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Hmm, I just ordered my brass X-pole (YAAaaaayyyy!!!!!) and was planning to freestyle with my waist-length hair flowing loose.
Think I’ll stick to my ponytail now!
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Hi Jenny,
I think Emerald Candy sounds pretty if you’re going for something less vixen and more playful.. Just a suggestion!
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Hi Joyful,
If it makes you feel any better, I feel exactly the same way about this move! Everytime try it, I can almost get to the halfway point where my body is horizontal and my legs are froggy but then I just flop back down.
So just know that you’re not alone on this one! You can think of me too every time u get frustrated trying yr inverted V! 😉
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you look lovely & hot! great pics
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Ideally,
– Clean floors!!!
At the yoga studio I go to, there are cleaners who come in and mop the floors and mats after Every single class, which keeps the place looking and smelling fresh! I wish they would do that at the pole studio too, cos there's always hair, dust from shoes and sometimes grip-streaks on the floor. I try not to think about what I'm sliding around on during floorwork or I'd have a grimace on my face instead of a come-hither expression!
– Instructors who don't play favourites
I feel this is something that probably slips by unnoticed everywhere, because girls who are slower or shy will probably not bring it up. It's very easy for instructors to 'fall in love' with the great students but IMO it takes the very best instructors to bring the less competent and confident ones out of their shell. Cos they're the ones most likely to feel too overwhelmed or intimidated to come back for another term and give you their business again.
It can really hurt when instructors yell out that their favourite girls 'have to stand in front!' and it means you have to get out of the way for them to take centre stage. Hey, how about equal opportunity?
ok random rant over! ;p
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The first time I ever heard of pole dancing was when friend invited me to her friend’s studio opening. The owner did a demo and I was amazed at how graceful, beautiful and non trashy it was.
They were offering a cheap trial class so I signed up with another friend and went. The trial was a really simple floor work-based routine with just a half-spin and no other tricks. We loved it… Til the end of the class when the owner told us that if we wanted to take classes with her after that, we’d need to be able to grab the pole above our heads and lift ourselves off the ground!
This was prior to me ever doing any form of work out, so my little spaghetti arms reached up and pulled, but my body didn’t move anywhere. She made it pretty clear that if we couldn’t even do that then we def would not be able to keep up with her classes, so I gave up all hope of learning since it sounded as possible as winning the tour de France without being able to ride a bike.
A couple years later, I got into yoga and it was the most non threatening form of exercise for a person with no hand eye coordination who hated anything competitive. After a few years of yoga, I started reaching a plateau in strength and wasn’t motivated enough to work any harder at it cos I was getting bored.
At the same time, I started working really hard in a male-dominated industry, starting to burn out from trying to keep up with the guys, and just losing my sense of sensuality and my spark in life.
So I started looking for ways to get my sexy back and I remembered pole dancing. I reckoned that after a few years of yoga, I’d have enough basic strength to handle it and signed up for classes with a friend in January this year.
Well I still struggle with strength, so I’m trying out different poles to decide which to eventually buy for p home, but i definitely got my sexy back! 😉
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EVamp83… custard & mustard is my fave! LoL 😉
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You know ladies, your encouragement just made all the difference! I meant it about just quietly giving up and brushing off pole as something that’s not for me, despite having gushed about how much I love it to all my friends.
I didn’t realize how bad I felt until i started writing this thread yesterday and started crying. Gosh! I do think it goes deeper than just pole.. It’s a big combi of my deep insecurities and fears. For the longest time, I felt too ashamed to even look at myself in the mirror while dancing, and thanks to this forum I know I’m not alone on that one either.
So it’s a huuuuuuuge comfort knowing that so many others have also felt disempowered too, it even seems like it’s part of the pole journey in general.
Looks like I’ll be getting my own pole at home once I can afford it! Veena is so clear in her lessons and she can break down the moves so it’s easy to understand. While my instructors are great at the studio, they are more performance focused since most of them were pro dancers or gymnasts. I’ve never heard them talk about muscle groups and points of contact the way she does.
And I do think I need to move at a much slower and steadier pace. I actually feel like I’m injuring myself a different way from keeping up with the choreography.
So I’m gonna hang in there for now and maybe take a break and just practice when this term is done.
I really appreciate everything that each of you has said. And any time I feel crappy again, I’m gonna re-read all your comments here again! 😀
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Tell me about studio poling getting to be too much money! They charge $8/hour per practice session and classes are $32/lesson so that easily adds up to $160-$190 a month just to be on the pole twice a week.
I just got Veena’s lessons and spent the past hour or so watching them and WISHING I could try some of the moves, but I have to wait till next week when I’m at the studio.
dustbunny, I do agree that having a pole at home does sound like an ideal compliment to studio classes. I’d still want to take lessons if I got one, just maybe not as often.
Getting seriously tempted to clear out the entire living room and just install one there. Who needs to watch tv, when you can pole right? Lol! ;p
But I think about the conversation I’d have to have with my family and friends when they come over to my place and I don’t know if I can handle it yet. Or rather, if they can handle it!
Do you guys use X-poles? Thanks so much for your replies! 🙂
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I agree with Flexx10. I’ve seen some performances where the girls are so caught up with nailing their tricks that you notice their concentration and effort more than anything else. But if a dancer is confident and focused on engaging her audience, even watching simple floor work and half spins is a pleasure.
That said, I think a 50-50 ratio keeps the audience more appreciative of the tricks that a dancer does land, cos people can lose perspective of how much it takes to actually pull off a good trick. Kinda like how you can get desensitized to the violence of fight scenes in a war movie cos of all the blood and guts flying around every few minutes?
I think when people watch trick after trick for more than a minute, they can sometimes lose the appreciation. But if you are absorbed in the beauty of a dancer’s graceful movement, then suddenly tricks can ‘surprise’ your senses all over again
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