Rachel Osborne
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And all the climbs?
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How about all the pole sit moves? Swan, tuck, plank, twisted plank, hello boys? A good pole sit is super useful…
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Ooh think that might be it! Think she shoulder mounted on spin, got into sailboat and let go and twister her torso to look down. And the looking up version must have been what flighter describes.
Thanks v much!
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Class today: made my fellow student do caterpillar climb and butterfly with Russian ghetto hairography! Sadly no video 🙁
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Bugsy just saw you posted here and wanted to say that I love your Twin Peaks theme/Falling choreo so much, it’s favourited on my phone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2_SiBsBVy88If I’m ever back in London I’d love to take a class of yours.
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Aha so it exists! It has been puzzling me so…
I think the lady had both feet braced/flexed and crossed, like how you do when learning CAR, for the back to pole version – same as you describe flighter – and for the no hand caterpillar one she was more braced with shin/calf crossed and flexed feetIt was on spin : I don’t think the physics would work on static. You have to lean out and away from pole whilst bracing against it I think –
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To clarify: 2 different moves, one looking up, so back to pole, one looking down and facing pole.
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I am hypermobile (although getting stiffer as I age!) knees not too bad usually but if they are playing up I lie on my back for all splits stretches. Lie on back draw one knee to chest stretching your other leg on floor straight. Pull quad towards shoulder, slowly extend leg. Point toes, flex feet, bent leg, straight leg, leg straight up, shin by nose, shin by ear, play around….
God I need to stretch now. Missed yoga for 3 weeks and really notice it.
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Yes yes and do it to this music….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKLymvwD2U&feature=kp -
Chair!
(Just replied to yr blog in more detail)
So sucks about sudden move drama, fire scare and no pole 🙁
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Also got tuck hip hold sorted out.
🙂 🙂
Bruises from CAR, thigh holds, tuck hip hold and allegra practice but this was a good pole practice weekend!
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I polekat I THANK YOU!
You rock! thanks so much for the tip about legs right up in CAR before leaning back; I got my CAR back and span in it too!
My teacher’s nice grippy 50mm pole helped too – much less ouch than 45mm🙂
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Happy happy pole freaking ass busting high kicking hip rolling fly poling birthday! Best is yet to come!
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She is just fab.
Here she is free styling/pole storming for ideas before the show.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPCcGth6hY
I love the idea of Latin/pole fusion too: we are starting out on some pole tango choreo in class and it’s so exciting.Pole mash ups are great: a dancer, some music, some imagination and the means to spin, hang and fly … No partner required. Now where can that take you?
Anywhere you damn well want to go.
Which is why pole rocks and inspiring teachers just unlock so many wonderful possibilities… -
This thread might be helpful
https://www.studioveena.com/forums/view/537f306d-8984-4c12-acde-10fb0a9aa0eb -
Don’t waste vodka lol!
I use isopropyl alcohol (surgical spirit at Boots) on my chrome – white wine vinegar also good but smelly and will make you want chips!It does depend on what your pole is made of; I’m sure someone more expert will come along and advise soon…
I wipe all the time: still breaking in new pole and use dry hands and x chalk too as I am in tropics. And it’s sweatsville here.
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Popped one up and challenging myself to reshoot in a week’s time after working on it all week!
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My go to fast meals:
Minced/ground lamb/beef/pork or steamed white fish mashed with fork, egg yolk, handful fresh or dried herbs, shape into patties or balls, fry in butter, serve with microwaved sweet potato which I then cut into wedges and toss in the fry pan once I’ve taken the cooked patties out, with steamed broccoli or green beans or bag spinach ( or Birdseye microwave steam veg bags if desperate for time). Takes 12 mins from scratch.Sliced or ribboned courgettes/zucchini (use potato peeler) tossed in hot butter served with stir fried frozen shrimp and tin salmon/tuna/crab plus lemon juice and raw almonds.
