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I’ve got one xpole in the lounge room it does spin or static. And I have two poles in my hubby’s man cave which is a shed turned fitness room set up with competition distance between them, one spin & one static. I work shifts and was keeping everyone awake wanting to pole late at night in the house after coming off night shifts. So instead I work out in the shed. But in summer it regularly gets over 45 degrees Celsius at our house (which is 113f) so I workout with the air conditioner on. Each has their purpose.
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I luv spin mode but unless it is ridiculously slow all I feel like doing is spewing! This weekend we did our first performance at the studio Xmas party. I was really worried about our routine as there were heaps of spins. One of the girls told me to get ginger tablets. The box said to take two and I took four. I was so nervous when we started that I kicked off too hard and went madly spinning upside down…great news was I felt ok and was able to keep going! Ginger tablets are awesome!!!
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Great article! Just spent a couple of hours going thru her other blog posts – very informative. Thanks 4 posting 😀
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I loved it! Voted 🙂
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I take lessons at a great studio, have been to several workshops & have quite a few excellent pole dvds but I still need Veena 🙂
Sometimes I struggle to remember a move or get into it properly. Veena has so much info in her lessons that I regularly look at them to check that my technique is correct & safe! And she generally has multiple ways of entering or learning each move, as well as strengthening exercises to work on, so that you know you are physically capable of performing it safely before putting your neck on the line
In combination with all the feedback & discussion on this site I find StudioVeena is brilliant and would highly recommend the lessons to anyone who wants to learn Pole Dancing in a safe and sustainable way. And the bonus is….you look a whole lot sexier when you perform the moves confidently and with correct technique 🙂
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Brilliant post Veena – u always manage to provide advice, support or insight into real issues that affect us all. Thank you for sharing with us 🙂
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OMG that was awesome!! Loved it!!
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Yep, Lyme Lyte is right – u can’t see anything 🙂 totally awesome!!!
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Olga Koda – WOW….never seen her before – think I have a new pole crush 🙂
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I’ve got the slinky top and I’m small busted. I like them but I’ve got to say I don’t wear it as much as the others cuz I think you need a bit more boob to fill them up and make them look good! So I don’t think you’d have a problem 🙂
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How good is that!?! 🙂 I’m so tempted to buy 4 more fly tops cuz they are so comfy & the prices are really good at the moment.
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Thanx for the tip Aerial Gypsy 🙂 I didn’t know that!
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Hey LeyRose, I don’t know if you have seen any of ScarlettHoney’s videos – she is such an awesome dancer and I know she trained at Bobbi’s in Surry Hills for a long time. I would love to be half that sexy with my dancing 😉 Bobbi’s is definitely very sexy…all of her girls have a very similar, signature style. I went to Pole Candy this year and you could tell who trained there. One of my all time favourites -Dirdy Birdy- also trained there for a while and she is amazing.
It depends what you want though….one of the girls I train with now used to be at Bobbi’s but she didn’t like it cuz a lot of the girls go there specifically to learn how to strip and work the pole and they don’t seem to have as much fun as us (at least thats the feedback I heard) which is not what Kelli wanted so she left and came out to our studio.
I also went to the Australian Pole Festival in Qld this October and met some great people & amazing instructors! It depends what style of dance you want to do but Suzie Q at Parramatta is great – a lot of her students compete and dance various styles and always do extremely well. I was really impressed with the Suzie Q instructors and am thinking about picking up some floorwork / freestyle dance classes with them.
There are so many top quality studios in Sydney now. It just depends what you want to do and how far you want to travel. Shimmy has a studio near Redfern, Jamilla has one at Camperdown, SuzieQ is at Parramatta and Blush (as seen on Packed to the Rafters) is in Newtown & St. Peter’s. Then there all the ones out in the suburbs, however, you do have to be careful with them because the quality of instruction differs greatly.
Just depends what area you want to travel to. I am actually thinking about going up the Central Coast for some lessons with Daisy (she’s gorgeous and in Cleo’s video) and I want to go on a holiday to Canberra & Qld again to catch up with some of the instructors I met at the Pole Festival because they were excellent teachers that really focused on safety & correct technique as well as creativity, rhythm & performance charisma.
God I could go on and on forever:) I’m definitely up for a pole jam at some point & I have a couple of poles at home (in the Hawkesbury area) if you wanted to visit – so there’s no need to take turns!! I’m still pretty new to pole and definitely do strength moves better than sexy, improvised dance but I am totally hooked! And the awesome girls on SV are giving me plenty of inspiration and motivation to keep getting better.
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VillainVixen – I am pretty small all over but unfortunately have the muffin top thing happening in a big way :(. I find that if I roll the top of the shorts over all you can see is my tummy (yuk!) but if I leave the top of the shorts up it helps hold it in and doesn’t look too bad. It also doesn’t get in the way if I’m doing inverted moves or leg switches etc – I still have enough skin exposed on the side of my tummy to grip the pole.
LeyRose – you can either let the ties hang down or tie them up in a bow or knot. You can also use the ties to make the shorts more scrunched up or not, depending on the look & amount of coverage you want. I’ve never found them to get in the way but if you let them hang loose you do have to get used to the feel of them on your thighs. All the girls at our studio have these or very similar style shorts with the side ties – they look cool, add a bit of variety & no one has ever had a problem with moves because of the ties.
Hope this helps ladies 🙂
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Wow that looked awesome & totally exhausting 🙂 I don’t know how you remembered all those moves!