MilienElayne
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No way!!!! Can’t wait to see this for real!
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Just nailed my forearm aysha… and did a split grip for like 2 seconds the other day in studio, but needs so much more balance! Need to try elbow grip again now I have my hand grip sorted at home https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif Might be able to get it and put more input here. Leaning out really does help.
HOW do you booty pop an aysha???!!! I really really want to pop the booty in an aysha in my routine to go with the lyrics of the song I am working with and I just can’t seem to get it. Maybe it’s because I have no booty…. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif I think it might be more of a case of me arching and straightening my back to make it look like I’m popping… very different to being right way up and not fighting gravity…lol. Will probably put a vid up sometime this week of my inverted booty fails…heh heh.
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Eeeeee! I am excited and I’m not even in the country…. ha ha https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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I am always writing lists. So many lists…
I’ve read somewhere that some girls have full on spreadsheets with possible combinations and everything. That would be SO cool to have.
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I used to go into bow and arrow and pencil to lunchbox from a CKR because my back arches more naturally and there’s more room to move my hands behind me and less chance I’ll slip out of a CAR before I get a hand grip. But I’ve been working on my CAR a lot and have neglected all these moves… oops. If you can Brass Monkey, you could go into a foot hook from there and around to a pencil, then lunchbox, I think. I should actually try that…
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I started out ‘self-taught’ and had my pole for a year, but I wasn’t dedicated. I did tricks for photos to show off and my entrances and exits sucked and I could NOT dance (still am pretty bad)… oh and I had put on 15 kilos since high school… so I started classes at the beginning of 2009. So addicted!
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Hi Anna!
Welcome to poling and to SV!
I’m in Melbourne. Whereabouts are you?
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Some more park photos and a street sign:
Need to face out and not up, bad habit looking at my own legs.
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Tree sap contains resins. Pine tar based grip could work. I was wondering what the difference between resin and rosin is… Rosin is solidified resin, which is what we use in pole class (crushed up to a powder), what some gymnasts use and what I used to rub on the bottom of my ballet shoes when I was a kid. I so need to find a supplier so I can have some for home.
I managed a gemini and a reverse aysha at the park the other day (as well as butterfly and extended butterfly and failed my aysha attempt…aw), but I bared my hip to get grip, not sure if your modest costume allows for that? Also did a CKR on a street pole in jeans… would need a super grippy pole like with butterfly balm, or you could go chinese pole style and cover your pole in rubber matting, you’d have SUPER grip…lol.
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Just thinking… same goes for spinning mode. You could try everything both sides and also spinning both ways, so that’s four different ways to think about!
Seriously, lately I’ve been really actually forgetting which side is my dominant side for each particular move. I hit static class and go to climb on my gumbi side and can’t figure out why I’m having to pull up with my hands so hard.
We’ve been learning new moves in longer combo sequences lately and sometimes I’ll be using dominant side for the first move, then switch to non-dominant side for the next move, again on non-dominant side for different pressure points, then finishing in dominant side (or something like that) and then I’ll also try it spinning in the opposite direction and … just does my head in. Having trouble remembering which side to start on for each combo for my test on Wednesday and I am wanting to put my own little moves and finishing touches in there, but just remembering the sequence and executing it without making it too messy takes all my concentration…lol.
Damn you, gumbi side!
Wait wait… then there’s also doing moves backwards on both sides and spinning in both directions! My math fails me now.
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thanks, fleur! i can’t believe some of the moves she can do in jeans with that stuff! not sure i’d want it on my skin though, from the looks of her face…lol
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Where’s this Karol jeans dance?
What are you wearing? Do you still have arm, lower leg, knee pit and shoulder exposure? Hmm. So what moves don’t need the thigh and tummy regions? Could do flag, shouldermount…then shouldermount split… if you can get into a butterfly you could also maybe get into a with-hand gemini and could do a reverse aysha from that? Getting down might be hard. Um, can do cartwheel kicks, reverse grab spins, drop splits… In theory there’s lots of holds and spins that just use hands and positioning… but entrance and exit might be tricky…. hmmm. Let us know how you go!
This should be a challenge suggestion!
