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Rhinoceros Issues
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Totally agree on the wide angle lens comment. Webcams are not designed to flatter. I hate using Skype for that very reason! 🙂
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you say that you think it's easier to learn without mirrors and video… so…
ask yourself, "why am i poling?" if you are poling to get in shape and have fun, and mirrors and video discourage you and get you bummed out, maybe you should just pole without mirrors and video. 🙂
maybe once a week you can use video to document progress and help fine tune things like lines, form, and flow.
Sometimes I think mirrors and video can distract me. I get more into the music- i feel the music more- when i'm not recording.
Mirrors can help when you have a performance piece and you want to be aware of how to position your moves to the audience's perspective.
Also- some of the best polers are not petite…
I wish I could say that " we are our own worst critics" … but now with youtube trolls, I wonder if that saying still holds true… At least here on veena you will not be judged in any manner. If you are enjoying the art of pole dance, you are appreciated here. yay! 😀
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@CapFeb In what universe are you thick?
@JoleneBell Yes, watching myself dance is always hard for me too… It is especially hard when I compare myself to the other girls in the studio, who are all Russian goddesses with amazing beauty and perfect physique and generally look like the photoshop version of themselves, while I am a short, brown, hairy Mediterranean monkey. *sigh*…
Anyway – it does get better with time. Some videos I still can't watch, but I think it has more to do with my feelings about the specific dance/setting/event when they were taken than how I actually looked in them. But with time, I learned to look at some of my other videos with a "forgiving eye" and see the good in them, even if at the time they were taken all I could spot in them were flaws.
In the studio, I try to treat my dancing as a celebration of my body. I always wear cloths that make me feel good and that compliment my figure. I wear makeup before class because it helps me feel prettier, and I try not to criticize myself when I look in the mirror.
Don't be discouraged, I think it's a stage everyone have to go through when they start dancing…
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Thanks so much for the encouraging words, everyone!
I actually do think that it is the wide angle lens in my webcam, because I don't feel that way about myself when I'm looking in my bedroom mirror. The camera seems to seriously add 20 pounds. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out!
p.s. I've been watching my work and can see how I actually have fantastic form and pole comes more naturally than I thought, which distracts a little from the chubbiness.
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I too really had some issues with watching myself on video. I actually made it a goal to do all the challenges here on SV, but once I started I felt that I move like a hippotamus so I found a ton of excuses to not record them.
Well, it took my some time to realize that it’s just not possible to move like Alethea Austin since I started only a few months ago having no dancing or gymnastics background.
She probably spent a lot of time, tears and hard work until she became who she is now!Actually, it helped a lot, finally just making the videos. Allthough it’s hard, you’ll never get the same feedback from friends or mirrors!
I recorded the April video over and over again, but I feel it helped me a lot to learn moving more gracefully.And let me tell you another thing about wide angle lenses:
What you place in the center will appear bigger! So if this is your belly, it might look huge!
But when you place the camera close to the ground and let it look up to you, it’ll make your legs look longer!
Watch my March video, and you’ll see what I mean.Also, putting on some high heels always boosts my confidence 😀
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Keep recording and keep posting – its like flooding therapy 🙂
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