PippiParnasse
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@Elektra I also lived in Paris and have spent time in Berlin. (And live in Boston as you know.) Random!
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Yeah I’m easy to find, I’m like the only Pippi
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Yay! I 9-5 but am around eves/weekends. And Salem is sooooooo great!!
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YAY new friends! 😀
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Kettlebell swings are best for butt. But I’d agree that if you’re trying to lift & lengthen, various leg lifts are good. And just a good habit to practice is to really use your glutes to drive your leg to the floor when you’re doing things like jade splits, outside leg hang (when the free leg is straight), etc. getting used to that feeling.
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I live in Salem MA and love to hang out and meet people but am also sadly without a car for the time being. So anybody who wants to jam has to come to me! I pretty much only pole “out” when I can snag a ride.
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I love my brass and I find it more reliably grippy than other finishes. But I do find it to be very sensitive to temperature. Turn a space heater directly on it before you use it (while you are warming up is great), as hot and as long as you can without feeling a sweat coming on. Also, respect that the pole needs time to warm up to practice just like you do. Start your training session with moves that don't require a lot of grip, like spins. Let that friction work its magic, and by the time you're ready for the more grip-dependent stuff it should be ready to support you.
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Yayy! I just moved here a few months ago so I don't know a ton of people yet 🙂
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Chemgoddes makes an excellent point about it being a safety move, or a "bail" as I like to say. It is worth being patient enough to make friends with it before you move on. It's the kind of thing you not only want to be able to do, but to be able to do quickly at the drop of a hat no matter how tired or sore you are!
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Just want to mention that, in my experience, calling yourself vegan or vegetarian or semi-vegetarian varies regionally. When I lived in Europe I found that most people I knew there who called themselves "vegetarians" ate fish and maybe poultry, whereas in the US "vegetarian" usually means ovo-lacto but no fish. And there are as many levels of veganism as there are vegans, from non-ovo-lacto vegetarians (who still eat honey and wear leather) to not eating anything with sugar because you don't know if the sugar was whitened with animal bones.
Whichever you are, thank you for your compassion towards animals! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_heart1.gif
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I also thought I was the only one. 🙂 I attributed my aversion to the screaming to the fact that I hang around with men a lot, and you know, they don't, like, scream.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the support. Audience enthusiams is really rewarding.
Oh, also? It's really awkward when people are screaming and then you do something that YOU think/know is cool/difficult, but the more vocal members of the audience don't "get it" and all of a sudden the room's quiet and you lose your morale… but then that's part of knowing how to work a room, I guess.
Incidentally, I have a background in opera, and audience members definitely do shout "brava," but typically the ones who are passionate enough to yell also know the music so well that they know the exact times when it's appropriate.
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Amen to that!
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Haha well if you’re advertising yourself as “world famous” then yeah, people better have heard of you…
I’ve been poling for 9 years so I know where you’re coming from. And no, you would not have been able to find much info about me online before my previous relocation. I didn’t have a need before then for an online presence. But I also never claimed to be famous or a master at anything. That’s what we in journalism would label “self-described…”
But I still say judge Natasha’s work on its own merit. If it’s really awesome and helpful, I don’t care how famous she is. 🙂
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Right, I mean I'd be more interested in feedback about the product than the inventor.
Incidentally, I've been asked to write books and make training videos before. And a part of me hesitates because even though I know the people who do know me and have worked with me would be excited about it, I just know others would do the "who the hell is this person" thing, and I don't want to go through that.
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The pole and circus worlds are big enough that we all don’t know each other/haven’t heard of each other. I caught a lot of flack from some people when I moved to a new area because they “hadn’t heard of me” because I didn’t have an online presence before that (I didn’t need it). Truthfully, I hadn’t heard of them either.
This experience makes me really want to give people the benefit of the doubt and judge a tree by its fruit. People outside our usual circles are most likely to have a fresh, unique take on things.
Also, as a writer, I can say that people who write books (articles blogs etc) are not usually the people at the top of the industry. They are writers who have some level of expertise in what they’re writing about.
