RobynPoleDancer
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I just looked at the original ebay link too. The front picture is an old-style xpole, one of the later ones. Doesnt look fake to me. The instruction manual is right, the tools are right.
It's just confusing because they were just called "x-pole" and didn't have the qualifiers like the newer poles of x-sport or x-pert
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Wow LymeLyte I had no idea the fakes were shipping with bags now. they just get cheekier!
The tools are DEFINITELY a sign that it's a fake.
Also the cicular bag, the offical x-pole ones have a circular seam around the x-pole logo on the front. The seam is the same diameter as the OLD bases – they have not changed them even tho they changed the pole bases.Lindsgotts91. That is DEFINITELY a REAL X-Pole. 🙂
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Hit the allen key with the heel of your hand, it will CLICK really loudly. Happens all the time, sounds like you did it up just right. If it's really tight, hold the pole piece, and kick the allen key away from you. Honestly it won't damage it.
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X-Pole domes are METAL. There is no plastic in the X-Poles at all. (if you have a dome made of plastic it is a FAKE)
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Put it back up. You can get MUCH more purchase while it's not rolling on the floor. Short sharp shock to the chopstick with something like a rubber mallet or rubber-coated hand-weight or a book… (but if you can get the release tools it's MUCH easier than using the chopsticks)
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All the videos from the international championships are on their own website rather than Youtube
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I don't post here very much, but felt I needed to add my point of view.
I ran the UK's largest competition PoleDivas Championships for 2 full years (and was involved in the running of the final in the previous year)
Pole competitions are still relatively new. The original rule document for our competition in 2006 was 3 pages long including the entry form. In 2010, it was 7 pages of rules, 2 page entry form, and 3 additional pages of judging criteria. Every year we sat down for hours on end and revamped the rules depending on problems, questions, loopholes etc from previous years.
Even then we received little thanks for the hard work put in for so many months of the year leading up to the final. Instead we would get "why don't you have a spinning pole?" or "when are you going to have a doubles competition?" or "your advanced section is too hard for me, but your amateur section is too easy, make an intermediate section".As other people have said, pole is still a small industry. It's very hard to find judges who have not had interaction with competitors, yet are well-known and respected in the industry.
I can assure you we never had any agenda of who we wanted to win. We educated our judges on our scoring criteria, and let them judge. At the end we added up the scores. The person with the highest score won. TBH there were often surprising results, but CHANGING those results would be more unethical and unfair than any other route!
(as an additional point here, the judges spend their time concentrating on the performer on stage, writing their comments, and deciding personally what score to give that competitor. I know as a judge I am not aware of the audience reaction until the performer is leaving the stage, and by that time, I've probably already written a score)
The scoring system at the beginning was un-tested. How else do you test it other than using it AT the competition? And running just one competition a year does not give you many chances to change things around.USPDF seem to be a leader in US competitions. Trying out new concepts like the compulsory/optional rounds, how to select amateur/professional competitors. SOMEONE has to do these things first.
In the UK in 2007 PoleDivas were the first competition to introduce the rule "hips higher than head" for setting the upper limit in beginner moves. A lot of people complained "this means I can't do x-y-z move"… but look now, how many competitions have now adopted this rule as standard.PoleDivas was run by 2 normal pole instructors. Just like most of you. The initial stages of the competition are entirely funded from our own pockets. We rarely got sponsorship in the form of cash, as above, most sponsors send gifts and merchandise, we occasionally had sponsors buy specific items for us as funding (for example MightyGrip would pay for our trophies). I can tell you now, from 2006 – 2010, we only actually made money in 2010.
We aren't EXPERTS, we only do our best to offer a fair competition in the format that most people want to see.My final point is going to be. Why is so much anger being pointed towards the USPDF when they are at least trying to push pole forwards.
A recent competition run in the US by a UK company – who COPY & PASTED PoleDivas Rules when they ran their first competition in 2009, and have not changed them in any of the other 9 or 10 competitions they have run since. These people are NOT about pushing pole forwards, they blatantly break copyright rules, are vague about competition details, change details of competitions without informing all competitors… I could go on. Why are we letting these people carry on? -
I hear that you shouldn't use vinegar based cleaners (including window cleaner) on coated poles. (TG and Chrome)
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Just to remind you that there's a Venus Pole Dancing in Nottingham 😉
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It's definitely Dangerous Brian… named after the TV character. It was on Vertical Dance forum in abour 2006 that it was named.
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I’m not subscribed to the lessons so can’t watch the video attached to this
I’m misunderstanding which way I need to go… I SM on my right shoulder, so it’s my right hand in the twisted grip, left hand in cup grip, I flip to the right of the pole (same side as the shoulder on the pole). I can quite easily go over to sitting on the pole, I’m just misunderstanding which side is easier to complete this chopper. I usually invert with the pole to my left, with right hand on top. So at the moment I’m rolling to sit/upright crucifix before swapping my hand and inverting with the pole to my left. It just didn’t feel right to invert with the pole to my right, the flow wasn’t right in the direction of the flip.
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PoleDivas now has over 100 confirmed competitors in 2010. We have surpassed our numbers from 2009 already, and we are still taking entries!
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Great name!
Robyn x
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It’s when you go from brass monkey to eros and then swing your leg back while coming up to a pole sit in (as much as possible) one fluid movement.
And at 3:08 in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj9H4nga69Q
Ooh that’s me! Thanks!
You can see the hand switch quite well there.Although I had tidied it all up a bit by this performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51tri37ABXI
Combo starts at 2:25