Rachel Osborne
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Ooh! We just did one!
Simple stuff done with conviction and full extension looks brilliant. Hard stuff you can’t hold or aren’t comfy in looks bad. Check Pinterest or similar for lovely poses.From seeing our class pics…
Passé legs from pole hold or split/bracket
Basic or twisted plank with POINTED toes and one arm reaching gracefully away
Hello boys shot from back
Basic Gemini arching like mad with free leg parallel to floor
Swan with dramatic arms
Elbow stand bow and arrow
Pencil (not inverted pencil)
Strong butterfly
Tuck/bomb
Simple, pretty pike or fireman spin pose ( you won’t be spinning so just the pose)All looked really beautiful despite not being as hard as other moves – you need to be able to hold the pose for aaaaaages while the pic is taken and remember to drop shoulders and smile – scary grrr pole face detracts no end. Look away from camera if you can’t stop the furious concentrated face.
Also using hats, heels, floaty scarves and wind machine can look incredible. And using black and white makes it all very classy. Enjoy, it’s great to have pro pics. -
Well it was particularly good advice 😉
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Club thanks so much for that fantastically detailed reply – you have great style in shoe picking! I was hovering over Funtasm but will take advice that they’re more flimsy costume shoes…love pleaser so will have a good rummage online through their current selection. Thanks once more 🙂
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I tried again with my teacher and got it! I needed to
A. Reaaaaaaally drop my leg back heavy and open hips as Lina suggested. Actually grabbing my foot and arching/cambre back/chest helped loads
B. stop turning out my leg (ex ballet auto pilot thing) and roll hip in to get inner thigh locked on
C. Really use side point of contact below waist. And look at floor/wall behind – another great tip!It was easier on non Dom side as presumably I had less unhelpful muscle memory working against me so could think more clearly about what I was doing.
Thanks v v much ladies!
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I am sorry you are grieving your mother’s passing. So hard. Be gentle with yourself, grief for those we love can be shattering.
Can you express some of what you feel in dance? Find a memory of play, or comfort, or a feeling you associate with your mum and just let your body feel it for a while?
Or if you need to pause from your old interests and just listen to music or walk outside instead, that can be very healing.
Pole, music, dance, song will always be there and you know where they are, when you’re ready. Wishing you peace. -
They are v sassy! I am no good at dancing in thigh highs though, I get stuck in knee hooks and end up inelegantly peeling myself off whilst flapping like a stuck fly in syrup.
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Thanks Lina I will really focus on that. It’s silly that I can shoulder mount and (sometimes) do allegra and ariel straddle and and spinning butterfly and other hard stuff but I can’t do a decent, basic, simple Scorpio [embarrassed and annoyed at self]
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Hooray more prime polers checking in!
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Thanks 🙂
Still total fail at basic Scorpio. I can’t get the leg grip right and end up slowly slithering down ripping my inner thigh to bits as soon as I release hands. Anyone got any tips? I am watching clips and Veena lesson but can’t get leg doing it – long or short leg hook, it still ends up just lying on the pole while I clamp furiously with back of arm and abs. -
HOWEVER I did gemini, reached up and over knee, almost did superman then flipped and went into gemini on the other leg woo hoo which I totally couldn’t do last week so just goes to show it is worth persevering with argh moves. Thanks ladies for your stories of battling on 🙂 we shall prevail
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Today I am happy with gemini but inverted crucifix, hand stands ugh argh scaredy cat 🙁
Something about being in a straight line upside down looking at the floor is freaking me OUT.
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Hello! I’m only a returning intermediate but I love the slow flow balletic style and am currently working on spinny pole choreo to a lyrical piano piece which I hope will be tidy enough to upload soon. I get most excited by emotional content and honesty in dance and accessing the painful, heartfelt lyrical range is often more moving and engaging (to me) than the sassy, sensual performance style – though I’m in awe of those who can grind and pop with charisma!
There is something fabulously subversive about taking a dance style associated traditionally with Look At Me Being SEXY and making it about other stuff. Pain. Rage. Melancholy. Doubt. Etc.
Then again I love classical ballet that is all about raging passion and desire! Mix it up I say lol.
