Poledancefan
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If all else fails, try a little bit of 7-up (regular, not diet–it HAS to be sugar). Pour out a tiny little bit on a wash cloth and rub it on your thighs and shins. Wait for it to dry. It’s ridiculously sticky.
ALso, while not graceful for female polers in the begining, try hooking the bottom foot on the pole and CURLING it upwards–instead of the ballet style pointed toes look. That will add a little grip surface down at the bottom.
Lean forward as much as possible. Wear a sleeveless top, halter, or sports bra. There is a tiny little bit of contact area you can "steal" right at the the "clavicle" pit–the fleshy part between the shoulder ball and the pecs. (Not sure what ladies call this part of the body, LOL!)
Joel
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Welcome to the Forum, Nyli!
Joel
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In the last few hours, USPDF qualifying vids have been tumbling in my inbox tray! Redke71 did one, I think Alliegator did one, so did Liantal. I’ve been seeing a bunch of them from Crunch Fitness studio in New York–looks like it will be a well attended event…
Joel
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Welcome! My name is Joel, I live near Chicago. I’ve been poling for about 6 months. Enjoy the forum!
Joel
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Even when a structural piece of equipment is mounted into the wooden framework of a house, there can be settling and shifting over time that moves the timbers and supports. A house will "settle" into a certain position based on the load bearing over decades. Any new weight or change can shift that balance and if something moves enough, plaster or wall board will crack. When we bought this house, it was on the third tier of roofing tiles. When the time came to put on a new roof, the three old layers were torn off–representing a good several hundred–maybe a thousand pounds of tiles. We had to pay carpenters an extra few hundred dollars to replace some cracked roof timbers before the new roof went on.
I could never stand up in the center of the attic. Then, a few months later, hauling down the Christmas tree, I noticed I was standing up straight! Taking the tons of tile off the top of the house had unbowed the timbers and the house was an inch or two taller!
It’s likely you did nothing wrong at all. Old gypsum and plaster is notoriously brittle. It’s likely the normal use of your pole caused a tiny bit of subsidence. When you had the pole party, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back!
One day before we signed our closing documents (13 years ago), a father and son robbery team knocked off the liquor store on the corner with a sawed off shot-gun and came roaring down the street, missing the turn, and hitting our "soon to be front porch." After tense discussions with the insurance company to repair $12, 000 damage to the house, we closed anyway–and haven’t regretted it!
But if you take a marble and put it on any part of hardwood floor you can find, it will always roll to the southwest. Our house is just ever so slightly tilted, now–like an episode of Batman!
Joel
PS: The robbers? Yes, they got caught–they were passed out in the car when the cops arrived. We don’t live in a dangerous neighborhood–really–but I’m sorry to say the house was hit again (!) five years later! This time, simple drunkeness was the cause!
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I agree with the Webmaster about MACS. We are a PC family kind of by default, because the first school computer we got for free was an IBM PC 15-20 years ago. Was it the P/S-1 or 2 or something? I think that junky old boat anchor is still up in the attic! As we bought our own machines, the older PC’s were "hand me downs" to the kids. Believe it or not, I’ve got a little detachable "A" drive sitting right next to me because every now and then I have an old file on a floppy disk, LOL!
Laurie’s sister is a professional graphic artist and photographer who makes catalogs for a major manufacturer of farm products. She also creates animations of fans, grain elevators, and tractor engines. All of this powerful artistic and design work is better acomplished with the MAC. Her only concession to PC is accounting and payroll, just because so many of the IT financial products are PC based…
Thanks for posting the name of this video device. Eventually, I’ll get one–old wedding and toddler videos are not holding up well and I’d like to convert them to DVD’s one day!
Joel
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Happy Birthday, Velocity!
