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Stainless or Titanium
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You say that your skin is very dry, so I thought I would chip in and say that the dryer my skin is the more I find I slip on a stainless pole. I also slip more on then when sweaty though. I use no grip at all most of the time on anything other than stainless poles where I an forever reapplying. I would go titanium, but that’s just me and I have brass which I love to bits.
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I have dry skin and I find stainless to be very slippery. Unless it is nice and humid out. then if I didn't mind listening to my hubby whine about the heat in the house I could stick.
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This thread has confused me a bit…
I recently posted a question about brass and SS Xpoles (I am verrrry sweaty), and the response I got was to get a brass because the SS is extremely slick especially with my naturally sweaty self lol
Now I am reading here that the SS are worse for dry skin and better for sweaty hands/body?
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I was back on the stainless Monday night and did not have any issues however the studio was warm and there was a class right before we got there. I was on one of the 45s most of the night and ouchies!
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From what I have read, seems like Brass and SS are both good for the "glistening" dancer! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gifTitanium gold and chrome are different than SS and Brass. But really you never know for sure what will work best for you until you try, even then conditions will change your grip.
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Stainless and brass work for sweaty bodies. Stainless only gets hard to dance on when you are either too sweaty on your hands or bone dry. The happy medium seems to be okay. It's also harder when it's cold. A warm stainless is nice though. I am a sweaty girl now and I am oversticking to my brass pole. I had the opposite problem when I had dry skin. I couldn't grip in with my body without some grip aid. It was great for my hands though! I was able to grip the titanium pole realy well with my body while sweating. I had a harder time when I was dry (again grip aids helped.) Titanium can be a good medium when you want stick, but not an overstick, and it still has enough glide to be able to do spins on it. Brass I can spin on easily, but, like I said, now it can get too sticky.
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I have only tried chrome and stainless. I like stainless more. I use ss at the studio and chrome at home. Whoo that rhymed! 😛
I have dry to normal skin and I dont sweat very much but it does happen sometimes.
My experiances.
Chrome.
I hate it! I have great grip with my body but it is like the chrome makes me have the sweatiest hands in the world. No matter what grip aid I use the pole must be wiped constantly and wash my hands multiple times during practice. And when I do it only works for about a minute. I tried, dry hands, itac2, tite grip and chalk and nothing works good enough. 🙁Stainless.
I love it! No matter if I am super dry or sweaty, Itac can almost always help me out when I get slippage issues and I very rarely need to wipe the pole and usually I dont need to do it at all during a whole practice. 🙂 -
to further complicate the issue, i'll also add that the multi-piece PS ss is stickier than the one-piece.
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Lol!!!! This is a hard subject because body Chem has so much to do with it and we are all different. I called xpole today because my old one is stuck together in the middle, but anyway. Lol!!! Now I am thinking for me chrome or brass. I like my chrome now that it is broken in. She told me that titanium eventually will become 2 toned because of the coating. That bothers me a bit because I will hopefully have the pole forever.
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