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My favorite grip
Hi guys! I wanted to give you all a heads up that my favorite grip aid is available to be ordered this weekend through Mary Ellyn (Empy) of Empowerment Through Exotic Dance.
She sells this product called Grrrip. It’s the best grip I have found on the market hands down (for me.) It’s much like Dry Hands but not as tacky and you can still spin, it also last longer on your hands than Dry Hands does. It’s not very expensive – if you order 6 bottles it’s $30 plus $5 shipping.
A lot of the girls at USPDF ECR tried mine and really liked it. I use the lotion which is more drying than the spray – you can do mix and match of the spray and lotion. I think you can order just a single bottle too. Mine all went really fast because everyone liked it so much and I used it on my poles at USPDF ECR.
Anyway – I really love this product and just wanted to let you guys know she’s doing a big order on Monday and if you like some you can PM Empy https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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I’m going to buy a case purely on your recommendation alone!
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is there a website for it?
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I’ve heard of Grrrp and heard great things about it. I’m going to have to look into adding it to HOP… https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Charley, I have a bottle of this and find that it doesn’t really last any longer than other grip aids I’ve tried–i.e. I sweat through it before I’m halfway through an average length song. I was really disappointed because I heard so many raves for this product. However, I was reading through some old threads the other day and saw that you recommended actually applying grip aid a couple of hours before poling, not right before. Is that how you use Grrrip, and if so, does that make a big difference in your sweatiness as opposed to just applying it right before you pole, letting it dry, and hopping on?
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Hey Horsecrazy!
I recommend using Tite Grip a few hours before poling because it’s an antiperspirant – it really doesn’t provide grip as much as it prohibits sweating.
With the Grrrip I find that for me it last through an entire song. I also use the LOTION not the spray – the spray doesn’t work for me AT ALL. I will use the spray directly on my pole and that helps for performances and really cold dry days. The most common form of Grrrip as I understand it is the spray so that could be the problem – the lotion is Grrrip Plus – so extra grippy https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
Ultimately you have to find what works for you. I find Tite Grip a few hours before pole dancing and some Grrrip Lotion work great for me and I can get through a song or two. I also notice I’m not a terribly confident dancer and I think a lot of my sweating comes from fear – I’m still afraid of a lot of things that I can perform securely…maybe you’re the same?
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ok this is a quick cut out – can they change the name to "Charley’s Grrrip"
This is how much I love this stuff.
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I have the lotion, actually–I can’t do a routine with it on because I slide around so much. My hands sweat like crazy from any type of friction, which obviously is completely unavoidable with pole dancing. I don’t think I am nervous about any move I am trying–at least I don’t feel nervous. Usually I am just rocking out at home, having fun, dancing around and as soon as I do a few spins or a few inverts, bam, the hands are already starting to get slippery. I’ve always had this problem–I have to wear gloves when I jump rope, or do chin-ups, or work out with my kettlebells because the friction makes my hands so damp that they slip really badly. I’ve had the rope fly out of my hands before, as well as a kettlebell, which, thank God, just landed heavily on my carpet, flipped over a few times, and smacked my wall but didn’t dent it, as opposed to going through a computer or a mirror or something. Learned my lesson with that one. I never thought about it much before, because wearing weight lifting gloves was enough to keep these activities from being dangerous, but it really hinders me in my pole dancing. My dances usually consist of just a few moves that I know I can get out of safely if my hands slip badly, which is frustrating.
I have, however, recently found something that I think may work for me–I also saw a suggestion in one of the old threads from someone who has been dancing for years (can’t recall the member’s name,) and struggled with severely sweaty hands–she puts the highest strength anti-perspirant you can get on her hands every night, then washes it off the next morning. This is apparently not an immediate fix, but makes a difference in the long run. I’ve been doing this for the past several nights and my hands do seem to be a bit drier; I’m trying to get in the habit of doing this now, so by the time spring rolls around and my poling really picks up again, hopefully by then my hands won’t sweat so damn much.
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