MissJulie
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What lovely transitions. This is my new fav.
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Yeay, I learned so much and can’t wait to do it again
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Mine doesn’t care either. He doesn’t understand what I’m trying to do when I actually do it so he’s not impressed because he’s not sure if I meant to do it or not. The whole thing bores him and he makes fun of me grunting when I straddle and the sounds the pole makes. He’s not intimidated by it, he just would rather see what’s on TV. He isn’t impressed when girls do it at clubs either- he just cares about whether he sees tits or not. And he thinks I spend too much money on pole stuff.
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Thanks, Cricket. Come back to Austin anytime https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Hi everyone,
I’m with Brass Ovaries Pole dancing and I’m NASM (National Association of Sports Medicine) certified and getting a Pole Position Fitness certification in February. My NASM cert is about to expire and I’m not sure if I should get ISSA certification as planned (a very well respected personal training exam) or ACE. ACE seems to be preferred by pole instructors, can I ask why? Is it because they have a group exercise focus?
Julie
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Can we create a topic for workshops just so some of us who live in the middle of the country can keep a tab on what’s going on and maybe worth flying out to? I’m probably not going to make this one or the USPDF one, but I’d like to prepare for a field trip this year somewhere https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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I’m bringing one more. Sorry to be last minute.
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Going to try my darndest
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I don’t do hack squats or standing calf raises at the gym because I believe these compress my spine and I already have scoliosis. However, I’ve never felt any pressure or pain doing the shoulder mount. The pole rests pretty comfortably on my trap and I’ve never been bruised from it. There’s occasional soreness, but this is usually in my back, serratus, and obliques which seems like very normal workout related soreness. What i CAN see is the ‘unsafeness’? of the shoulder mount grip which is traditionally a cup grip and doesn’t have the stability of a full grip, however there are alternative grips.
Out of all my students however…. I have yet to have a student who I feel is advanced enough to teach the shoulder mount to, I have to say. Sometimes a girl will come in for a workshop with a more advanced teacher who can SM, but usually these are teachers from other cities who have moved to Austin.
I think people need to be taught how to fall properly too. It’s not enough to know they can do the move. I’m at the point where I’m just used to falling and lately practice falling out of extended butterfly… I land like a cat and somehow flip over to land on my butt every time, I just don’t want to do a move like that on a hardwood floor until I can gracefully cartwheel out of it
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At 9am? I can definitely make it, although I might have to stay in a hotel Friday night??? Not sure how bad the traffic would be if I left South Austin at 5-6am. I’m sure I’d hit rush hour either in Round Rock or South Dallas. Is anyone else interested in splitting a room Friday night?
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Stellarmotion did a great job of displaying how to get into it here, more slowly and closer up than Jenyne’s video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMnb1RDPT4I can see where this looks like twisted ballerina… Jenyne taught us this one but I dont remember it very well… I do remember it was a lot easier to get into than what David is doing to get into it… so it seems like if you try to go into it straight from twisted ballerina as opposed to bending down and twisting your arm up the pole, you’d fall off?
Does anyone have a video of jenyne or anyone doing twisted ballerina for comparison?
I tried this move last night and only got about half way there, I got the pole around my upper arm but not in my armpit, so it didn’t seem stable enough to let go. Going to try again as soon as I get over being sick.
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Absolutely no experience of any kind except for lifting weights for years beforehand and very minimal recreational/informal dancing plus yoga. I always say if I could do one thing over again I would have taken gymnastics, although gymnastics can be more harmful than doing nothing if you have a bad coach. I was the ugly/bullied kid in school from about 3rd grade to the end of highschool, so I wouldn’t have been caught dead near any sort of sports/cheerleading/etc unfortunately.
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Does anyone know about West Coast yet?
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Wish I could say it was when I was 18/19….. I did try to do a cross knee release once as a waitress when I was 23 and I also learned fireman spin and princess spin.. but then I didn’t do anything again until I turned 26, 2 years ago.
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When I refer to dropping into cross ankle from Pike I’m definitely thinking of Felix as she does this as well, but the more dramatic version I saw that made me incorporate it was at 6:40 in Marlo’s Pole Superstar performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RN8QeFPfho