Joel
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Age has taken its toll and I am desperately trying to remember the name of this device. But go to Office Max or whatever is the office store in your neighborhood. For about forty bucks–a one time expense–you can buy this wedge shaped device (Grrrrr…what is the NAME of this thingy…..????) Veena, ask your husband because he will know what this thing is called. Argghh! It’s got a funny brand name…
It has standard video input jack for standard RCA and/or S video and/or standard RF outputs at one end of the device. The other end is a USB cable output. The device may or may not also be available with Fire-Wire if you are an APPLE person.
You plug your video camera–even an old fashioned black and white VHS camera as big as a boot shoebox–into this device. It acts as a compiler and creates a digital video file in your computer. You can use this to convert old wedding videos and 1980’s era VHS tapes to video. Once you have a digital video clip on your computer, you can edit it with Windows Movie Maker. The camera store charging you 25 bucks a pop is probably using a similar device.
One caution about Windows Movie Maker is that is doesn’t support every type of video type file. If you buy a new camera, try to look on the box and and see what type file it saves as and if this file is supported by whatever movie editor you have. I have a FLIP. it comes with it’s own junky editor–but saves as DOT WMV files, which work OK inWindows Movie Maker.
ROXIO CREATOR is the software that supports virtually every video file type known to man (and woman)! It will cost you 79.95–but I’ve seen it on sale at Target for 49.95. It has many bells and whistles and allows you to do crazy stuff with music and sound to your pole dancing.
You said something interesting in your post–that your cam uses mini-tapes. Are they Digital? Examine the camera closely. If they are digital, and not analog, you might not need to do a conversion. Look for a USB output port underneath or on the side of the cam. It might be covered with a tiny black rubber flap to keep water/moisture out. If it is a digital cam, you might be able to plug it in to your USB port. If so, a flash driven computer program will auto-start in your Run menu and might pull the videos into your computer on its own.
I’m out in the field tomorrow–I’ll get the name of this converter thing and PM you!
Joel
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All I can say Veena is that you guys escaped to California not a moment too soon–because the upper and central Midwest has been Blizzard Country since mid-December. I’m sure you know what happens in Minnesota as the Winter grinds on–you’ve got that little "tunnel" or corridor right down the driveway because you’ve piled up the snow in little hills on either side. With each successive snow storm, that tiny little pathway to the garage gets more and more narrow…and you have to sort of ZOOM the car up and around the little snow mound, jam the steering wheel just right and get over to your side of the garage without taking out the wall, LOL! It’s 5 degrees now, 12 inches on the ground and 3-5 more expected tomorrow night. The pole room is frigid and the pole is slippery… Fortunately, shovelling is a great way to work the trapezius muscle group when the pole is off-line…
Joel
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Veena, you’re right about some of the expert village stuff. One of the strangest aspects of their tutes is that they ALWAYS seem to be wearing long, loose fitting pants! I really like the one lady, Nikki, but her muscular strength is so way out of the normal range that I wonder if normal people understand that you need more SKIN to avoid falling down on your butt!
I think they are really freaked out about perception on their channel, so they put the instructors in what looks like formal dinner attire to ward off criticism that it’s not wholesome.
As far as the danger part–yes, the tutorial on what they call FALLS ( fast slides) is insane. In this vid, they demo the inverted crucifix drop, braking with a thigh squeeze. It’s a different instructor, she does use a mat–but she flies up into the move and just does it in one motion. She should have suggested doing it in increments, with a supporting hand first to gauge the move first! THey don’t even say–"Hey this is an advanced move, don’t try this until you are really experienced, with a good pole and body sense…"
Joel
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Welcome, Voelle!
My name is Joel, just one syllable. But when I was little, my grandmother would call me Jo-el when I was bad and I knew I was in trouble. My name comes from my parents JOhn and ELise. Voelle is a great name, Is there a story behind the name?
Joel
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Flosquito
Rotate your workouts and don’t do the pole every single day. That will allow different parts of the body to rest while you work on another kind of exercise. I practice the pole every third day. I do treadmill one day, weight machines the next day, pole the third day. You could try changing emphasis WITHIN the pole workout. Spins one practice, aerial work the next, inverts the one after that.
