Rachel Osborne
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I just did a freestyle vid which features hat fail, backwards roll fail, shoulder mount fail and jade fail all in under 3 minutes! 😀
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Well I gave it a whirl https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/53cd3e2c-17b0-4908-bc2a-18340a9aa0eb
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Handstands, ugh, I find them super hard. Loads of people of all levels do.
Your teacher, ugh, rude and unhelpful.
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I think that would be very encouraging and levelling. Good idea!
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Well I had a try at it last night, having done my homework with all your great tips and also this thread recommendation from another forum (tip off via email from a Veena poster)
https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?169709-The-Instructional-Video-Thread
Had a good old roll about on floor in nice undies and heels and kept tricks minimal but lots of slow spins eye contact and hip dips and circles, leg show stuff and my husband was pleasantly surprised and very complimentary! He is used to me upside down sweating away in sports gear so had no idea I had been studying the sensual side 🙂I will try and make a vid one morning this week to get feedback from you experts at being foxes. Thanks again – not bad for first go!
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🙂 never hooped but well done!
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No. Some beginners have splits and some advanced dancers will never have splits – but advanced dancers have skills, strength, technique and experience to chain combos and perform difficult moves – with suitable safe adaptations for their body limits as needed.
I got my splits back 10 weeks after restarting pole. I was still freaked by basic invert and unable to spin one handed, reverse grab or climb 4 months after restarting. I’m still intermediate – with splits. Can do splits up pole and what have you, yes got some advanced stuff down but chain advanced moves or execute a competent superman? Nope, not yet.
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Omg that was SUCH a good talk! Thanks so much (am bit ill so in bed otherwise would do celebration hip circles). Thank you 🙂
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Thank you thank you all!
It’s a no pole day for me so guess what I will be avidly watching til bedtime?
Sexy poling video recommendations from you lot!! -
I was taught to invert badly and dangerously years ago: endless injuries. And one day, a bad fall and no more pole for years.
Then re taught with correct form: heaps of pole crunches bringing knees to elbows whilst holding pole (so how you go into a straddle) and getting stronger and holding longer and doing it with straight legs until one day up and into a straddle. Then into basic invert.
Also lying on floor on back holding pole lifting legs up and down in straddle/to basic invert featured heavily. Pole pull ups and carousel kicks. Spinning and dance to work on posture and coordination as well as strength (don’t underestimate how much strength it takes to perform spins with control and grace)
I was very happy to build core/shoulder/arm and back strength this way. When I was back inverting it was easy, I had muscle memory, strong muscles and total confidence. Progression to intermediate tricks was fast and safe. The months of training paid off. No inversion for class mates or a photo online is worth a rib sprain or head/neck injury.
Be safe and be brave: tell her. And do what’s right for your body when it’s right.
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Thanks ladies! I’ve done chair classes for about a year but always to tight choreography never freestyle; I stopped class a few months back, must try again or get my chair out. Problem is I’m happy doing any burlesque or contemporary choreo, using hats, shoes, parasols, scarves, props etc; the problem is my husband isn’t very impressed by my show girl stuff – he thinks it’s cool but not actually a turn on.
I want to do something sexy and sinuous and frankly, stripper-ish – instead of looking like a Broadway audition doing high kicks and flinging my hat and shirt in the air.
Althea is good, do you have any Veena user or youtube inspiration?
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Just looked again and she’s using forearm too.
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I use forearm to brace against pole (like performance climb) – this stops the ankle grinding pain as most of weight taken in upper body.
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Thanks Veena!
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I think it’s just a pike hip hold variation, open legs not closed – with body twisted to utilise full hip/side lock and release arms. You don’t have to hold ankles, it was just somewhere to put hands to make the lines nice and increase hip hold security.
I’d vid but have had 3 glasses of wine so bad plan…
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I find pics of tricks a bit pointless; I get excited to see a beautiful set of moves whether that’s simple stuff done gracefully or dazzling tricks. I want to see it as part of a dance, how it flows, how the dancer got in and out of it and how it was used to express something to music.
I get motivated to work hard on simple things like flatline Scorpio if I can see how it is the launching pad for a beautiful extended move, or the foundation of an elegant combo. If it can’t be danced into and out of again I am not interested.
So tutorials, clips of dances are motivating.
‘Look at me doing some crazy thing’ – meh.This Marion Crampe clip has really motivated me recently – some amazing tricks but the grace and lyricism in the simple movements is actually more inspirational for me https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152492465939870&id=97193519869&ref=stream
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Ha yes it was in with his train set track extensions :-/ now locked in my underwear drawer. Well, good luck with it. How incredibly tiresome.
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Sorry those are extensions not x joints – I took 2 short extensions to 9feet off and used one larger extra extension with supplied x joint. So can’t show x joint without disassembling pole. But packaging and hex keys should be same?
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Would photo of my hex keys and spare x joint help?
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Does one x joint 7” one /180mm one have one half longer than other and arrow marked on it? This goes at tip with arrow pointing up.
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I would need to take mine apart to check if it’s same as yours. Did you use hex keys alternately in slots so half turn one hole half turn other hole, repeat, repeat, gently opening/closing rather than fully contact/expand one end then tackle the next?
Sorry not explaining too well
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It looks like my new (June) chrome x pert
Base not plastic wrapped, but pole was.
Black hex keys, expAnd/contract on x joints.It’s genuine far as I can see…did you get the instruction booklet with it? Seriously take it to bed and read it, after watching the vid. Stuff on there that’s not on vid.
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That’s a good idea! Thanks Lucca.
I find I have no appetite straight after training then hungry about an hour+ later by which time am usually busy driving to collect son from preschool or whatever. I guess I could stick a hard boiled egg in a thermos flask to keep it cool and stick it in my purse… -
I have never found a protein drink that doesn’t make me gag (thick smoothies and milk shakes also make me gag, it’s a sensory thing) but I know I really need to increase protein as am training 5+ times week and am now very low body fat and starting to lose muscle mass. 🙁 I do not want to lose any weight.
So my question is…
Can I just eat a few big handfuls of raw nuts for protein after training instead and wash it down with water and a banana? I really don’t have time to prepare special drinks or snacks after training as am usually rushing out door still wet from shower afterwards…nuts, water and banana are transportable.
