MilienElayne
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Scroll up, I’ve given my two cents about Pole Physics Lotion. Have it, love it! I can’t use anything else.
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Oh NO! Totally forgot to ask Veena first if it was ok to put up a tutorial style post…Eek. Sorry!
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Thanks ladies! Still up in the air about this one. So much pole-itics where I am right now. Laying low til I know what’s going on!
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Pole Physics, moisturiser formulated specifically for pole dancers: http://www.polephysics.com/
They say to leave 7 or more hours between moisturising and poling, but I do it maybe 20 minutes before (even leaving it on my hands). I don’t have excessively dry skin and have had many grip issues in the past with products and sweating and I have no problems at all now https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif I train on 38 and 50mm brass, 45mm stainless and 45 and 50m chrome. Finally I can moisturise whenever I want and not have my poling affected!
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I’ve only ever had skin pinching, a nice hicky https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif, and just at first. I sit the pole on the muscles right next to my neck to mount up and when I roll over I take my weight with my hooked legs. Watch Veena’s lesson. At no point is the collarbone in contact with the pole! http://ver3.studioveena.com/lessons/view/2677. Listen to what she says at 3.50. It can also hurt if you use too much momentum and don’t control the move enough causing you to bang into the pole at different points. Play with different grip types and the distance between your hands and shoulder til you find what works best for you. Check here for grip discussion: https://www.studioveena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2669&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30
Good luck! This is one of my all time fav moves https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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I am so STOKED for Fontaine! She used to teach me when she was with Pole Divas. I get to have a private with her next week https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Yay, thanks!
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Maybe look up contortion moves and make sure you’re doing the stretches with the correct form. Sometimes you can do what you think the stretch is and it’s easy, but as soon as you square up or flatten out properly you feel it a lot. I’d also speak to a physio or other specialist familiar with hypermobility just to check what you plan to do is ok.
I have pretty good oversplits on one side (one leg front, one leg back), but I get into it by relaxing everything in my hips and hamstrings and can do it cold, which doesn’t stretch me. I agree that you could find resistance stretching (where you tense, I think? Look it up, maybe?) better. One stretch for my hammies that I find works me is the one where you put both legs together (slightly apart so your head and body has somewhere to go) extended sitting down with feet flexed and trying to keep my back flat, butt out and legs straight while easing my chest and tummy onto the floor. I really can’t do it (may be that my ‘bad’ side hammy is nowhere near flat splits? lol). Also the one where you stand with legs apart and flatten your back and try to stick your head directly between your feet and maybe touching the floor. If it’s easy wide you can always make it less so. It’s also a good one to swing from side to side in to focus on each leg individually, this also stretches me more. There are also stretches for different parts of some longer muscles, I have problems with the upper hamstring, others find less flexibility nearer to the knee, so maybe looking into that would help?
Hope I helped… and not confused you https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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Forgot to link to the vid of me practicing with Tic Toc for the second time: http://ver3.studioveena.com/lessons/view/5082. Just saw Amber Ray’s MPD comp vid from last year (I think? They’ve changed the naming system): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fwI50t3yyc with a Tic Toc at 1.56 where she hooks the bottom leg around the pole to get an oversplit. I so have to try that. My oversplit is at chair height now, so hopefully I can https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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WOW
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If you have strong enough leg grip and good enough abs you can just pull up without the foot hook. I take it around to Lunchbox sometimes (but then getting out of that is a similar issue https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
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I have social anxiety disorder and comorbid depression. Life was a constant buzzing in my head, crying at least once a day, imagining everyone hated me and was judging me, emotional over eating, heart palpitations, hyperventilation, hot flushes…When I became suicidal I started therapy, had drugs etc etc. and it staved off the worst… but then I found pole dancing. It gave me my life back. I’m now drug free, 15kg lighter, no longer need my therapist, have healthy relationships and live comparitively anxiety and depression free.
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WOW! Alethea is so super AMAZING! That’s crazy! And totally jealous you got to have that lesson https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Ok, so I’ve got Tic Toc, Jade and Allegra now and I actually enter them all the same way – Gemini, Scorpio, Half Jade… then from there, hand placement dictates what move I’m going into. (Yep, I know it’s weird to do Half Jade from Scorpio, but otherwise my hip does not contact the pole at all in any hip hold move and I just end up holding between my thighs – personal quirk)
If my full Jade was strong enough to hold with both hands holding the front ankle, I think it would actually be possible to grab the pole and Tic Toc it down. It’d have to try it (when I get there), but it works in my head.
Video soon https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
In the meantime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRFVFOA-VRQ at 6.53 a mash of a Jade and an Allegra lowered to the ground like it’s a Tic Toc to confuse you further. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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Wait, is it Jenyne? How can anyone watch that and disapprove at all?
