Poledancefan
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I just signed up for Karol Helms’ 8PM workshop at Body and Pole on Saturday. LOL, I am SO NERVOUS–I’ve never had a lesson of any kind before. I was so hyper about the whole thing I couldn’t even go to sleep last night. Oh boy, what a weekend that’s going to be. I’m terrified of flying, too! Look at it this way, if I make it on the plane, a lesson with Karol won’t seem all that scary.
Can’t wait to see all of you there!
Joel Lessing ( "Poledancefan")
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I’m definitely coming to the jam! I’ll leave some time Friday Afternoon, stay overnight…and drive back to Chicago right after the jam. I’m pretty excited about it–it will be my first official pole jam at a pole studio. I can’t wait to meet all of you–and see friends from the Chicago SV pole meet-up last year.
Joel
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Ha Ha…took me a while to find that (Eagan) in the Road Atlas…guess I should get with the modern age and use map quest. I will ask for the Friday off tomorrow. I’m planning to come. I’ll drive to Minneapolis on Friday, stay overnight…and come home right afterwards on Saturday. I’l try to get a final answer for you by Friday the 5th.
Joel Lessing
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Wow–this looks like great fun. I was aware something was in the works–and my sister lives in DC, so I would’ve had a free place to stay. But My mom’s Birthday is Christmas Day…and everybody comes HERE, lol–to Chicago. So it’s a crazy week and it all falls on Laurie to do all the cooking and I help do all the other stuff. So, no travelling for me that week!
I have to tell you…if it were 500 miles or less, I would just hop in my car and drive!! –Just to meet Azriel all the way from Greece. I know for sure I will meet the rest of you here in the US one day. I am trying to see if I can go to USPDF in March of 2010…
So, somebody could bring a lap-top with a web-cam, right? And webmaster could open the chat video window from California, right? Live pole jam on SV???
Have fun, everybody…and Fleur…hope all your workshops are filled to the capacity!
Joel
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Don’t get upset! Everybody probably has that one or two moves they can do on the pole without ever seeing one before–either because they were a gymnast before…or learned a few moves watching someone else pole. It’s the ability to put the moves together in a flowing sequence of combos and with good technique that distinguishes a real pole dancer or pole athlete.
One of the best things pole has taught me is how to be patient in setting my own goals relative to my own age, athletic ability, and aptitude. I don’t ask myself when am I ever going to be "good" at this anymore (Never, lol!)–I just watch videos and look for interesting and attractive moves that look like they are within my range of ability. Then I work on them until I succeed or fail. Because of the circumstances of my set-up–short pole in a basement–it is hard to follow a sequence of lessons. I don’t have enough room for many of them–so I skip around. That can be a bad thing, because I don’t build fundamentals in an orderly fashion.
As for men and the shoulder mount–except for that one accidental success..I still really can’t do that move. A boyfriend or spouse that spontaneously can do a S/M must have had some athletic background before coming to the pole! Either that or he is a natural born poler!
Joel
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Wow…just watched the link to Pole Kat (NashvillePoleQueen). She is going around unbelievably fast! I saw Ottersock’s explanation of Fleur’s use of the Allegra move in her comp performance. I was wondering if her expressive dance routine was ever posted anywhere…I know the mandatories were up on a YT video for a while…but I never saw a vid of the longer, individual dance done at the competition. Is USPDF planning to release an "official DVD?"
Joel
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I love your home built spinny pole. I had no idea you could buy a spinning flange for conduit or pipe. My homemade pole is built pretty much the same way–except that I have a wooden base on the basement floor so I would not have to mount the flange by drilling into the concrete floor.
I once saw a spinny pole on You-Tube that used a bearing set cannibalized from a lazy boy type recliner chair on the bottom. The top of the pole simply slipped inside a greased cylinder of pipe slightly larger than the bore of the dance pipe itself. The woman who built it did a few moves in the video–it seemed to work remarkably well.
If I had more room in the basement, I would try this–but our house has already reached maximum pole capacity according to my wife, lol!
