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#beautifulbeginnerbasics challenge idea
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I dunno what Martini is. Is it fireman with one leg extended or chair with a leg extended?
I love combo- ing beginner spins on spin pole, here is Attitude – Backhook – Chair and it went on into more variations after the IG 15 secs.
http://instagram.com/p/vljZIRFDDL/
Some IG challenges have a demo posted the day before but I don’t feel competent or organised enough to do that. Does anyone want to be the demo person? Or shall we just leave it and assume people can look it up if they don’t know the move or aren’t sure because they know it by another name?
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This is such a great idea!
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Hmm I thought there would be a lesson here, but it looks like not exactly. Martini is like flirty fireman except you bring that knee up to look more like the side sit legs. I’ll search a YouTube video later today 🙂
For what it’s worth, the combo in the video would have been impossible for me as a beginner. It took a really long time just to be strong enough to do front hook to back hook on a spinning pole. One move per day might be more accessible to beginners, but if the challenge is geared more towards intermediate/advanced polers looking back on basics, then combos would be fun/more accessible. But as mentioned above, it’s your baby! Just throwing out thoughts 🙂
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Thinking back, the first moves I learned were
Walking round and under pole quick pirouettes
Fireman with knees together then one leg extended then pike
Back hook spin
Carousel with diamond and straight legs
Big step around the pole into back hook spin
Front hook spin and whip leg in
Chair spin
Sun wheel
Attitude/reverse attitude
Slide down into back bend
Slide into jazz splits
Tush push
Fan kick on floor
Windmill (fan kick holding pole)
Firecracker (tuck and then V legs from side pole hold)
Sexy squat
Wrap one leg round pole and bend forward pose – name escapes me
Floor develepe
High kick to back bend
Sexy crawl
Rib isolations, hip rolls
Hip dips and head rolls/hair flicks
Flatline descent
Number 7/supermarket (getting up from squat with knees together by sticking tail out and up then lifting chest and arching back up)
Slide down with back to pole and hands over head then peekaboo (open and close legs). Stripper moves – I was originally taught by a stripper back in UK over a decade ago so we learned lots of stripper stuff. Gymnastic/contemporary pole didn’t really exist then and there was no social media.Amazing I can remember any of it all! It was aaaaaages ago.
Really interested to hear what everyone else learned first.
Sorry for essay!
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Lucca I think you’re right, combos will be too much – let’s keep it accessible. People can do the move of day and we can maybe have a weekly wild card if more advanced people want to string combos together and go nuts!
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Yknow I don’t think I’ve ever heard that one leg on the pole fold over thing called anything? Maybe pole fold over? I think I’m mostly making that up but it sounds like a thing lol
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Did somebody say prance already? I love to prance 😀
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Yeah prancing!
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Im on board with whatever you guys want! You’re coming up with such good ideas.
I love me a good speed bump!
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I love the idea of this, I’ll definitely take part in it. For me some of the moves will be new but I look forward to the challenge. Some ideas for pole moves:
cross steps
extended leg spin
knee spin
Pole hold hopWill definitely need to use Veena’s terms and/or provide a picture of the move. There’s been quite a few mentioned here that I have no clue over!
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Ok a provisional list? Anything you want to add or take away?
1. Fireman
2. Walk
3. Body waves
4. Squat
5. Pirouettes
6. Shoulder slide
7. Easy Up
8. Kicks
9. Sit
10. Attitude spin
11. Back hook spin
12. Chair spin
13. Back bend slide
14. Slink Up
15. Spin Up
16. Tush Push
17. Flip Split
18. Leg Show
19. Step Around
20. Prance
21. Fan Legs
22. Front Hook spin
23. Carousel Spin
24. Extended Leg Spin
25. Pole Climb
26. Elbow stand
27. Crucifix
28. Plank
29. Thigh Rest
30. Cradle spin
31. Freestyle -
I’d be happy to make a graphic! List looks good to me.
Let me know when it’s final! I can try and make something eye catching.
Let me know if you have any things you want.
I’ll include your username as well as the hashtag!
Any color preference? 🙂 Let me know!!!!!This is going to be fun!
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Awesome! Thanks SO much! How about it being jointly hosted by a gang of us?maybe Maravilla, Lucca, Freddie, yourself, and me and Veena too if she wants?
We probably need to agree on the content by end of today as Christmas is looming and we need to give you time to make the graphic and send it to us to post on IG…
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I just had the thought that #beautifulbeginnerbasics is a really long hashtag and #polebasics or similar might work better.
Also I am happy to do this every day – but I am not an instructor like kino yoga or Veena and I feel embarrassed at the idea of people thinking I am setting myself up as some kind of expert when all I am doing is trying to improve the fundamentals of my own practice, hopefully in fun company.
Is it usual for people to expect a demo every day or the day before with an explanation? Because I’m not really qualified to do that. And with no childcare and my preschooler off school my poling time is v limited in early Jan.
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Excited about this! I’ll be away from my pole through the fifth so I will have to play catch up unfortunately 😥 I like the idea of shortening the hashtag. #polebasics would be good. #newyearbasics only has one post. I don’t think I would like to host because I am so new to pole and IG. Just feeling shy about that I guess 😳
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