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If you don’t have our lessons why?
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I’m trying to remember what made me hesitate before buying the lessons and I came up with 2 things… most of which won’t really help you.
1. I didn’t trust myself to make use of them… and even though $79 was a great bargain, its a lot for something you don’t use.
I don’t get to pole as much as I’d like at home… but for less than 1/2 the cost of a single studio session for a month of SV lessons… I’m not disappointed if I only use it once a month. Usually I watch at least few times a month when I’m bored at work or something. Not always when I’m poling though.
2. I can go to Target and drop over a hundred dollars on toilet paper, nail polish remover, and tampons easily… but it’s hard for me to spend a large quantity of money on things I can’t physically hold. I know it sounds silly, its not that I’m materialistic (I said toilet paper and tampons after all!)… My husband is more of an “experiences” person, if that makes any sense. Well he encourages me to like invest in myself and invest my time in things that make me happy… So he was a big motivator in me getting the lessons (and spending so much money on pole in general).
I don’t know if either of those reasons will help you… because they are really consumer issues out of your control, but maybe knowing the consumer a little better (or at least this one crazy consumer) can help you come up with different marketing strategies.
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Thanks Allyson! That’s more helpful than you think.
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Okay so one of my issues was that years ago, within my level of ability there was not enough choreography on SV lessons to keep me engaged. At the time I don’t think I really even realized why it felt stale to me after a short time, I just knew I felt stuck, until I started driving to a studio two hours away where I got to learn fresh choreography every week and realized that’s what I had been missing with SV and why I waited so long to renew my subscription later. Now that I’m at a strength level where I’m learning spin pole technique, off the ground holds/inversions and ways to connect them I have the same reluctance to renew my subscription when it runs out because right now the lessons only teach individual inversions and not choreography to connect them. The choreography is for me what keeps me motivated. Now that I’m teaching I’ve realized too, it prevents students from being hyper-focused on trying moves that they’re not ready for because they have enough new pole candy at their appropriate level to try. It’s what makes me not the least bit sad that I can’t fonji or iron cross yet, because I’m learning that low on-the-knee/top-of-the-feet pirouette, or how to fluidly transition from a pole hold to a figurehead spin down the pole.
I get what you’re saying about you get the same content whether you go through the lessons quickly or slowly, and it is a lot of content, but at this time there are only a few of the lessons that are new or useful to me, and not enough choreography to keep me engaged within my level.
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Nilla, you’ve already gone through all of the 30 combos?
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Are the combos the same as your routines? If so, not exactly. I’ve watched many of them, taking note of what moves are in them and how they’re connected. It would have been great to go through them when I didn’t know how to connect spins and transitions yet. Now that I’m at a point where I’ve learned how to choreograph for myself they aren’t any more helpful than me writing a list of spins and transitions down and dancing through them one after the other. Again, they would have been very helpful when I was at that level, but connecting holds and inversions and fluid spin pole combos are more the area where I need help now.
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No the combos are not the routines that you saw years ago. As an instructor I find I’m always looking to expand my knowledge and learn from wherever I can.
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I’m confused then, I’ve been going through the Routines and Combos section. I guess I considered the ones listed “Beginner 1-12” or “Advanced 1-5” to be routines…or are they combos? I guess they could be considered both.
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Those you listed are short routines, with combos in them. I tend to refer to them as combos because I now have many long full length routines.
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Where would I find these full length routines?
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If the routine and combo section.
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Oh sorry I thought you said those are short routines with combos in them and you have many long full length routines elsewhere? Now I’m really confused :/
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In the rountie and combo section you will find
13 full length routines, by full length I mean longer than 10 mins of play time I. Average 25 mins in length. After those you’ll find 30 mini routines or combos as I refer to them. These are roughly under 10 mins play time. All full length routines are also found in each lesson section at the end, with the exception of the Pole Strength Routine, that can be found after the indevidual Pole strength lessons.
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Sorry for the typos I’m at the zoo with my kids
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Okay I see what you mean. So 10 of those first 13 routines are actually stretching, strength, or warm up routines and not choreographed dance routines, which is what I’m interested in. I actually love the longer advanced routine listed just before the splits routines. It’s the only one I’ve found so far that has what I need right now. I would love more content like that 🙂
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I have the lessons and have viewed most of them. They are great and I love the way you explain them and have additional videos below for help with the current one. I personally think they are well worth the price. It would be nice to have some more intermediate/advanced moves. Not saying I can do all of the ones you already have but some more options would be nice. Also like Nilla said, more dance choreography 🙂
The only thing that keeps me from really using the lessons is I already know how to do a lot of the moves I have seen on here that i like to do and the fact that my pole is in my living room and not my computer. I just set up my other pole in another small bedroom but I don’t have access to the lessons in either area. I could use my phone but i like to watch and do as I’m watching and repeat, rewind or replay easily if needed instead of going into another room to do it and back and forth if that makes sense. I want a darn smart tv and xbox one lol! I think i could on either one of those but your videos wont play on my xbox360. So that is my main reason. Sucks too because i want to go through every lesson and perfect each as best i can from the very beginning to the advanced in order but it’s a pain not being able to see the video while i’m working on it..For me anyways.
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