MilienElayne
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You could ask about/look up prep moves and progressions of what they are teaching, or moves that are similar but more stable/grounded or reverse the actions so you come down into it etc. Eg. If they’re kicking into handstands against the pole, you could do headstands against the wall to get used to being upside down. If they’re doing handsprings, you could work on your ayshas to stabilize the end position etc etc. Check out Veena’s lessons and hopefully your instructor can help 🙂 Deadlifts are all the rage here for Adv pole and going to workshops with super strong polers makes me want to cry especially when there aren’t any alternatives given or progressions talked about – I am tall and over-flexy, my joints are not stable enough to just lift like that even after years of pole. I am going slow and super steady with my strengthening and if I get there, cool, if not… *shrug* – there is so much more to pole than what I CAN’T yet do or maybe ever do but that’s totally ok because I can do amazing things already and have many more amazing things yet to learn. (I was amazing as a beginner too, and so are you! All pole is amazing!) The possibilities with pole are never ending so don’t let one move or class of moves stop you from being your awesome pole self!
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I have always craved food pretty much 24/7 my entire life and am just now experiencing this same non-interest in food in phases. I can link it to periods of self-loathing, depression, sadness, being too busy/caught up in what I am doing (all triggers for over-eating in the past though). Something new is blood pressure changes (high blood pressure makes me feel sick, full and tired) which occurs in the week before and during my period. I sometimes have to force myself to eat breakfast and drink water in the mornings if I know I’m going out or working out and my hunger isn’t a drive to eat, it’s my body starting to weaken. Also happens if I’m dehydrated. I seem to enjoy the feeling of an empty stomach whereas I used to enjoy a stuffed full one. I’ve just turned 29 and am thinking maybe my body’s hunger drive has just started to slow down because I am not growing any more, or I’m less anxious on a daily basis (continual ruminations, stresses from SAD). The more my body gets used to exercise too (sometimes several times a day, finally getting back into the rhythm I was in 3-4 years ago – but then I was always hungry) the less it gives me those usual signals to eat ravenously. It’s like I have to switch it back on by drinking cool water and being still bodily and mentally for 10-15 minutes. My digestion is also out of whack more often as I’m getting older. I too have cut out most dairy (still eat cheese occasionally and don’t check inclusions on packets) and avoid things like pork belly and slow braised beef cheek as the huge animal fat concentration makes me ill. I’ve also found block out blinds in the bedroom are messing with my circadian rhythms and I sleep better (and then eat better/feel better) waking up more naturally.
So interesting! I’m so sorry it’s worrying you. I hope you figure out the reasons/triggers in a non-expensive/non-invasive way!
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Get tube, have a loop welded nicely to the top by a professional and a plastic (or other) cap put on the bottom. Done.
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Yep, stripper sites or your local sex shop. Buckles and clips work well rather than ties and velcro.
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Doing a split lying back down on the floor takes a similiar amount of flexibility as doing a standing forward split. If you do manage a flat split in either of those positions, your hips will not be square. I call them 'diagonal' and I use them 'for show'. Your front leg will be a little to the side because your body is in the way… your leg will rest on your shoulder and brush your ear and you'll be struggling to keep your bottom leg straight and on the floor, it's good to have someone press it down for you. However, if you are only doing the position to stretch and not 'for show' then try to keep the hips square, that'll stretch your hammies better than relaxing and pulling slightly diagonally to get a show split.
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I love it. I'm allergic to lots of stuff too. I can't pole with any moisturiser on within 12 hours and most irritate me too. But with PP I don't have to worry about any of that.
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Thanks Hannah, it feels like a SM lock, so good name.
Katana, the pole sits on the shoulder and side of the neck, just like in part of the shoulder mount to legs on the pole combo. At first I was holding it by squeezing between my neck and shoulder, but I worked at it a bit to relax and square my shoulders so there was less angled hunching. My breasts are both on the same side of the pole, no tissue damage 🙂 There is a variation where you roll through over the collarbone and you hold it along your breastbone and bared stomach, but I can't take my hands off in it.