So anyway welcome and I look forward to seeing your work 🙂
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Sorted out my Gemini at last yay. At least my right knee grip is finally there…
Next up a better, stronger Scorpio.
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It doesn’t come with screws: you select based on what material you’re attaching it to eg masonry, steel, etc
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These
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No experience to share but just wanted to applaud you for dancing back after what must have been a horrible scary painful time 🙂 well bloody done
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It’s not easy. All I can say is, try it for ten days: factor in adequate rest and more protein,take 1-2 full days off, and see if it improves your dancing and strength. You don’t have to stop moving: just stop compulsive moving and try to move with joy and feel satisfied and exhilarated rather than driven. Put on a song you love and dance – no tricks, throw your hair, make lovely shapes, roll your hips.
Stretch gently, then enjoy a warm bath and massaging oil into your strong muscles.
Walk for an extra mile in comfortable shoes and wearing colours that make you feel lovely, stop for a drink at a new cafe.
Tuck yourself into bed with clean sheets and your favourite book/magazine/music.
Try some yoga in the darkness with just a candle.
Let your body feel joy in moving, walking, spinning, flying, curling, lifting. The more you release into joy now and let go of the pressure of trying to chase an imagined perfect future which isn’t real the more you will fly.
I am talking to myself as much as you.
I want to be some of the dancers posting here so bad. My videos are never good enough. I look so critically at myself, I judge so harshly.But when I listen to the music and my body I forget to criticise and the joy is there and it is wonderful: I wish you joy.
Ok enough of the essay! Good luck lady!
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…oops! You look FANTASTIC
If you are looking at yourself and not seeing that you are an athlete and that you look great and that your body and what it can do is something to be proud and excited about then you might need to talk about this belief with someone experienced in helping people with low self esteem and self-image.
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‘And you know what ?
I am not even slim or fit or strong. I just feel fat (well, not that fat but I used to be slimmer.)’I have just watched you performing a series of advanced pole moves that require SIGNIFICANT strength and fitness. You are clearly, obviously fit, strong and in great shape. You are not fat, you l
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http://www.active.com/articles/know-the-signs-of-unhealthy-exercise-addiction
I found this article very useful; I was over-training at the start of the year and using all my spare time to exercise – and then saw my performance get worse because I wasn’t allowing for recovery time to build and repair the muscles I was training.
At the same time my diet was too strictly controlled and I wasn’t getting enough protein and carbs to fuel the heavy training schedule I was on.
It was all about control and seeking perfection. But nothing can be perfect when it is so out of balance.
When I dropped some HIIT and strength training in favour of yoga, and dropped some other dance training in favour of rest, and adopted an 80/20 approach to diet – so eating great 80% of the time but having a ham and cheese croissant if I really wanted it – my pole improved! I could concentrate better, I got my shoulder mount and my strength and flexibility got much better. And I enjoyed it all more.
See if the article sounds familiar. If it does, maybe talk to an experienced trainer about a proper revised schedule with better balance, time for recovery and a diet to nourish and strengthen you. And remember our bodies were designed to find joy in movement and rest and leisure – not punishment – it’s all about balance. Good luck x
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My shin, after doing a power climb on a new, slippy pole this week spinning too fast!
Be careful and extend a leg or arm out to slow yourself if going too fast – tucking in makes you go faster, like a figure skater in a spin.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0oStQg4kNMA
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Shortie
What about Luna Belladonna?
Belladonna means beautiful lady; it’s also a plant which causes the skin to flush, heart to race and pupils dilate – mimicking the effects of sexual excitement. Elizabethan ladies used it to look beautiful – it’s a deadly poison in large doses.
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V cool by the way 😉
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Great thread.
Barley Keswick is pet/st – hmmmm.
If I was a drag queen I would like to have 2 personas: Juanita Maneater, a feisty Latina housewife and Helena Handcart, an upperclass Englishwoman who doesn’t give a rat’s ass and is always drunk.[has discussed this too much with camp gay friends]
If I had a performance name? Liberty Spinner.
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Top one looks like closed Scorpio (variation)?
No idea second one!
