Rachel Osborne
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Including Pleasers!
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If you are near London, Camden Market/Camden Lock has lots of alternative/fetish wear shops with good platform heels and boots 🙂
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Yay me too 🙂
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Hi everyone
Well have just been to see chiro who wants me to come back next week; says my whole neck back especially right shoulder and chest is in lock down – he released my neck which I think will help with headaches, recommended 3000mg of Msm supplement and glucosamine sulph. Also told me to try a new pillow and build in more recovery time for muscle repair, and keep foam rolling and book sports massage to release fascia.So that’s all quite positive and am doing 2 full no training days back to back to see if that helps.
I think he was quite intrigued by what I was doing; I was cagey and said gymnastics on a vertical bar plus yoga and ballet. Explained a bit about inverting, scapula use and lots of hand stand type stuff and points of contact putting heavy loading on joints.
A good reminder that sometimes stretching and rolling isn’t enough and we may benefit from a body mechanic doing an MOT!
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Sounds awesome please share!
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Hi Phoenix
Yeah I think I will take 2 full days off and just rest and eat protein rich things. Not injured as ab ache gone today but just over training I think. Wake with headache every day and forearms permanently bit achy. It’s hard trying to find balance: this week my schedule was a bit too heavy. Last 7 daysThursday yoga. Good for flexi but very heavy on forearms, lots of down dogs.
Friday ballet booty barre: good lower body, included weights and cardio and a million plies.
Saturday acro pole/conditioning hour then hour floor work
Sunday pole jam: floor work and messing with inverts: freestyle and stretching
Monday 1:1 heavy 45 min doing allegra, thigh hold, planche stuff and switch combos
Tuesday 1:1 more inverts and headstands then conditioning and splits stretching evening
Wednesday Skype with Shoog
Today – going to skip yoga and just swim a bit
Friday – booked to see chiro to see if headaches are mechanical problem and can be sorted out by him, if not will see GP.Assuming all good will be back training at weekend with acro pole and dance class Sat and freestyle jam on Sunday. Might leave Allegra practice and home free styling til middle of next week although am dying to work on leg switches as they are not tidy at all.
How are you holding up? Do you think my schedule is a bit heavy? What’s your training schedule like (nosy) 😉
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Thank you!
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Whoops here is video https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/53d85852-9e54-460f-87df-3ada0a9aa0eb
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Thanks guys.
Hmmm. Well, I have made a video of it in case that helps. It’s a bit shonky but at least you can see what’s going on. I don’t think it’s Firebird (gosh how gorgeous that move is).I take it back about not being twisted/out if square. I am totally twisted like a jade or machine gun.
I am still a bit stumped. Needs tidying and a pretty exit (any ideas for that?) but I like it, whatever it is.
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It feels similar to a machine gun but less tilted, I twist hips in jade and machine gun so they’re out of square but in that trick you have to be square.
It’s not that different to lady planche but that has two hands on pole; in what I was doing it is arm wrapped round leg and squeezing hip and side into pole. The hand on the pole is basically just there to provide a lock to squeeze bicep into leg and leg into pole.
It’s as painful as a teddy or yogini.
Thanks! Maybe it’s a machine gun planche lol.
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Those lessons are awesome Veena!
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I practice doing them really slowly (see 2:02 min in vid https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/53b75b60-2904-4591-ab52-310d0a9aa0eb) and I use my dominant hand highest whichever direction I’m going, plus use my lower core/abs a lot. Slow straddle elbow stands up against pole helps with ab training and hip flexor strength for this and many other moves. Also doing ballet developee.
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Thanks Polergirl. I call the top right straddle hip hold or hands free chopper, would you call top left straddle hip hold as well? The one with knee drawn up back leg extended, not inverted? It’s a bit like a half jade but not upside down
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Hmmm hang on, having consulted Veena lesson that is not an Eros. Wrong leg. So I don’t know what that is either. Can anyone help???
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Here’s a lady doing a nice combo with stargazer in https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/b76f4890-bce4-11df-856f-001b214581be
Ok splits up pole might be bit ambitious but you could pole sit or just pole hold and extend a leg, then slide down. -
Enjoy your new pole! 🙂
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My 2014 xpert spins like mad when I mount and throw shapes etc but if I just spin in with my hands it moves then stops. It is my weight and pushing off that makes it spin and I control the ride by tucking in close (to go faster) or throwing out an arm or leg to slow the spin
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Had a great class with her Tues and she was talking about how important it is to use all the move, all the space, even for the small quick transitional moves. Fully extend, style it, finish it – even a pole pirouette before changing direction. Complete the turn with a hair toss, lean fully away before turning back in, take the movement all the way through to the tips of your fingers, don’t just suggest it – fully show it, own it.
My ballet teacher used to say the same; I think it is one of the things that takes dancing to a new level and I must try to put it into practice more. I have learned so much from all my teachers of pole and there is so much to keep learning.
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So that’s a resounding yes then 🙂
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My chrome is slippy until it’s warm, and I mean WARM – I rest my cheek on it at start if practice and even in a warm room it’s cool. I climb up and down, hug my body to it, slide up and down in pole hold, for about ten mins, til it feels warm (and so am I). Then it is noticeably grippier. I can’t just get on and invert – I will fall. But putting the time in to warm it up pays off, no amount of grip aid or wiping can get round the need to do this.
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Absolutely!
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Here she is again
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_NOQhftBA
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This was the Sexy Back first attempt
https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/53cd68b1-7ae0-4e9d-ac6e-1db00a9aa0eb
And this was the carpet burn on my chin from doing body waves on the floor!
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Ow!