If you are pole dancing for 20 minutes, then that is a good twenty minutes of pole. Are you documenting your practices with a video camera?–because maybe if you had old videos of yourself in earlier practices and your improvement would be more obvious to you. I look at some of my old videos and they are hilariously bad. I look at my videos from last week and they are just…well, bad!
Keep a sense of humour about it. Enjoy the process and go as slow as you need to. You will pick up the moves and you will get better. If you are feeling discouraged, go watch some of my awful videos and have a good laugh because I bet you have passed me up already. You are going to be an absolutely fabulous pole dancer one day–I am absolutely confident of that!
Joel
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I just ordered Jamilla’ s box set yesterday. I ‘m pretty excited about it!
I’ll second the comment about it being difficult to get a hold of Leigh Ann. She is an awesome dancer and I am a regular subscriber to her vids. I know she is a stunt trainer for movie stars or something, so maybe she is just super busy all the time… A few years ago she was in the running for on-line Playmate of the Year and did a video asking for votes for her submission. I couldn’t get the link to work and PM’ed her for the right http link and she didn’t answer–so I couldn’t cast the vote! Follow up is important–especially in a people profession like fitness and training…
I do know that Jamilla, Alena (and of course, our very own Veena!) do cultivate and build relationships carefully and that would be an important factor in deciding which instructional videos to purchase.
And of course, when little Henry is walking and Veena and the webmaster have enough time to burn those lessons onto DVD, Leigh Ann and Jamilla will have a little competition, LOL!
When can I place my order??!!
Joel
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Yes, I know Alena has expressed mixed feelings about the possibility of pole as an Olympic sport. That may have something to do with the standardization of governance, judging, and moves.
There are a number of competing organizations and I wonder if they could all get together and form a single approach to the sport…or if that is even a good thing.
I did sign the petition–partly as a matter of respect. I just think pole deserves more exposure–even if the Olympics is not the final destination. I have to admit there is something a little fun about the anarchy in pole dancing. All of the styles and individualism makes it the Golden Age of the dance/sport/hobby!
And I am not the least bit uncomfortable with the exotic/erotic aspect of pole dance. Many of the You-Tube polers are shamelesly erotic, sensual, and sexual in their style of dance and I think that is just fine. I would hate to see that aspect of pole dancing go away (and it probably wouldn’t!) But it would also be nice to have a venue for a straightforwardly athletic exhibition of gymnastic ability.
I spend a lot of time galumpfing around the pole and falling on my butt–nothing erotic about that and I think there should be a place for that, too!
And Olympic or some other quote/ unquote "legitimate" sport broadcasting would make many people who feel insecure about taking up pole feel more comfortable about it.
Joel
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I think ambivalence about pole is an equal opportunity thing–for Boys as well as Girls. My daughter Johannah is obsessed that her best friend never see the pole room in the basement and always closes the door when she comes over. But before I bought her her own FLIP camera, I discovered a few video clips on mine with her doing spins! (Ahem! she’s also not supposed to pole alone–for safety.) Laurie’s pretty adamant about not letting her post any of those kinds of vids, so I’ve tried to get Johannah involved in some of my videos as a spotter–and let her sneak in a spin or two.
It’s too bad that the "sleazy" label gets attached to pole dancing, but frankly, I think that sexism has a lot to do with it. The parking lot is always full at the strip club a few suburbs over–I bet none of the guys there think of themselves as sleazy–only the dancers get labelled that way.
So yeah, I pretty much agree with all the ladies in this post. Kids will pick up on however you present the activity. And if they get ashamed of it later, it’s probably no big deal. When he was a teenager, Jake always made me drop him off at school a block away because I drove a Honda Civic and that wasn’t a cool car. Now he lectures me about how I should take public transportation because cars use too much gas…
Joel