Rachel Osborne
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I have to say I can get the spin aerial teddy 50-50! I have more success with the yoga teddy variation because that’s more bicep/side hold https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/545ad99d-7efc-47e4-98b5-646e0a9aa0eb
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I’m very hit and miss – depends on pole warmth, speed and spin. Have you tried from figurehead/hood ornament? I find
-1. reaching up back and high with the top arm,
2. Then and only then tucking-curling-tilting pelvis in with ABS OF STEEL and
pushing back against pole – and this is the crucial bit –
3. Bringing the thigh up to the hand and holding. Don’t bring hand down to grab leg. Bring leg up to where hand is waiting, having previously got itself in position with the arm reach UP high as you can, lock move.
4. At the grab moment where you use your hip flexors to draw your leg up to meet your waiting hand, drive back with your tail bone into the pole. It won’t actually be the tail but that’s the feeling, to keep the lock and stop you painfully sliding. -
Oh that’s so hard! I hope you heal up soon! Hope someone has answers for you here too x
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I just stuck up a video of how I typically practice – take an idea/move (today it was E for elbow things because I’m doing a pole alphabet challenge) and record it and just play with variations of the theme whilst dancing and spinning about, sticking in a few other tricks that occur to me as I dance. It’s pretty unstructured. I had just done an hour of very hardcore barre class though so I didn’t feel need to warm up or strength train, it was more about flow practice and experimenting.
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Leading liberal UK newspaper
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/16/mexico-parents-missing-students-refuse-to-be-forgotten (with big USA readership) so word is getting out there…Prayers for Mexico especially the families and friends of the missing ones.
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My goodness, that is horrifying. I will share your message too. Stay strong.
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Outraged reporter asking Marilyn Monroe about her nude photo shoot past
‘Were you not wearing anything?’
Marilyn: ‘I was wearing Chanel No. 5’
Reporter: ‘But didn’t you have ANYTHING on?’
Marilyn: ‘Why yes sir. I had the radio on’
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Ooooooh! Excited! Love a good armpit hold trick!
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Phoenix your training sounds really organised and effective. I need more structure in my home practice, think I will be stealing your ideas!
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At home, I warm up fast and hard (mountain climbers or similar to get body warm then roll head shoulders wrists waist hips do plies and kicks) then start freestyling. Sometimes this turns into me playing with a single move over and over, videoing its variations and entry/exit, and watching clips back while I stretch a bit, then dancing it into a freestyle, then dancing some other moves I have down into another freestyle, then stretch (not as much as I want/need) then I rush off. I have to cram my workouts in to under an hour because I have to collect my son from morning preschool. I shower and eat later once he’s home and had lunch. I try to grab a bit of foam rolling when I can, I keep the roller close at home!
I also do 4 morning pole classes which are more structured. I try to fit in yoga and stretch time in evenings but there’s not much time as I have to make dinner and after dinner I am not up for it. If husband works late I eat dinner early with son and then I have free time once son in bed to do yoga etc
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Tashpooh is your pole a new xpole chrome?
I got my new chrome xpole this summer and got the factory finish off byCleaning with boiling hot water and dawn dish soap (avoiding the x joint holes) then rubbing dry with handfuls of kitchen paper towels.
A hard rub down with a clean cloth soaked in white wine vinegar (the pole room then smelled of vinegar!)
Letting the vinegar dry on pole (open windows) then
Using a new microfibre cloth (that was never washed with fabric conditioner or machine dried as fabric conditioners make poles slippy) and isopropyl alcohol 70% in a plant mister to soak the cloth and rubbing HARD. I still do this every practice, several times.
Pole now squeaky clean.
I still don’t stick unless I warm up myself and the pole: Veena has several warm ups or I just prance about a bit in both directions, climb a bit, slide a bit, rub my hands and body on pole, do some pole pull ups and tucks.
Cold pole = dancer hits floor.
Or a cheating way to stick like glue is to pole after a long hot shower or bath.
Enjoy your pole!
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In UK brass poles in strip clubs traditionally cleaned with gin or vodka, the cheaper the better!
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http://instagram.com/p/rtFww_nWaT/
http://instagram.com/p/n8y0fBwK3a/
Those were the nicest I found on IG..
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I’ve been writing the sets from the 30 day take off on post it notes and sticking to the wall! Can’t always get wifi in pole room. You could even make a set of cards and out them in a case in your gym bag and just pull them out?