Pastry-less mini quiche: mix eggs and dollop cream, add chopped left over veg, ham, bacon etc, plop into greased muffin tray and bake til set. Also nice cold.
Left over rotisserie chicken, shredded. Chop onion, fry in coconut oil with Tom yum or curry spices, add chicken, any veg eg: mushrooms, chopped broccoli, sugar snap peas, peppers, stir fry, pour in tin full fat coconut milk, cook ten min, serve with bag of spinach.
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Hi Ali
Sounds yum! I know you said you’d prefer not to read just hang out here but it can be quite hard to take control and change your way of eating and work out exactly what’s right for you without having a handle on it – I found
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/low_carb_diets and my fitness pal invaluable in the first few months. I worked out that I lost weight on under 60g carbs a day, then stayed losing 1lb week whilst building muscle at 100-150g a day but I stress it is different for everyone.I also need a lot of fat and protein as I’m 5’7 and training 5 days a week. You aren’t me so my exact diet might not work the same!
But the paleo/primal/ basics are easy to understand; so having a look at any of the sites mentioned – marks daily apple, rob Wolfe site, nom nom paleo, ancestral chef etc will help not just with recipes! No grain sugar or processed, eat food that would be recognisable to someone who lived 500 years ago, lots of water, lots of play, lift heavy things (like your own weight on a pole!), lots of colourful veg, easy on sugary fruit, protein with every meal, embrace fat – fat makes you full and is necessary for health. So use lots of butter (kerrygold is great), olive oil and coconut oil, eat the crispy chicken skin, the golden fat on the chop – and don’t eat the breadsticks!
A good book is Escape the Diet Trap by Dr John Briffa. Good luck and enjoy your day!
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Wow great to hear about other people’s experiences/ interest. I don’t talk about it much normally because I think diet bores are tiresome and some of the evangelical paleo/cross fit zealotry can be off putting. I find it a very easy and simple way to eat now but at first I logged my food on my fitness pal (free tracker that tells you how many g of carbs, fat, protein etc) to get an idea and did a lot of reading. For me getting over the idea that breakfast had to be cereal based and eaten before doing anything else was a game changer: when I exercised early then had brunch ( something like scrambled eggs and spinach, or yogurt with nuts and seeds and berries) I started ripping through visceral abdominal fat and getting lean.
I would then eat a huge salad with chopped avocado and protein like tinned tuna or cold chicken or feta at lunch and be full and energised til dinner – more protein like salmon or meat or shrimp – and loads of colourful veg, with home made pesto, or coconut milk and oil and curry spices, or garlic butter. I carried a bag of raw and salted nuts and dried apricots about if I needed to snack but was rarely hungry.
Such a change from when I had muesli or toast for breakfast, and a salad wrap/ fruit/ sugary yog for lunch, fruit snack then pasta or rice with a pathetically small, fat free bit of protein and veg for dinner. It was a ‘healthy low fat diet’ according to received wisdom but I was exhausted, grumpy, lethargic and had huge pregnant looking distended tum, with crap hair.
Some people feel great on low fat/lots of grain but it didn’t agree with me at all!
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Maybe we should start a paleo/primal/poler thread shoogstanley? I’ve been amazed how well it’s made me look and feel – and yeah, energy and strength levels are so different.
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Hello, I’m 43 and was 160lb until a year ago. Switched to low carb/primal – cut grain and sugar out, upped fat, protein and veg and now 125lb. Good websites: nom nom paleo, marks daily apple, mumsnet low carb forums.
Did a lot of strength training – Jillian Michaels DVDs good for home, cut body fat to 18%.
Typical day eating: full fat Greek yog with nuts and berries, chicken avocado spinach salad with olive oil, lamb and feta meatballs with big salad and tzatziki/ steak and green beans/ prawn stir fry, green tea, masses of water, dry white wine or vodka slimline/soda water and lime.It works for me but everyone is different. Good luck 🙂
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Sounds v exciting! Good luck 🙂 love your art
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Also look at the Veena gallery!
