Rachel Osborne
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I seriously would bite the extra cost bullet and get the Veena lessons, for a month if you can’t afford a year. An injury or doing things the wrong way will be expensive and discouraging and lead to you not getting much out of your investment.
Congrats on taking up an awesome fitness discipline!
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If it’s a ten foot ceiling you’ll need the permanent mount for the x-pole – drill 4 holes into joist/beam – then use a dab of whatever to fill holes when you move out.
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Here is someone doing pike to superman
https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/50fccc23-4018-4d5c-bfbf-362f0ac37250
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You can get into superman from pike hip hold, I wonder if that’s easier on spin? If you go gemini – tuck- pike, the tuck will speed spin up then the pike slow it down and the superman will slow it further…
Or from gemini and place top hand over gemini leg and flip your hips but I think that stops the spin usually. -
Bedroom, which makes my friends go ‘wah hey nudge nudge’ but it’s because there’s space for it there, and also space for the weights bench and bar bells, foam rollers, yoga mats etc. It’s not that the pole makes our bedroom like a sexy boudoir (although my new disco lights are an attempt at ambience) – it’s more that our bedroom looks like a fitness studio with a bed in it.
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Aaaaaaaanyway, the idea was bring legs down in straddle whilst still inverted, draw legs together pointing toes bend one knee drop into lunge and reverse attitude/stag to ground do leg show.
I did the worst ‘stand ever then was hijacked by excited damp small climbing person who escaped his bath and saw new disco lights and got v excited so what I was trying to convey may be somewhat unclear in the vid.
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I have a possible idea I need to do bedtime stories and bath and stick small boy in bed then will video it.
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Are you balancing against the pole or doing it free range in the middle of the floor?
If against pole you’re not allowed to pull up by doing a CAR thigh lock? Sorry just trying to get head round the rules… -
Sometimes I think pole is really flipping
complicated and you need to be quite scientifically minded and strategic to work out what the jeff is going on, especially when you’re upside down with your legs in the air:-/
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Yes but when you are upside down it all stops making sense!
I’m very right sided so let’s say I hold pole right hand high and go round clockwise. I am going forwards. Then I spin climb and aerial invert and hook my right leg into Scorpio I’m not fighting the pole spin direction; I’m going with it. So – forwards.
If I go into Gemini with right leg hook I have to turn AGAINST the pole direction to hook so I’m going backwards.Which is what I was doing for ages as I like to hook with right but I also like to spin to the right. And it was therefore much harder.
Whereas the tipping back into helicopter thing means I can go into gemini without fighting pole spin as I’m going into it facing backwards (when I’m upright)
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Hollywood helicopter combo here
https://www.studioveena.com/videos/edit/5404e11a-b328-4b86-b3a7-72560a9aa0eb -
I have 70% rubbing alcohol in a plant mister and I spray a microfibre cloth and run down the pole with it. I also spritz my hands after washing with dish liquid and before applying Dry Hands. If my hands are greasy after cooking, putting sun lotion on my child etc I wash my hands with veggie wash then spritz alcohol to cut through grease.
Antiperspirant sprayed on palms then washed off after 5 mins sometimes works if it’s very humid.
And climbing/spinning/sliding all over the pole for ten mins to warm the pole (and me) up us essential. Cold pole – no grip no matter how much grip aid I put on.
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I really want to vid a fab spin combo I learned this weekend to show you a great way to change direction or just tip back into a spin v from a helicopter via pole under arm pirouette via Hollywood but I’ve had 2 glasses wine and am covered in lotion so it will have to wait.
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To understand forwards/backwards, I work it out this way; if the pole was my dance partner holding my arm/elbow/side/knee/whatever, which way would I be spinning? Away from him/her or towards him/her?
I don’t know if that makes sense now I’ve written it!
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Lucca awesome post.
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I am going to delete the pics if nobody else is doing their before and after shots!
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It’s usually a sign of an over tightened x pole.
Try slightly loosening it so it’s not braced so tight against ceiling. X joints should be equally tightened and make sure the little line and key symbol at base are lined up if a 2014 model. You can contact x pole for advice too. -
Just found a bunch of Cleo vids including 5 favourite ways to invert (all on spin) which has some great ideas. I think it was Lina who told me Scorpio spins work forwards and Gemini backwards and you can see Cleo working that rule…fabulously!
http://www.poledancevideos.com.au/my-favourite-ways-to-invert/
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All done!
Before and after.
Thanks Veena and everyone else who did it for the inspiration. 🙂
I am actually heavier a month later but much stronger and still fit same jean shorts so maybe I muscled up a bit?
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^ like x hundred 🙂
Want to do celebratory sm ‘yes! Yes! Up and over!’ vid challenge next week? Am on same page THANKS Veena.
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One more day left…:)
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I tend to go round and round the same way so I try to forward think it a bit and start off with a combo going the other way. Example: tuck spin into thigh rest/apprentice sequence, then dismount and make shapes against pole/on floor, then remount and go my preferred way which lets me do my usual swan to car, back to plank, or gemini to butterfly/gemini to jade/pike/tuck blah blah on my right (dominant side).
I’m working on some combo choreo which can be done going the other way; Scorpio works best spinning forwards and gemini works spinning backwards.
I find I do the same combos every time which is is boring. So I think taking time to pre think is a v good idea.
Glad to hear you’re dream-dancing again!
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Permanent mount will make 4 x small screw holes which you can easily fill in with a dab of whatever…ceiling dome may leave a mark that looks like a shadow. There are threads on ceilings and x-poles here – worth searching? The main thing is to get it securely under a ceiling stud. If it’s not positioned right it not only runs the risk of damaging the ceiling but of injuring you, possibly badly.
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Well if you ordered the TG 45 m x pole you can take it up and down as you like. It is a bit of a hassle to get it straight though; a permanent mount might make it easier?
Do you live in a shared space? So you’re shy about practising where there’s others who might watch? Or do you have a space but not enough space to move around the pole? You need to be able to touch with your hand and walk round with other arm outstretched and not hit walls/furniture.
