Rachel Osborne
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I just had the thought that #beautifulbeginnerbasics is a really long hashtag and #polebasics or similar might work better.
Also I am happy to do this every day – but I am not an instructor like kino yoga or Veena and I feel embarrassed at the idea of people thinking I am setting myself up as some kind of expert when all I am doing is trying to improve the fundamentals of my own practice, hopefully in fun company.
Is it usual for people to expect a demo every day or the day before with an explanation? Because I’m not really qualified to do that. And with no childcare and my preschooler off school my poling time is v limited in early Jan.
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Awesome! Thanks SO much! How about it being jointly hosted by a gang of us?maybe Maravilla, Lucca, Freddie, yourself, and me and Veena too if she wants?
We probably need to agree on the content by end of today as Christmas is looming and we need to give you time to make the graphic and send it to us to post on IG…
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Ok a provisional list? Anything you want to add or take away?
1. Fireman
2. Walk
3. Body waves
4. Squat
5. Pirouettes
6. Shoulder slide
7. Easy Up
8. Kicks
9. Sit
10. Attitude spin
11. Back hook spin
12. Chair spin
13. Back bend slide
14. Slink Up
15. Spin Up
16. Tush Push
17. Flip Split
18. Leg Show
19. Step Around
20. Prance
21. Fan Legs
22. Front Hook spin
23. Carousel Spin
24. Extended Leg Spin
25. Pole Climb
26. Elbow stand
27. Crucifix
28. Plank
29. Thigh Rest
30. Cradle spin
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http://instagram.com/p/w5HdJtyHGw/ machine gun training
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http://instagram.com/p/w5xxsmPDp8/ tumble to drop splits
http://instagram.com/p/w5_j24RTTa/ Allie Kamikaze spin combo
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Welcome! It is lovely here!
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Welcome! I used to ride many years ago – I think the core control, balance and body awareness you develop in dressage will be really helpful for your pole practice. Plus the glutes and thigh muscles from riding! And of course all riders know how to fall safely hee hee! Hope you enjoy your pole adventure and the camaraderie here on this lovely site.
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Evanescence Wake Me Up would be amaaazing to dance to, comes on all lyrical emo flow tastic then BAM! I would pay to see you TWERK to that!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcdYBh3hgg
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Yes!! If I was choreographing you I would have you walk on all demure and do a very perfect, floating arms pointing toes, graceful slow typical pole dance walk pirouette and simple pole spin and dip to a slow, moody emo rock intro. Then drop squat and TWERK THE HELL of it as the music CRASHES into fast BADASS tempo. Seriously you would blow the roof off. You have amazing skills.
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Yeah prancing!
I think we used to call the leg up fold over pose ‘droopy drawers ‘ -
Thanks so much you are all so helpful! I will go shopping in App Store tonight x
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Lucca I think you’re right, combos will be too much – let’s keep it accessible. People can do the move of day and we can maybe have a weekly wild card if more advanced people want to string combos together and go nuts!
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Thinking back, the first moves I learned were
Walking round and under pole quick pirouettes
Fireman with knees together then one leg extended then pike
Back hook spin
Carousel with diamond and straight legs
Big step around the pole into back hook spin
Front hook spin and whip leg in
Chair spin
Sun wheel
Attitude/reverse attitude
Slide down into back bend
Slide into jazz splits
Tush push
Fan kick on floor
Windmill (fan kick holding pole)
Firecracker (tuck and then V legs from side pole hold)
Sexy squat
Wrap one leg round pole and bend forward pose – name escapes me
Floor develepe
High kick to back bend
Sexy crawl
Rib isolations, hip rolls
Hip dips and head rolls/hair flicks
Flatline descent
Number 7/supermarket (getting up from squat with knees together by sticking tail out and up then lifting chest and arching back up)
Slide down with back to pole and hands over head then peekaboo (open and close legs). Stripper moves – I was originally taught by a stripper back in UK over a decade ago so we learned lots of stripper stuff. Gymnastic/contemporary pole didn’t really exist then and there was no social media.Amazing I can remember any of it all! It was aaaaaages ago.
Really interested to hear what everyone else learned first.
