FreeTheSun
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Welcome!
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Mine said x-pole in purple on I think 2 or 3 sides of the box. But I haven’t run into too many people that know what an xpole is so even if people see it they prob won’t know what it is
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Welcome! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_sunny.gif It took me a while to be able to afford a pole too (just finished college and no real job yet cause I’m fleeing the country…by choice not cause I have to) but eventually I managed to get enough. Keep saving your pennies.
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Hey Hey. Welcome! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_sunny.gif
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Welcome! That’s awesome about your husband, my bf tends to come running out in his boxers, leap/latch on the pole for a quick spin (like a monkey as well) and then run back into the bedroom to go to bed. It’s hilarious.
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Welcome!
Be safe on your "craptastic" pole.
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50 is standard in most palce but 45s are nice and smaller poles are becoming much more common so it really depends on what you plan to do with your poling. I have 50 and like it and I’ve danced on 45 and liked those too. I don’t know if it is true or not but rumor has it that smaller poles are better on your hands/joints in the long run. I think either is fine. Sorry for the fence-sitter answer.
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I told my bf to leave the room the 1st time he tried just sitting on the couch "working on the computer" (he so wasn’t, it was a terrible attempt). It was awkward for me because I felt like I had to explain what I was going or verbalize various things (mess ups etc.) because someone was there and I couldn’t just focus on what I was trying to do. I hate doing workout-y things aroudn people, not sure why but it is awkward for me unless they are doing it with me. He understands and now will plan on doing other things (most often taking a bath cause he loves those) while I practice.
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I occasionally have issues with it. Mostly its a combo of me having swam competitively most of my life and then pole. One exercise that I like cause it actually helps me and is simple is take a tennis ball and place it on a wall under one hand. Stand so your arm is perpendicular to your body and your body is perpendicular to the floor. Press in to the ball slightly and do small circles (keeping your arm straight) one way and then reverse directions and then do the same thing on the other arm. You technically can do it without the ball and just move slower and really focus on imaging the resistance. I tend to use the ball if I’ve tewked it and just imagine resistance every (or every other) week if it is fine.
Other things I do are with resistance bands and keeping the arm straight (but not hyper-extended) and part of the band under your foot and the other in your hand lift your arm out infront of you a few times and then out to the side (but this is still sort of at an angle still to the front) and then small little lifts back. And then keeping the elbow in and arm bent in 90 degrees rotate arm in to tummy and then out to side (not too far back). and do that on both sides. You don’t need a ton of resistance or anything (again you can do this just imaging the resistance too).I’m not a physical therapist or anything but how it was explained to me is that due to the fact this is a small mucsle group you don’t need a lot of weight because that could damage it and the small movements (for me especially the side to side bent arm one adn the tenis ball thing because of the common motion of swimming) are good because it helps round out the stengthening of the muscle group and helps balance things out. That could have been some BS they spouted to get me to do them but most of my coaches were reliable sources of info so who knows.
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Glad you decided to introduce yourself. Welcome!
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I have a "take off" area for my pole for the bigger spins (especially reverse grab because I love that one) so what I do is I can only take off in about 1/4 of the space around my pole and can’t milk the spin for all it’s worth (that I save for the studio) but I can get around without kicking anything (and this is without shoes, because shoes are not an option in the space I have) most of the time. I just have to be sure that I push off at the right spot otherwise I bang into things. Although I kinda look at it as a way of practicing body control and awareness while spinning because if I push off wrong I’ve gotten decently good at tucking somewhat or adjusting my body as I complete the spin so I don’t kick anything. That way I feel like even though it is sorta cramped I’m still improving spins overall because I am forced to have better body control mid-air.
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She teaches some moves on spinning and some on stationary and normally notes which is which. I think you might want to do disk 2, depending on how comfortable your invert is and if it is just the basic invert or more advanced. I got the whole series because I figured there is always good information to be had from the first ones whether it be in just a new way to break down the move and teach it or a completely variation on a spin (easier or harder) that I didn’t know before.
So just watched disk two. Basically she does climbs, wrist sit, plank, a bunch of cross knee variations, craddle variations with different legs and grips, various handstands with the pole, basic invert and tips on focus and metal state getting into it, inverted crusifix, chopper or straddle (and what I think the "monkey hangs" from the "are you ready to invert" discussion), various fan legs, scorpio with about 3 or 4 ways to get out of it, and then what she calls Starfish which is essentially the "side v" (according to wikipole). She also has a ton of great info for spotting and other safety things. And then of course her warm up, cool down, and conditioning sections too.
