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Yeah, I don’t think there can be many!

Thank you for your help! 🙂

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Thank you Veena!! Yes, I remember your classes listed points of contact, you are a visionary, aren’t you? 🙂

Yes, those are a lot of moves with 2 points! thank you so much!! now, are there any with one point of contact other than Ayesha, Handsprint or Iron X?

Thank you!!

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Hey girls, I also have IG @gisellepoleart add me there and let me know it’s you so I follow back. So looking forward to this challenge!! 🙂

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YAY Erin! You will love it, for sure! 🙂

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Cool! Thank you so much! It will be fun to try this, plus it is a challenge to test myself 🙂 looking forward to it! 🙂

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I never joined a challenge and I would love to start with this one 🙂 but since I never participated, I’m have stupid questions 😄 should we share videos or photos? Is it one per day or can we post in random days? Finally, should these be posted in that order? Sorry! Newbie here 😄😄😄

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Instagram closed your account for copyright infringement???? Some of my posts got blocked due to this but never something as drastic as that! What seems to be working A LOT for me (100% of the time) is posting the video where I’m dancing to music playing live during the video. I mean, if I edit the video and add music, IG will block it. If I play music during my performance, combo of trick it will be totally fine. Good luck with your new account, I hope your experience this time is much better than before!

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following! 🙂

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I now live in Lachen, but I will move close to Brugg in a couple of months 🙂

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Where in Switzerland do you live??

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Thank you!! I’m so glad too haha! It’s amazing how strength can increase so suddenly! Waiting for my next strength peak to get iron X and deadlifts now LOL!

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Dear all,

I just wanted to update you about my back issues.

After I wrote this post, I was in and out of pole due to continue injuries in my back. No matter how much I rested, and tried conditioning exercises, I was getting injuries after a little move a bit stronger than my back could endure.

I went to a physio, which helped a lot, but didn’t solve the problem.

However, around a year after I wrote this post, and after coming back from, again, a back injury, I realized that I was able to do tricks with much more ease than before. Things I was not able to do in the past, were super easy to perform. Also, tricks that I was already doing, felt way easier and lighter than before.

So, my assumtion is that I just got stronger! When having these pains, my back and body overall was too weak, but for some reason, after a break, suddenly I got stronger! Now it’s been more than 8 months totally pain free!! 🙂 don’t get me wrong, I’m now VERY conscious every time I invert, or go down from a shoulder mount (this is how I used to get injured), but even though I’ve been training 2 to 3 times a week, I haven’t had pain in many months.

Just wanted to post this in case someone is having similar issues as I had, as I think this might give some light to some people.

I really appreciate your comments and advises, and I HOPE not having to write back here never again! haha!

Hugs,
Papillon

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I’m also new on Instagram! Not sure how it works really, but I’m ready to learn 🙂 @gisellepoleart 🙂

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I had the same problem as you, I felt I was the weakest of my class and I couldn’t really hold my positions. I think that after around 7-8 months I slowly started to feel an improvement. I think practicing my Ayesha and holding my whole body upside down, gave me lots of strength in my arms. Don’t get discouraged, we all had the same issue 😉

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Julia Marie, I had an extremely strong pain under my left shoulder blade that hurted incredible, by just moving, breathing and sneezing. It started with the inversions, and then with shoulder mounts.
I rested for around 2-3 months, I went to a physio (a really great one) who gave me a therapy of not only massages, but actually pressing very strongly where the injury was. He also made me work out with machines in order to streghten my muscles. It really helped and the pain was gone.

BUT the injury is still there…When doing some floorwork where that muscle is in use, it comes back again. I’ve tried a shoulder mount last week, and I had this deep and strong pain in the same place. Fortunately, it was inmediately gone, but I had to stop and try on the other side.

I know how frustrated you feel…I know this exactly… 🙁