MilienElayne
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I live in Melbourne and go to Pole Divas in Prahran and LURVE it. Visit! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Sensuality is very individual and I still find it hard to connect sometimes. To freestyle and to choregraph routines I have taught myself to move to music and to do what my body seems to want to do for transitions and dance steps (this has taken me 2 years and I’m still not there yet)… but when learning I need a strict breakdown of simple sensual moves every one else can seem to do without thought. It annoys me when for the sake of individuality and dance freedom no-one has mentioned that I’ve been doing something ‘wrong’ for weeks when I could have been doing it a lot better for me. For example, booty popping… I never knew physically how to until I watched Veena’s lessons. I’m by no means good at it and my booty doesn’t pop much… but before I was air humping! That needs to be mentioned!!!
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I like it. If I weren’t forced, I wouldn’t progress… at all. I need it. Nothing came natural to me except pointing my toes when I started. I still have so far to go in the dance area though. Practice makes perfect https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Thankyou for the replies.
I suppose my instructor can only speak from the experience she’s had and that of the polers she knows. Not everyone has the time or ‘dedication’ *cough* to sit online all day doing pole ‘research’ and ‘networking’ like me to find out this stuff https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif . Good to know the pain can fade in kneehold! I’ll just scrunch up my face and take it like a big bad poler til it does… Heh heh.
I couldn’t imagine doing no hands craddle static, it looks like it’s designed for spin mode https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif For me, some stuff just doesn’t translate smoothly from static to spin and vice versa (even with practice).
I found No Hands Craddle hurt like hell pinching my ‘fat rolls’ (aka. those skin and belly bits you get when you hunch over) and I couldn’t release the hands… It just felt sooo bad. I kept trying with one hand on and trying to find a good position… Eventually, I scooched the flub over to the side of the pole rather than on it (I tucked it towards my head rather than letting it push into the pole) so that there was a flat bit of tummy/hip on the pole and then I could squeeze my abs and squeeze my legs into the pole with my arms and it worked. I could release the bottom arm! Then I went for the top arm. Still burnt like I’d fallen asleep in the sun (it still hurts 12 hours later), but it was bearable and not tearable. What are your techniques?
Is that vid of Stellar teaching Stephanie no hands craddle still around? I think there’s something about the bottom arm, that it should be held a certain way?
I haven’t tried Yogini. I am chicken. Teddy is another one that burns… and Allegra. All on the list to eventually nail pain-free https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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Thankyou.
My dietician future sister-in-law (when discussing my pole diet fads and grip vs. beauty product phases) was a little concerned I carried thermoplastics (mighty grip powder) in my purse to use on my skin and spent a lot of time in a studio rolling around in pine tar (girls are messy… all over the floor, the poles, me)… Also, my employers (parents of the kids I nanny for) are obsessed with BPA free and other related baby stuff. Gets me thinking.
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Ok, I talk out of my ass as in my own personal Psych grad style, I’ve forgotten all of my biology, physiology and anatomy since I left school https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif . I can’t find any studies on the effects of such grip aids or their ingredients on the body. And, I should say I wouldn’t stop using them if there were. Are you a biochemist, perchance? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Just because it’s ‘natural’ doesn’t mean it’s not toxic. Many poisons are. Plants secrete resin and it puts off herbivores because it is toxic to them. Resins are used to make turpentine, varnish, glues and it’s used in cement… Thankyou, Wikipedia…https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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I rub my hands in it many times a week!
Sounds like what I used in ballet on my slippers as a kid and now in pole class and in aerial circus classes. All the aerialists here use it daily on their hands for trapeze, hoop, chinese pole, ropes and silks… The pole dancers here use all sorts of stuff.
It’s yellow rock rosin? We have it in crystals, it gets crushed and put in trays, we rub our hands in the powder left over. It might be different stuff here: different quality, different source, different stickiness? It gets super tacky in summer when everything is hot and sweat abounds, sometimes I can’t static spin at all and have to rub it off with metho and a towel (what I have to hand in a pole class, the bathroom would mean I miss something!)… but now in winter I sometimes have to reapply. I don’t really need it now that I have good grip and pole experience, but I still like it for peace of mind. I find it comes off my hands onto the pole a little through class, and it doesn’t rip my skin at all. If it’s still there, I wash it off with soap and water. It and any other grip product come off metal poles easily with whatever metho concoction they use at the studio or at home I use windex. What I find rips me to pieces and gets stuck on things is iTac. Some people love it though.
If rosin is toxic, I am screwed. Often I forget it’s on my hands and I’ll eat between or after pole classes and that means I’m basically ingesting it too.
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I don’t know how, and I was leaving it open to one of the girls who already do it https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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Brass is a bit rare, where do you dance?
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Mine pull if there’s any broken or dry skin at all. Smooth and moisturised…but I try not to do anything to them on a pole day. It’s worse with grip products too… and I find I get really bad ones on painted/plastic poles, on brass and on 38mm.
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I have had holes… I’ve taken to mine with nail scissors or picked at them with teeth and nails when they get big… and that tears the skin off and does leave a hole and can become a wound. Gross!
Pumice stones do nothing for me and leaving them alone just annoys the heck out of me!
So… I showered and got them all soft, then I had a weird idea… I’ll just use my normal razor that I use for my legs and… it worked! Just shaved away til there was no peeling any more… Took the bump off and left it smooth… Still a hard callous, but it’s flush with the rest of my skin and doesn’t rub. That way I can’t possibly cut out too much (as with a blade or scissors) and it’s smooth (not rough like how a stone leaves me…with stringy bits).
Maybe TMI, but it works for me!
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Karol has photos earlier in this thread (aka on this page!) and there are some on WikiPole here: http://www.triagedesign.co.uk/wikipole/index.php5?title=Shoulder_Mount. Veena has a photo of Veena Grip on her profile with her in a SM super invert (which she should get put onto WikiPole *hint* https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif … and then there’s Elbow Grip, which I’ve just stumbled on: https://www.studioveena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4318
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Awesome, thanks ladies! Someone should get their photo up on wikipole for this move!
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I’d like to be notified when someone comments on my profile or comments back on a comment I made on their profile. Don’t know if that’s been suggested or is being worked on?
