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“the muscle mass of a 4 year old who couldn’t tear their way out of a paper bag.” LOL
Yeah, I’ve heard everything from I’m too skinny to be careful, you’re starting to look like a man. F U buddy. We all both men and woman come in lot’s of shapes and sizes. I use to wish I had a short muscular body, I just liked how it looked, but now I display my string bean(ness) proudly.
We work hard as pole dancers and no matter what shape our body takes we are awesome.
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I love my 40! I find anything that uses hand grips the 40 really is nice, so it may be a good option for home use since it’s always important to feel secure. You really shouldn’t have too much problem switching between the studio 45 and home 40, it might be nice to be able to use both. I have all sizes and 40 is my fav, but it’s nice to use the 45 too from time to time.
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Welcome! You’ve come to the right place!
1) For static spins it’s about timing, once you understand the foot placement, pivot and timing it will flow well. I teach is with a pivot foot and swing leg. Here’s the Back Hook Lesson https://www.studioveena.com/lessons/view/51a0e56e-6920-4ee0-a931-53d80ac37250
2)As far as holding while lifting legs, that is matter of building strength in the upper body, core (including hip flexors) and giving yourself time to remember technique. Most things with pole take time. The Sexy Legs and Abs routine would help with that along with the Lower Body Routine!
There are a ton of lessons and programs to help you with your practice including everything you have questions for. All lessons are placed in order from easier to harder and they are place in a way that allows you to build strength to help you avoid injury.
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Are you talking about becoming a stripper? There are bunch of topic on this if you want to use the Search box, you will find more help 🙂
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Here a link for the first interview. https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/9579b164-b87d-11df-856f-001b214581be Hope this one works!
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I started in August 2007. There were 2 forums I knew of, I was asked to leave one when I became pregnant and the other was pretty unfriendly towards me, as I was a fast learner and they didn’t seem to care for that. Everything I said was shut down, challenged, made fun of or disregarded by the main members. Back then I also had to create a new YT channel after I became pregnant as other dancers began flagging my videos and harassing me. It was a small group of petty women, thankfully there are far more people participating in pole now and although you still see bitch fights over what pole should be, in general, new pole dancers are welcomed by others!
When I started learning in 07 I printed off photos from a website (I wish I could remember the name) and taught myself from those. Then I discovered YT and found Tara Karina, Jamilla, Candy Cane (spelling may be wrong) and some others who I don’t recall their name. There were not tutorials for pole on YT that I knew of, (other than a few from Candy Cane that were off a DVD) so I just watched and figured it out for myself. I started SV soon after finding YT and I could already do a handspring and cartwheel mount… at the time it was impressive. lol
From the beginning of Studioveena in 2009 I’ve taken the stance that pole is 3 things. Art, sport and exotic. Sometime a mix! https://www.studioveena.com/forums/view/304
About a year in to starting SV the most advanced trick I knew of was a shoulder mount flip to drop split https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/b6e2adc0-c3b2-11df-bc90-001b21721e0c and all spins were still considered “beginner” even reverse grab…not by me tho!!!!!
Unlike most other polers back in the day, I came from a personal training back ground and not an exotic dancer background. My focus as a teacher has been on injury prevention and strength building, but not necessarily only trick pole, I need the dance in pole. My personal focus was usually on the artistic and often sexy side. In fact, my FIRST ever YT upload, 9 years ago, the first comment I ever had was that they liked my moves but my dancing and music was too raunchy for pole. This was at the beginning of the “pole is for fitness movement”. So I deleted it and uploaded later with a new song…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tGj__eBZIE&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2tGj__eBZIE&has_verified=1 I still wish I had just left the original video post, but at the time I wanted to be accepted in this group of pole dancers. I’ve since learned not to change who I am for others.
There were not certifications for pole when I started. To my knowledge I was the first to teach that strength building moves should be taught first before moves like spins. I was also the first to create a method using my theory of teaching moves like pole hold and pole sits first to build strength. I believe I was the first (online anyway) to suggest we do off pole conditioning and strength work for shoulders and such, to prevent injury and prepare for static spins. As far as I know I was the first to interview pole dancers both famous and beloved SV members! https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/9579b164-b87d-11df-856f-001b214581be. SV was the first website with more than just a forum and chat. We were the first to offer members a place to upload videos instead of just link them. We were the first to have a fully mobile website. We are still the only online studio that has all lessons placed in progressive order and includes related lessons below.
Now that pole is well known and mostly accepted, gymnasts, dancers, and contortionists have taken it to elite levels. It’s amazing and inspiring, but makes it hard for instructors to explain why some things are best left to elite pros because of how quick things have changed. That’s part of why I wrote the Veena method! Pole shouldn’t wreck your body it should strength it and challenge your mind and soul by helping women and men tap into the sexy side from time to time too!
Pole is still very fragmented, there are still tons of names for the same move and leaders in the industry often ignore each other instead of working together.
We are making pole more complex by assuming everyone needs to learn everything. Instead we need to keep sending out the message that there are pole fundamentals, and these are the important moves. From those you move on to variations and elite levels. We also need to continue to tell students that there’s no level you need to reach in order to enjoy the benefits of pole.
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Absinthe!! If you liked Zumanity see Absinthe…it my new fav and the venue is small and it’s basically like vintage, naughty, circus!
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We’ve had a booth there and I taught a workshop as well a few yrs back. It was great meeting so many of our members and there’s lots to do not just workshops! If we happen to be in town around that time I might pop in for a day. There’s hiking in Red Rock Canyon, Mt Charleston, and Lake Mead too!
Grayeyes, that’s a lot of workshops, but many of them have a few ppl to a pole so you will have time to stand and wait I would think in at least a few!
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I have had some other requests for that kind of tutorial. I could do tips for filming but posting can be complex because there are so many options and devices. I’m honestly terrible with tech and always have webmaster or my sons help me there. lol Filming tips I could do tho!
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I have never liked getting up in the morning but If it’s something you really want you’ll find the motivation and a way to make it work. Otherwise pole can just be a fun thing you do when you have time. Nothing wrong with that either! As a fellow morning hater, I’d say that Silver Sylph’s suggesting is good, just get to it right away. Then crash!
You could also keep your heavy training days to the week you have off then the 7 day 12 hr weeks just fit in 2-3 sessions to keep things in check. Use any of the routines, these are fast and you wont have to think!
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Hmmm. I’m not sure!! I just gave away anow old pair of clear heels, if I still had them I’d try taking them apart!
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The ab thing was a 30 challenge so it’s not an in-depth program…. here’s the discussion on that https://www.studioveena.com/forums/view/30_day_Ab_Challenge__20131204043313 🙂
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You can use the routines! Remember in each section everything is in order so do strength building with routines and pick moves to work on as a way to structure a session. You can also try any of the other programs, they are more challenging than the take off.
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4 is a good start!
Can I get a link for the Vortex please 😊