There’s a vid of TaraKarina doing a dance in jeans around a washing line that might be a good reference. Also browse http://triagedesign.co.uk/wikipole/index.php5?title=Pole_Move_Directory for pics of people doing moves fully clothed for more ideas?
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I think you’d also need to avoid refined sugars (bread, pasta, most cookies? not sure) as well as bad fats, caffiene and alcohol. Maybe wholemeal stuff is ok? Check with your doctor and ask to see a dietician!
I read somewhere that smaller and more frequent meals helps not to over stress the pancreas as it has to make less juices at a time to help with digestion.
What’s recommended seems to be: whole grains, legumes (beans, peas, chickpeas…), fruits and vegetables and very lean meat (but again check that with your doctor and ask for a referal to a dietician). All good to keep your energy up.
I’m not on a diet for medical reasons or to really lose weight or anything, but I do try to eat low fat, natural, whole and fresh foods as much as possible because my body seems to like it and then my mind does as well.
I love whole rolled oats, muesli, raw fruit and veggies in a big variety, but steamed is good too (only it makes me gag if over done), can roast veges and to cut down the oil you just have to roll them lightly in it and you can even pat some of it off with paper towel… meat and protien is where I have trouble… Sometimes I’ll have a hard boiled egg (but is that fatty?)…low fat chicken which I get as lunch meat that’s nearly fat free breast meat, or just chicken roasted in its own juices with a simple herb crust and then cut off the skin and extra fat, or you can cut everything bad off and poach it in a clear asian vege soup maybe… Lean white fish is easy to do steamed or is yummy baked wrapped in foil with some fresh herbs and lemon slices. Soups are good and easy to make entirely fat free vegetarian style and/or you can add lentils or beans or chickpeas or noodles or some meat or tofu. I never have time to make soups though and my partner hates them for some reason.
Hmmm…. so high carb and fruit brekkie, some carbs and protien for lunch with fruit and veg sides or snacks, and veges and meat or meat subsitutes for dinner.
If I feel low I have a piece of fruit, a sweet vege like capsicum or a slice of cheese for a small quick snack and make sure I drink heaps of water cause I mistake hunger for thirst and vice versa sometimes. (Not sure if you can have much diary though, bit fatty?). But perhaps you could bake oat type cookies? With grated carrot and raisins and ginger is yummy and energising. Lemongrass tea would also help keep you awake.
Not sure if this was helpful? I cook as little as possible for myself and the babies I care for at work who I cook for have no diet restrictions (except they should eat healthy, duh) as to fats and carbs/sugars and they’re growing. So their food recipes wouldn’t be helpful to you. Most of what I eat is like cut lunch style if I can get away with it. Not helpful as to recipes… Sorry!
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I can’t fully split any way on the floor but still do pole split moves. I can sometimes get down into front splits on the floor, but still getting back to it after I partially tore a hammy a few months ago. I do cartwheel kicks into splits (tore hammy this way dropping too far and too quickly instead of controlled), shoulder splits, oona splits, chopper folded out and lowered into splits, have tried skater splits… I’m starting to lower myself into straddle splits from a pole up (so I can lift back up again… so afraid with straddle splits that my weight is going to push me too far and tear something). Nowhere near flexible enough to get on pole – up and down or straddle splits. Just can’t get myself into position. Would love to be able to do standing split putting my front leg on the pole and a free standing back split (like in yoga and ice skating?).
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I have trouble inverting from a climb too. A lot of it is in my head, and some of it is strength and positioning. I have to remember to lift up into it like I would from the ground. So I go into a pole pull up (from the pole stand, climb, sit or whatever I am in) before I flip over into a chopper. I barely ever engage my abs, so they’re still flabby and weak. They’re so fricking lazy, I can barely do all the ab work on the floor we do towards the end of pole classes, and my push ups suck really badly. But I can do lifted shouldermounts from floor pretty easy, and am up to straight leg choppers lifted from the floor? Just not aerial… ha ha. Need stronger abs to make aerial choppers and aerial shouldermounts easier. Ooh and what’s helping me slowly build more arm and ab strength is doing spider climbs every week. I’m up to 9 now! Spider climbs -> ( http://ver3.studioveena.com/lessons/view/2613 )