Jenn, I have seen and tried shoulder splits, it's with the ankle hooked…but I can only get one hand off in it and haven't seen two hands off, but with the right angles and flexibility it's probably been done. Much more dangerous though, neither the hands or the legs are poised to catch a fall :S Also, my lines aren't flat in it, so I don't like it…:P
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I love all the differences. The thinner the pole the faster it spins… probably a good thing that thinner poles generally have better grip. Heh heh. Weeeee!
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Oh ok, I’m at Prahran.
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I’m at Divas too https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif I don’t recognise ‘layback’ as a Divas term, do you mean ‘layout’ (aka Plank) or ‘back crucifix’ (aka Cross Ankle Release)? Which studio are you going to?
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I had thought I should be strong enough to lift TG and had been told by my instructors that I should be able to do it considering everything else I can do. I’ve been to the physio lately for what I thought was a slight pull or knot in my infraspinatus (part of rotator cuff). My humerus is poised to come out of the socket with slight manipulation (I have some hypermobile joints) and my infraspinatus in both shoulders is significantly weak. My physio was very very suprised by the amount I can do on the pole, how much all my other muscles must be compensating and how bad the weakness is considering the amount of strengthening I do and the focus I have on my shoulders. I don’t know how I’ve been missing these muscles, it seems impossible, but it’s happened. She thinks I may have damaged and healed tendons in the shoulder that is ‘out’ a while ago and not noticed. She’s massaged the knot out over a few weeks and the muscle has stopped ‘guarding’ and not letting me stretch it and I’ve been strengthening like a good girl, but it will take a lot of time. Til then, I have to stay away from TG handspring because it’s too jerky, Iron X because I can drop out of it badly (I partially dislocate my shoulders and not notice), or any TG lift exercises because it’s too heavy. Thankfully I can hold TG aysha and straight edge and do a controlled pike ‘roll down’. I have always been a bit angry at myself for not being able to do a full pushup, thinking I was just being a princess about it, but I actually can’t physically do them (yet).
SO, the point being… strengthen your infraspinatus. This is basically what I am doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotator_cuff#Strengthening. Veena’s external and internal shoulder rotation lessons (under strength) are awesome.
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Wish I’d seen that one post on this thread recommending Dermablend much MUCH earlier. Just discovered it and it’s a LIFE SAVER. I’m a stripper (new to that, not to pole) and bruise very easily from pole… Bruises lose me money.
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Here it is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-zZIGfMIgI
To illiminate the sit, keep momentum and so you don’t need to regrip the right hand you have to swing your legs to the opposite side of the pole to the one you flip down. I too chopper naturally with the pole to my left and my outside hand (right) on top as well. In the video though, I’ve just realised, my left hand comes off and goes above my right hand so it doesn’t get tangled in legs and my other arm. I am still choppering with the pole to my left. So it’s a chopper with ‘wrong’ hand grip. I sometimes chopper with ‘wrong’ hands and do so for strengthening exercises, such as the chopper switch I described in the above post.
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I think Veena’s lessons on it are awesome and there are a LOT of tips and hints in the forums already if you search for them.
As far as what I did first, I do things in bad order. I learned it from a vid of Karol’s where she does SM to Brass Monkey. I wanted Brass Monkey and that’s why I taught myself SM. I started with the full SM (cupped grip) with a slight kick and with bent legs and took it straight to Brass Monkey hook. I didn’t know you were meant to flip it to Crucifix when first learning. I moved to a lift with bent legs and went into Tammy. Then I learned it catching in Crucifix. Then, I saw that you can hold it for ages in a V and did that. I moved to straightening both legs gradually, just by drilling it over and over, til I could get up and over to a V with them locked. Then I slowed that down more and more. Then I learned SM splits, super invert, and SM drops. I moved to aerial SM combinations to learn DeathLay. I learned SM flip to the floor in cupped grip. I’ve just gotten Respect Grip solid (took me aaages) and found SM flip to sit MUCH easier in that. Have been working on and recently perfected the SM flag and SM lift straight legs from a sit on the floor https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif Still working on hops up the pole. Have done that a few times. I’m probably missing something.
