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Hate carpet! What can i do?
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I have some of those but they are not really good for dancing in heels. We decided last night to cut the carpet up in the area around the two poles, then put in a cheap pergo type stuff. I would love to do the whole floor since it is my great room however there is water damage over by the bar that would have to be fixed first and neither my husband or I have the skill to do so.
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Good for you deciding to do that nymphdancer. When we were looking into replacing carpet in two rooms (one being the pole room) I wanted to put pergo or something like that around the pole. For different reasons we didn't and I regret it. The new carpet was put in not too long ago so I'm too scared to have it cut out and put something in now. I also looked into doing the whole room in non-carpet but it was getting too difficult the more we looked into it and more expensive than we thought because the room has cement floor to begin with. I now have a 1" memory foam around the floor to protect the carpet from my "dirty" feet 🙂 and protect the new carpeting. Since I don't pole in heels, maybe I'll look into those puzzle mats.
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if you don't pole in heels the puzzle mats are good, although for the same price or cheaper you can get the same thing in solid colors in the sporting goods department of most places like Walmart, cosco, sams.
I practice in bare feet but when I really want to dance need my heels 🙂
my carpet is old so I don't care that I'm taking a chunk out of it for a dance floor lol.
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to add to nymph's last post. my local kmart was sellin the solid gray ones for the 1/2 the price of sports authority. so u know i bought twice as many. lol.
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I just found these bamboo mats on eBay –
they are cheap and seems like they might work well and are attractive looking.
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those are interesting and might work for some of the others in the thread. I would need way too many of them to do the area I'm looking at doing because I have two poles in my living room and I want to have the same surface between poles.
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– did you order the bamboo mats? If you do, let me know how they work out. Thanks!
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@hookedonpole: Oh yes, I should have mentioned that I use my leather-soled ballet slippers on carpet. I love them! I imagine I'll still use them when we finally replace the carpets with laminate because my feet stick to laminate and I won't be able to pivot or pirouette.
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Those of you who use the puzzle mats…I have an xpole, did you cut anything so it will fit around the pole, or just push mats up around it? Thanks.
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I have the mats and i cut a slit and small circle the diameter of the pole in one that goes around the pole so the pole is coming out the middle of the mat.
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I have carpet (big fluffy shag) at home and I LOVE practicing in shoes. I use shoes with NO grip on the carpet and shoes WITH grip on hardwood at the studio. It seems to balance out. So maybe all you need to do is buy more shoes? 🙂
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I have carpet (big fluffy shag) at home and I LOVE practicing in shoes. I use shoes with NO grip on the carpet and shoes WITH grip on hardwood at the studio. It seems to balance out. So maybe all you need to do is buy more shoes? 🙂
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I have carpet (big fluffy shag) at home and I LOVE practicing in shoes. I use shoes with NO grip on the carpet and shoes WITH grip on hardwood at the studio. It seems to balance out. So maybe all you need to do is buy more shoes? 🙂
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I have carpet (big fluffy shag) at home and I LOVE practicing in shoes. I use shoes with NO grip on the carpet and shoes WITH grip on hardwood at the studio. It seems to balance out. So maybe all you need to do is buy more shoes? 🙂
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I have carpet (big fluffy shag) at home and I LOVE practicing in shoes. I use shoes with NO grip on the carpet and shoes WITH grip on hardwood at the studio. It seems to balance out. So maybe all you need to do is buy more shoes? 🙂
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