Joel
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And speaking of cats and poles…I think Tigiee (Azriel)–just put up a video with her cats playing around the pole just a few hours ago! It’s an adorable video…her cats have really unusual coloration and get along really well.
I noticed the cat-pole thing very early on when I started watching pole videos. Symone Corby’s* cats were real glory hounds in her videos from Hong Kong (SYMONESAL). I remember she did an old timey burlesque number with a chair dance and a purple wig and the cats kept jumping up in her lap while she was recording the video. She ended up just making the cats part of the performance.
I think that Tiff is the only poler I can think of whose dogs regularly showed up in vids–but we don’t see them as often in her new studio room. I can remember that one of them used to sit on the bed throughout the entire video..sometimes watching…other times fast asleep.
Karol had a great dog video up a while back in her old place. Her husband’s dog PeeDee was freaked out by the X-stage on spinny in the kitchen. It was a hilarious video. And Karol is briefly seen rescuing PeeDee in the North Carolina flood footage on the 10 O’clock news that was broadcast last spring.
Joel Lessing
*(Symone uses her name publicly)
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Oh…Good Heavens, LOL!
How did I miss this one? I’ve got to check those little schedule icon things at the bottom of the screen more carefully.
Happy Birthday, Webmaster!
Let me express my appreciation for the "invisible" hand that guides the technical wizardry behind all of the many bells and whistles on SV. The two of you have created a brilliant partnership that has enhanced and complemented the "pole scene" here in North America….especially with the video hosting, pole blogging, and chat features unique to SV. All this…and a family man who takes the kids hiking, whips up IT solutions for businesses, and is a wonderful husband to the lovely Miss Veena!
Thanks to You for all of your hard work….and I hope you got a good present!
Joel Lessing
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Everyone….
This news came to me very late…from Glitter, who told me about it in chat just a few hours ago…Saturday night my time. I was familiar with CaramelDlite from her posts…but had only recently met her in chat when JC was demonstrating some of his latest moves and Veena and Caramel were all on the videophone exchanging funny remarks on chat. Caramel had a great sense of humor!
….. I am never good at moments like this…at wakes and stuff I am always the one hiding in the kitchen setting up the coffeemaker or something because there never seems to be anything you can say that can possibly compensate for the death of a very young person before their life has really even begun. I hope I can take a lesson from her life and situation because right now I am struggling with a conflict in my extended family and I have not spoken to someone (out of anger) for a few weeks…so I’ll pick up the phone and call them…for Gina’s sake…
Joel Lessing
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Welcome to Studio Veena…I live in Forest Park…an Illinois suburb jsut west of Chicago!
Joel
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Congratulations, JC! Finding a place to take lessons has been a real problem for me…there just isn’t that much pole to begin with here in Chicago…even harder to find if you are male. I more or less gave up trying to find a class. TO some extent Iam bothered more by the lack of a suitably tall enough pole to work with than I am by the lack of formal instruction. Right now, I’d settle for an extra room in the house with a 10 foot ceiling!
But, hey…your news sounds GREAT…Keep us all up to date!
Joel
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I don’t like to pole ALONE in the house–just for safety reasons
But I can’t stand it when anybody is right nearby. I feel very self conscious. It was a problem all summer, since my son was home from college and his room is next door to the pole room.
I think it’s pretty natural to be a little self conscious–no matter how positively we all regard the pole sport, I guess some of the negative stereotypes have rubbed off a little bit on all of us and we have to overcome them in our own minds, too…
Joel
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Oh…one other thing…I could NEVER see page one all the way to the bottom on the NEW POST page.
I would have to RECYCLE the page to page 2….then re-set to page 1 to see all the way to the bottom.
That has been fixed, too. Now I can see the entire length of page one…all the way to the bottom post.
Great job!
Joel
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Webmaster..
just wanted to let you know that the reply box text has stabilized quite a bit. I don’t know what you did…but the annoying fluttering and instability in the page as you write a submittal has gone away. Recently, it wasn’t even letting me type in more than 5-6 lines of text before the text would disappear to the "bottom" or underneath the screen!
Don’t know what you did…but it’s all better now!
Joel