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Here you go – Polergirl made these great demo vids https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/538a7960-dedc-43f7-9cf9-2d390a9aa0eb
https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/538a7993-cc08-431a-98e9-2d470a9aa0eb
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That’s how I get in – from CAR – and my back is NOT flexible. The trick is to twist upper body out to side snd catch pole firmly in arm pit and clamp down then slide other hand with pointy trigger finger down. There are some good vids here showing CAR – flag – brass monkey hang on will find – you just skip the brass monkey bit and cartwheel off.
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Can you bow and arrow using flag grip instead and cartwheel off? I have only ever done it that way and it’s easier than the (very impressive) pic you’ve attached.
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Thanks to the awesome tips on this thread I got it: thanks SO much, especially re vid demo.
Feedback from my multiple attempts in case anyone searches site as I did looking for meathook tips: can’t do it on a cold pole at all. Both me and the pole have to be very warm to stick. So if you’re having an issue maybe check that.Also the tip about butt up head down lower than hips and fold hard at waist is very very true. If I fold hard enough in half and grab one ankle I can let go both hands. Managed to spin over 30 seconds meathook to hands free meathook, taking second hand off meant a small drop down pole but the waist lock kept me on. It is as much balance as strength.
It is very hard to breathe normally doing it.
I have to do it straight away at start of routine because it’s exhausting. -
Ha climbing! I can side climb both sides no prob but basic climb, x ankle climb, performance climb etc etc I can only do right leg front. If I need the other leg in front I just climb up right leg then switch front legs once I am up there!
I just cannot climb left leg first, I mount the pole and freeze, my body won’t cooperate. -
I wear underarmor shorts, they are so comfortable and you can roll them down and pull them up for moves where you need skin like hip holds.
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I think everyone should be v proud of themselves. 👌ðŸ‘ðŸ‘🙌 whether you’re still working through, just starting or restarting or completed. Woo! Go everyone!
And 💜💜💜 Veena for making the fantastic Take Off and Abs programmes. -
Fabulous well done!
So many great bits in the 30 days, it’s hard to know what to continue to use. I will keep going back in for inspo. -
I can so relate to this thread because I wouldn’t do any invert AT ALL apart from cross knee release whilst holding ankle for 6 months after restarting pole.
And this was because years ago as a badly-trained beginner I fell from an invert – trying to do a sort of extended butterfly in heels from a wobbly caterpillar but without any real idea of what I was doing – and only just avoided serious neck injury and that was it, no more pole for me for years. I still remember the floor rushing up to meet me…I still dream about it.
I came back to pole and was happy enough nailing complex spins, dancing and doing heavy conditioning but a basic invert, inverted crucifix, bat, caterpillar, handstand, any kind of nose to ground/pole move made me flashback and sweat with fear. I still do not like them even now; I always gemini into butterfly, not caterpillar, I’m almost always looking at the ceiling when I invert…meanwhile everyone else was dying to go upside down.
What helped me was taking the time – taking months and months – to get really strong and to really understand the mechanics of a trick before trying it. Could write an essay here about the brass monkey journey I went through but this is long enough. I have no magic trick to help you, we are all different – I’d just say that for me, I decided not to do tricks until I was certain that I was strong enough and to trust my body – and instincts – and to go super slow. I did want to do those beginner and intermediate inverts, despite the fear, but no way in hell would I try before I was ready. I had to get to a point where the frustration at not having it was stronger than the fear. Then I was ready.
And I would tell myself;
‘that was then, this is now. It’s different – you’re different, different place, differently trained muscles, you’re not going to roll the dice and get the same number every time, and you have no control over dice. You have total control of your body’ (if I didn’t have total control I shouldn’t be trying!)Pole is not easy; it’s genuinely dangerous and frequently frightening and exhausting and we push ourselves to the limits of our mental as well as physical strength: we lift ourselves mentally as well as physically, learning to fly is exhausting and it hurts.
You will break through and break your barriers down but it can only be done when it’s the right time for you. Trust yourself and know that there is no better feeling than working gently just inside your limits and getting your goals slowly and sweetly your own way, in your own time.
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You start the pole stuff after 2 weeks of conditioning BUT all the stuff you do first is actually building muscle memory and body awareness and strength so when you do actually start climbing, spinning on your pole you have a much higher safety/success rate because your body has internalised how far away to stand to mount the pole, how to grip and release so your hand slides and you can spin, how to use your shoulders right to help you stabilise yourself and so on.
It’s very clever indeed!
Don’t short change yourself by jumping ahead is my advice. Set yourself up for success by doing the Veena lessons in order. I wish I’d been taught like this when I started, would have saved me years of injury and struggle and bad habits I’m now trying to unlearn.
