hand slide around the pole as I swing into it from a walk around, but when the pole is spinning, I guess I would basically have to stop walking?? and just grip it and then take off? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_scratch.gif I’m not quite sure, but my main problem seems to be that because I’m used to letting that hand slide around the pole for a spin, I go into it on a spinning pole and my hand slides (even though it should just be gripping) and I don’t catch my grip on it until a split second after I leave the ground and that puts my wrist and elbow at awkward angles they shouldn’t be in. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif Like I said, I’m not quite sure how to fix that unless I completely stop walking around, find my grip, and then push off. I’m having trouble going into spins on spinning mode from walking around. Is it generally not a good idea to go into moves from walking while on a spinning pole?

2) Momentum: I know what the problem is here – I’m used to swinging my leg way around to get the proper momentum for a spin on a static pole but when you try that on a spinning pole, you go way too fast and lose control. But when I just kind of push off, it looks awkward and not that graceful… Is there some sort of happy medium that would give me the graceful look without sending me flying? lol

[Rin Rin]

I also record myself with my digital camera and then take still frames from the videos. To do that, I open the videos with Quicktime, take it to the frame that I like as a picture, then hit ctrl+c to copy that image, open up Paint, hit ctrl+v to paste it, and then save it. When you open it by itself later, it should just be a regular picture in Windows Photo Gallery or whatever program opens your pictures. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif