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How to prepare for Shoulder Mount?
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I’m so glad someone else feels this way as I still can’t seem to get myself around the sm I get so far up and just can’t seem to hook that foot then my friend who rarely poles comes along and does it right away! I’m so peeved! 🙁 any tips would be great x
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I got this the 3rd time I practiced it after this thread. Then I needed to practice other grips and I needed a spotter to push me for one type. Luckily I got that grip the next week by myself! You just have to keep trying and some moves take forever! It took my 5-6 months for my handspring. Everyones body is diff. Good luck.https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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I had been trying to get my SMs consistenly for 5-6 months until Aletha’s workshop. Two things made a major difference, and I immediately got it-and do it 100% of the time now! 1) my pole partner (Black Orchid) said ti envision meat hooks in you chet pulling you up 2) Aletha sweeps the opposite leg of the side ur SMing on from the outside to inside (pictire a large half circle motion while that leg is straight), as u start lifting off the ground, tuck the 2nd leg until ur horizontal, then go into a full “V” or straddle position. If u feel urself slipping down the pole pull ur elbows in together more and pull ur chest up towards ceiling. Note- she has going into SM V’s, not straight legs: if u want to do straight legs, envision crotch to pole last…not toes to pole.
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cupcake–trying to picture what you're saying. If you're shoulder mounting on left shoulder, sweeping right leg from ground around to the right and up, and left leg is tucked?
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If you're taking the lessons sparrow, it sounds like the Shoulder V lesson. I'm pretty sure cupcake meant she sweeps the opposite leg you mount on. I don't think she uses the same leg of the shoulder the pole is on, and sweeps out to the opposite side and up? That would seem harder. In the lesson the "lead", or what cupcake calls the "sweeping" leg is the opposite side of the shoulder that the pole is on. So if the pole is on the right shoulder, the left leg leads.
https://www.studioveena.com/lessons/view/4d6fa127-dab8-4370-949f-629d0ac37250
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Ah, I get it what you mean now, cupcake. It's kind of hard to expain what I *thought* you meant by the leg sweep, which is why I was confused, now I understand. 🙂
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Ah even though I have watched your lesson I did not notice that veena! I mount on my right shoulder and have been sweeping my right leg, so from what u guys are saying I should be sweeping my left leg, yes?
I got my foot to the pole today which is a massive improvement 🙂 -
Yes that’s correct. I wouldn’t say you have to do it that way but it’s the way I teach it. 🙂
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Im so glad to see im not the only more “grown” lady who cannot progress if i pole hard more than twice a week. Ive been a home poler for years and when a young lady in my area opened a studio, i spent several months injured because i was in denial that i couldnt run with the younguns any more. I am currently chipping away at the SM too…
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I know its an old thread but comforting nonetheless…
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