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Just shared it in spanish so that polers here will vote for it too!!!
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I just voted and I will keep voting
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I find this thread very funny!!! I guess you must all have very big xmas trees…here they are small and made of plastic so I don't think I could split on it (:
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I am pro mj but I admit there's a problem to it. Sometimes it's hard to make some people understand when they have become psycologically addicted, they are in denial and it's hard to help them. I guess this happens with any addiction.
In my perosnal experience, I used to buy every 3 months and when I didn't have it I didn't even think about it, I didn't even remember to buy every month but when I had it at home I couldn't keep from smoking every day. Just a small dose every day was affecting me because I felt kind of silly all the time and after the first week without stopping I didn't even enjoy it much, I just slept and ate too much, it made me depressed and sometimes by the end of the month I got sick from the bad habits. Feeling silly and slow affected my training a lot so as I noticed I couldn't keep it at home without abusing it I just stopped buying. I tried being responsible about it so I could continue using it because I like it but I always found an excuse like "I had a bad day, I'll smoke a joint and relax" or "I had a good day, I'll smoke a joint and celebrate". And after a week I would start being late everywhere, including work. So right now I only smoke in very rare ocassions and I don't keep any at home. I will not buy it while training, but probably I'll get some for summer vacations when I spend most of my time with my best friends who don't smoke much and they don't want me to smoke everyday. I think one must have some rules to respect that depend on the person. In my case it's "not while training" and "not while I'm alone".
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I also think the sexy fundamentals and floorwork dvds are too simple. I think they are specially for beginners or people who are advanced in tricks but have SERIOUS problems with flow or have never gone to any type of dancing classes. For someone advanced most of the stuff she teaches here are obvious. She takes a lot of time to explain very simple stuff and the most difficult moves are explained briefly more like "and if you are advanced you can practice this one". There was a particular move I was expecting to find there that I really wanted to learn and I didn't get it more than I got it from watching here doing it in her dances. I think the dvds are very cool and useful for beginners and it would be awesome if in the future there was another one for advanced students (specially advanced floorwork). Also, there are a lot of things she does that I would love her to teach in the dvds that weren't there ): I hope they are in the next.
I didn't buy the dvds because I don't own a credit card. I friend bought them and she invited me to watch them with her because she doesn't speak english and needed translation. And for my friend there was NOTHING "obvious" or "easy". So I realised that though I was surpirsed that some simple stuff were explained, the target of the dvds are people who need to slow down and pay attention to simple details, people who do not take dancing lessons and have to learn how to make their body look pretty when they move and how to create figures when you pose and dance; and they are starting on that from scratch.
Oh, I think the flexibility dvd was great and for every level, there was even some stuff there I had never seen before (like the felix stretch, I didn't know that one).
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I LOVE the rock out challenge idea!!! let's do it!!!
Jessilee: I agree with you, metal is a lifestyle and it has to do with being true to yourself, thinking for yourself, always doing what you think it's right and never letting anyone tell you who to be or what to do. I just liked pole rockers page. (:
I'm excited to see some polers rock!! please make videos!!! I didn't know some of the bands you named…for example 5 finger death punch! I don't know anyone who listens to this band, I loved it! I knew if you named bands or songs I was going to find something new.
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Yes, I do the same as Rikki but I don't like the way it looks for a show, I like going exactly with the music so I always use slower songs but that also rock. For example, I love megadeth but I think it's too much for pole dancing so I dance the intro of 5 magics. Sometimes using thw intros before everything explodes is useful. Or choosing a song that is all slow like metallica's version of Turn the page, I love tat one. Tonight I'll dance ina pub and I'll be dancing A touch of evil by judas priest. It's heavy, sexy and it's not that fast.
what about…do you dance in a special way when you dance to havy metal? Cause when I do I know I use more kicks and waving my hair a lot 😛 I also think slash has great songs to pole to!! thank you all for the ideas!!
veena: do you have any material of your band?? it'd be nice to listen to it (:
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MissMeliss: I don't mean to be pushy but…do it!! DO IT! do a bringin sexy back video! If you feel you don't have the guts to do it, then you should do it and prove yourself wrong! Don't think that you'll be doing somehting silly, tink that even if you don't consider it sexy you are doing it to support the idea of sexy dancing! We don't do it because we think we are sexy, we do it because we want to express how we feel when we are sexy, and everybody is sexy!!! everybody should feel free to express his/her sexy side and this is what we are deffending in a way! that poel dancing is for everyone! not only for good dancers, sexy or beautiful dancers; it's for everyone to enjoy and have fun! I'm sure if you do it you'll have fun too! and if you don't feel safe to post ir for anybody to see you can just post it here and we will encourage you! You'll get credit for it and you'll feel happy you didt it, even more if you think you don't have the guts, you will feel more confident and brave!
