AllysonKendal
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Usually there are periodic sales. If I had to guess, I bet there would be one around Valentine’s Day 🙂
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I have a 4 inch mat.,, review here 🙂
https://www.studioveena.com/photos/view_photo/53977caa-e640-40de-818b-78170a9aa0eb
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I redesigned my workout schedule for Jan. And I don’t really have any complete rest days on my cal… but I work Tuesday-Thursday and my job has me hustling so I put easy things on those days.
Which include: just a few pirouettes in each direction (both kinds). I don’t find these difficult. Just a coordination and muscle memory issue esp on my left. I love when people have great basics. So I’m working on making them super fantasticly kickass by the end of the year. And I work on my toe points, rolling my muscles, and I do a few easier shoulder stretches 🙂
So far I’m just starting out my schedule (2 weeks completed) but I find it’s working for me.
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In class we’ll do a variety of grips. I usually tend to do true. But we are given a variety and different variations. Generally I’m working on them from the floor with my hands already on the pole and my chest facing the ceiling (I think I posted a link above). But the other day we did work on that cartwheel I posted. I just don’t think we went over the names, or if we did I’ve missed it. I haven’t tried it where you walk past the pole and then put your lower hand on though!! I want to try that.
I do feel pretty fortunate my instructor is crazy strong and deadlifts and Iron Xs in many grips… so she isn’t one that only teaches TG. Especially because I don’t love it. I do a few here and there to keep it accessible to me. One day I’d love to do a Phoenix… but I’m not overly focused on it.
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Thank you Veena. That really clears things up.
I have a really tough time spotting differences in moves. I know when I first started i couldn’t tell if someone was doing true grip or split grip to save my life!
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I’m also a 9.5, and I actually order a 10. I’ve tried on both 9s and 10s and I felt like the plastic straps were the same size, but the footbed was bigger on the 10, with the 9s my toes were too close to the edge and it made floorwork difficult.
I hope that helps.. but I probably just confused you more 🙂
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I don’t have the lessons at the moment, so I can’t view them. Boo.
AH, the terminology is getting me! In class we never handspring by walking past the pole. Hm. I should try that. I knew I saw it somewhere, must have been here. We usually just start in a split grip type position and pop up, like in this (very old) video https://www.instagram.com/p/9zOinejLCq/
We call most of those moves just handspring variations. So What I did we just called “another way to handspring”
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In yoga they recommend sitting on the edge of a folded blanket or a yoga wedge like so…
http://www.huggermugger.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/paschi-carla.jpgThis tips the pelvis forward and allows you to fold forward without rounding. 🙂 It really helps me to feel the stretch in the correct places. You just need to make sure you are sitting on the edge of the blanket, not just sitting flat or it won’t help with the tilt.
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I think competition poles depend on the sponsorship. The ones sponsored by lupit (like uspdf) or platinum stages both use stainless (I’m pretty sure neither has a chrome option) I’m not sure if xpole uses chrome or stainless in their competition poles… however many people are allergic to chrome, so it’s possible that they use stainless as well 🙂
I agree though, warming yourself and the pole is key. And you might need to play around with different grip aids for different seasons. Also using a glycerin based lotion before bed keeps your skin from drying out too much but isn’t greasy.
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Your heading describes me as well. I love love love the stainless at the studio… but those are platinum stages poles. I’m not sure but I’ve heard through the grapevine that the xpole stainless is very very slippery.
My first pole didn’t spin and it was a chrome xpole. When I upgraded to a spin pole I picked titanium gold. I like it a lot more than chrome, but not as much as the studio poles. It seems to warm up so much faster than the chrome. And it stays warm if I take a 5 minute break (my chrome didn’t hold heat well at all).
Brass is always an option but personally I find that it pulls on my skin way too much. It hurts!!! When I was used to them (because that’s all my studio used to have) I got used to it. But now that they put some stainless poles up it’s hard for me to go back to the brass.
It’s hard to find the perfect finish. But I have to say a lot of it has to do with warming the pole up.
I got the xpole pole warmer and I put it on 20min or so before I pole and that really helps.
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WHEW! I feel so much better now.
The owner reached out to me and invited me to the show! It was great (and i’m so happy i got to enjoy it)
And right now everything is great, I’m just feeling a little lost… but more on that in a bit (I think I’m going to write a blog post on it)
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I also agree that if you need DVDs – fit & bendy is more my speed 🙂
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Obviously I’ll echo what everyone said about this site. Veena is a great instructor.
But I’ll also give my opinion about Cleo’s DVD (I’ve only done Legs N Abs)…
I liked it, I’d consider doing it again…. but parts of it were too aerobic for me. Not that I physically couldn’t do it, but I didn’t want to 😛Personal preference. I really like calm, yoga-ish, flowy, peaceful, meditative, stretching.
After Cleo’s DVD (even just doing the beginner/Intermediate schedule) I’d be sweaty, gross and exhausted. I do think that kind of activity builds up active flexibility but I just wish it was calmer and not as “Rockin” 😛
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Oh I posted it in there but it didn’t hyperlink…. Let me try again!
https://chopracentermeditation.com/
You have to login to have access to the free challenge 🙂
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Thanks for the love and support guys. It really warms my heart. Thanks for taking the time out to respond and lift me up. I can’t even express what it means to me.
I feel really good about my decision… and about taking a little break.
I do feel bad if I let down the owner of the pole studio. We were actually getting to be pretty friendly… and I feel really awkward now, she only really responded saying “I guess you have to do what you have to do” so…. I feel like she is annoyed over it. But I guess we will see how she feels later (and how I feel). I think the stress of putting on a showcase is probably heavy on her mind… and things get lost via text.
I’m really excited to back up a bit and find some love for pole again. Not really sure what that looks like. But I’m looking forward to find out.