MichelleH
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She pulls off some AMAZING tricks! I just wiish she smiled a bit 🙁
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Let me add my welcome!
I've been travelling to Cape Town quite a lot recently and was helping my friend who owns a studio there by teaching her male class on a Tuesday night. I would be fascinated to know what moves were easier to learn, moves that are not possible, moves you enjoyed learning? I know with different 'equipment', you need to take a slightly different approach to poledancing?
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My Nats?? Well I can't really help you as I can't do Dove, but I guess if you're spinning a bit, why not make it a half turn and then it looks planned?
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I'm pretty sure this is what you mean by going into an inverted V, but I found that keeping the split grip and then doing an inverted V gave me the control from flatline scorpio. You can then lower your legs down and bend your knees to land on your feet, or in a straddle.
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Ramblerchick is spot on, what great energy!
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Don't worry JPoleLove! You will make more progress than you ever thought possible! I don't have a dance background and in 2 years I have progressed to a point where I have become an instructor, have performed in front of groups of people and have done moves that I never thought I'd be able to do!
It's hard to focus on the now when we're looking towards what we want to look like one day, just don't forget to enjoy the journey you're in, the now, the present moment.
And welcome to this awesome sport!
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WAAAY too advanced for me, just chipping in to wish you good luck!
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WAAAY too advanced for me, just chipping in to wish you good luck!
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I'm sure more experienced people will have more valuable advice than me. This is definitely a move to be careful with though!
I found that a good progression was key to this. We have a move which is a bit easier than aysha, called invert barbie. Invert, put your strong hand onto the pole overhead and wrap your other arm around your chest so the pole is in your elbow grip but you are gripping your ribs with your fingers. Then you lower your legs down into a V that is parallel with the ground.
This gets you used to gripping with your arms only whilst taking your legs off the pole. Once this is comfortable, you can progress up to caterpillar climb. From what I've seen of Veena's pole strength exercises, her shoulder press should also help with getting strong for this
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Hey there! The Kamikaze is also called Cocoon and there's a whole facebook group devoted to it if you want to have a look
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In our beginner class, we do a warm up followed by learning a basic routine; walk, spin, pose, hip circles. Most of our classes follow a similar process of warming up, learning moves, putting them together in a routine and then doing pole specific strengthening and stretching at the end of class
Good luck!
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Interesting, a friend and I are considering doing a detox next week. Not sure what we're going to do though.
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Wow that's a tough one! I guess my advice would be to practice moves that you feel safe with for now to make sure you don't lose any of your fitness, then look at getting some crash mats? I don't use them generally but they had them at one of the studios I was teaching at and it made me a feel a lot safer to use it when I was still unsure of superman.
Hope that helps!
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Oh pity about the 4 minutes, My Superman by Santogold is brilliant! If you like it enough, maybe download Audacity (free song editing software) and see if you can loop the middle or something?
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You WILL have the willpower to do this! Spend time writing down why you want to quit successfully, what it means to you, what your life will look like without smoking in it, what you will do with the money you will save, etc. Really focus on how rosy the future will look without smoking in it!
When I quite, something that helped me was to carry around a 500ml bottle of water (I don't know how many oz that is, but you know what I mean, the one that would fill 1/2 to 2 glasses). This helped because it was a healthy habit that involved holding something in my hand and lifting it to my mouth.
Hope this helps! From someone living in that rosy future you're moving towards, know that its totally worth it!