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I've tried to make my mom pole dance too. She said she would do just one trick. She did a fireman and then she said "that's it, no more". She's scared of the pole but only because she's scared to try it! The idea of the pleasers is great. I don't know why I didn't think of that. My mom loves shoes. I will try it!
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I think pole dancing in an olympic level would require the same training or the same difficulty as the other disciplines but most of them have years and years of evolution while pole dancing doesn't. Maybe I'm wrong but pole dancing has gotten more acrobatic in the last 10 years?? and other olympic disciplines have been evolving for so much more time that it could make pole dancing look simpler or less complete perhaps?? I don't think Schtoffen meant to be offensive.
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Schtoffen…I think I undertsand what you are saying. I don't think that pole dancing is right now something you have to train since you are four to be able to do it but if it gets in the olympics it will become that, because it will have to compete with a very high level. Of course pole dancing is incredibly difficult but when I started watching videos it wasn't…you know…completely insane. I mean, you can do pretty stuff without being a contortionist but once it is in the olympics I think that will change. I love the fact that pole dancing grows and I love watching contortionists pole dancing or pole dancers coming up with new tricks that are more and more challenging but I don't want it to become just that. I think that in the future it is possible that pole dancing splits into 2 different disciplines: the dance and the vertical bar gymnastics 😛 I just hope people give two different names to the disciplines so that both are respected instead of saying that one of them is pole dancing and the other one is nothing.
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My right shoulder started clicking since I've started doing tg. I thought at first I forced it or I was doing it wrong so it had a problem but it never stopped. It clicks every time I move it, more than 20 times a day, but it's painless so I don't worry. Several pole dancer friends hace permanent pains or clickings…and other dancers and athletes too…I guess we just accepted it. Now that I read this I think I'll go to a doctor just in case.
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I had so much fun watching these links!!! thank you for posting! It was a great week and I felt great participating, I was so stressed out and after I did it I felt so much better, just knowing that I did something that I enjoyed and nobody would judge in a moral nor in a profesional way. No need to hold back or impress anyone. No shyness and no advanced tricks. Just dancing.
I fell in love with pole dancing because it is expressive and sexy. I think most of the tricks are naturaly sexy so I don't understand why somebody would not want to focus on that. I don't fully enjoy pole dancing in a completely acrobatic style, or in a ballet style…I just don't get it. I think you cannot take the sensual part out of dancing tango, you cannot take the sensual part out of bellydancing…and with pole dancing I think it's the same. It's the way the dance was born and I feel it should stay that way no matter how many other elements you can include. Fusions are great and dangerous combos are great too, but I don't think you can take sexy out of pole dancing. It is difficult to pole dance in an emotional and expressive way without sexy, even if it is romantic, nostalgic or whatever, it is always a bit sexy unless you don't express anything at all. And if it doesn't express anything….it is not dancing to me.
I'm glad pole dancing will be in the olympics but I'm sad that it will be shown to the world as a boring sport. I'm sure other disciplines that also are in the olympics are sexy too, right? like ice skating??rythmic gymnastics?? they were sparkly outfits and move pretty sexy to me, at least in artistic and enjoyable performances. It shouldn't be a problem with pole dancing.
Plus….it is ok to pole dance without heels, but to me…heels are a part of it, I hope they accept that in the olympics though I don't think so…but I would like to ask people if they imagine bellydancers without their sexy outfits or tango dancers without heels…I don't think so either… then they should accept the way pole dancing really is.
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I saw this video of bodybinds! it was on facebook's group stripperstyle (: I thought it was a cool idea because it looks great. So many women dancing sexy, is hard to see what everybody is doing at the same time. It is very entertaining!!! Now that I know which one you are I'll watch it again.
I posted my video on stripperstyle too, it was this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7OIGQkmQcQ&feature=plcp
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thank you for the links of the vids!!!