Sorry for essay!
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I dunno what Martini is. Is it fireman with one leg extended or chair with a leg extended?
I love combo- ing beginner spins on spin pole, here is Attitude – Backhook – Chair and it went on into more variations after the IG 15 secs.
http://instagram.com/p/vljZIRFDDL/
Some IG challenges have a demo posted the day before but I don’t feel competent or organised enough to do that. Does anyone want to be the demo person? Or shall we just leave it and assume people can look it up if they don’t know the move or aren’t sure because they know it by another name?
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Cool, looks like one move per day is the way to go and let people combo/style it up or not as they wish. Now we just need to choose 31 beautiful beginner basics and off we go!
Shall we start off with Fireman as it seems to be the first spin everyone tried and it’s kind of iconic for that reason – plus it was Maravillapole’s fireman that inspired this? Any more must have/old fave moves to add? What’s that one where you stand on one leg, draping the other round the pole and bend forward from the waist?
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http://instagram.com/p/wvlYr5KBC0/ jade allegra flowerspin conbo
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http://instagram.com/p/wvoBBzKBFV/ swan into twisted split chopsticks type thingy
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^^That’s for flour free peanut butter cookies. You can put dried fruit or vegan choc chips in too. Super easy and yum – if you’re allowed eggs?
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1 cup natural peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 large egg, lightly beaten
Coarse sea salt, for sprinkling
Directions
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and place the racks in the upper and lower third of the oven.In a medium bowl, mix the peanut butter, sugar, vanilla and egg until well combined. Spoon 1 tablespoon of the mixture about 1 inch apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Flatten the mounds with the tines of a fork, making a crosshatch pattern on the cookies. Sprinkle coarse salt on top of the cookies.
Bake until golden around the edges, about 10 minutes, switching the position of the sheets halfway through baking. Transfer to racks to cool. Repeat with the remaining dough
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Actually, maybe just give ten moves a week and let people combo them up as they like or just do one or two daily? Would that be easier?
I don’t know if people prefer to do exactly what’s on the tin or if they like the creative freedom – personally I loved the Alphapole challenge because they suggested moves beginning with the letter each day but you could pick anything you wanted that starter with the day’s letter and combo it/present it/style it how you wanted, which made it really exciting [to me]. What do you think?
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Awesome! Allyson I would love it if you could do graphic. The more people help the better. How about we brainstorm moves and combo moves on the thread – eg: attitude – Backhook -chair spin or high kick – back bend) on this thread during December and then put 31 days together?
I was thinking of basic guidelines:
Can be done on static or spin
Pick a move of the two or three suggested daily or run the moves of the day all together in any order as a combo, with extra bits if you want (ie: add in an advanced move like drop into splits if you feel like it)
Some basic, key moves can come up several times during the month but in combo with different moves on different days.Maybe a sponsor could give away a pair of shorts or grip aid or something as a prize with Veena judging?
The only tricky bit is people call things different names but if we use the names on Veena gallery/lessons we can avoid confusion.
What do you think? Open to all collaborations and suggestions
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Ooh one more http://instagram.com/p/u3mJEKBXTS/ love the arms in this figurehead on spin
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Great idea!
http://instagram.com/p/wgBXRyO8eJ/ TG airwalkhttp://instagram.com/p/wHF2rsqjYL/ figurehead – gemini – goldrush
http://instagram.com/p/vlyMThPRmA/ double knee hook tumble
http://instagram.com/p/vjPP8pNlzQ/ Sitting Bird to Icarus
http://instagram.com/p/vhHR6PQAd9/ brass monkey combo
http://instagram.com/p/vZ9Q7lGnZe/ Tracee Kafer fan kick variations
http://instagram.com/p/vRJ2N6wKzr/ elbow figurehead spin
http://instagram.com/p/vB7SvESApu/ easy chopsticks
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Also you have lessons access – there’s about 30 or more combos in the routines and combos section?
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Can you say some moves/tricks/spins you can do already and maybe we can suggest ways to link them together, plus some other moves that you could work on? Example – if you can do gemini, Scorpio, superman and pike there are lots of combos based around those moves…
