RoseMay
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I've had several knee surgeries and can easily anger them. I have to say Veenas middle splits stretches and routine are by far the knee-friendliest ones I know of. (Thanks Veena! :-))
In the straddle stretch I don't feel pain in the knees when I flex my feet. When I point them it does feel weird at a certain degree of the stretch.
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Of course you can use the same progression for pull ups on the pole 🙂 This makes them more sports specific than doing them on a bar. Because of the different grips the muscles used are slightly different. But if you want to gain strength for pole – well why don't train the muscles you use on a pole. If you want to build general upper back strength for health reasons it would be best to train ALL variations (on a bar with supinated and pronated grip and different grip widths) though. Not all at once, just in the long run.
To build strength I personally would change the program in the link a bit to make it more efficient – but there's nothing wrong with it.
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Awesome, I love it! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_heart1.gif And I finally know the name of the move in my profile pic https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
Will there be lessons for the moves on the pics that you currently don't have lessons for? *curious*
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On the floor you "just" need to do a front split and then lean back and grab your straight back leg over your head. So you need (squared?) splits and be able to reach your foot when bending backwards (back and hip flexor flexibility). Not sure if you can bend back that far without the hips being squared in the split.
Good luck! 🙂
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…. when you walk through a shopping mall and in the window of a clothing shop you see a sign: "Flexible help wanted!" and start to wonder whether they would be impressed by your splits https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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I ordered both of my poles from here: http://www.x-pole.co.uk/
No problem shipping them to a normal german address, they arrived within a few days after ordering. The support there was also quick to reply to my mails, so maybe you could ask them directly about shipping to an APO address?
If you pick the static version you should stay under $300.
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Yay good for you! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
Since we have so many tips on the superman in this thread I'm gonna share what helped me get mine. I go into it from a side V. The key for me was to turn the bottom leg towards the floor in the side V, so that the pole already rests on the inside of that thigh. So when I turn my hips around it doesn't hurt the skin of that leg that much because it doesn't need to turn around. In all those months of trying before I got the superman I always tried it with the lower leg turned forward and it hurt soooo much to try to twist the hips around https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif
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Why do you need the vitamins injected? I take several kinds of vitamins B as a normal powder supplement. Are you that deficient that you need injections of it to work?
And why shouldn't you get bruises after 9 months? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif I've been poling for over a year now and I'm constantly covered with bruises, despite applying Traumeel on a regular basis ..
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When you invert from a teddy do you grip the pole and get into a normal straddle? Or is there another way?
And how would you go into a superman from a teddy?? And jamilla lift? Any videos? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
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maurer rose, if people that I don't know very well ask what sport I do I usually call it either gymnastics or acrobatics https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif I don't want to have to explain over and over again how pole dancing is not the same as stripping …
(and my secret place for a stretch break is – the lady's room at work or university https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif I use the closed toilet for supporting my foot in hamstring stretches and the wall for quad stretches …. )
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I know this is old, but I got a few new ones:
You know you're a pole dancer if you try to do the splits in the changing room when trying on shorts to test whether they are pole safe… and hope that no one accidentally walks into the room.
You know you're a pole dancer when you try to climb the heating tube in the lady's room at work … just to try out how the diameter feels.
You know you're a pole dancer with some strength if you actually manage to climb that tube!
You know you're a pole dancer with a small ceiling at home if after one climb you get scared of the height and jump down.
You know you're a pole dancer if every time you meet the heating tube in the lady's room at work you silently greet it like an old friend.
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I totally understand your frustration, it must suck to lose tricks you worked so hard for …
A few things that came to my mind while reading:
What about your nutrition? Did it change lately?
And how often do you practice those moves that are more difficult now? Did you try to watch lessons, DVDs, whatever, on them to remember the important points that help you get the trick? It happened to me several times that I seemed to have "unlearned" something, but really I just got sloppy with the technique and (re)watching tutorials or dvds helped me to clean them up again ..
And to get back into the happy groove you could just concentrate on dancing for a while doing the tricks that you're still comfortable with https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif
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I wish I would have listened when I read how important Veenas shoulder, forearm and wrist conditioning lessons really are and how much stretching the forearms after poling helps.
Oh, and I second the 45 mm thing. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_heart1.gif my 45mm TG
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Did you engage your arm while holding the teddy? I find that the more I engage the muscles of the arm the less it hurts. And the pole should be more on the upper arm than the armpit.
If you're doing the classic teddy leg position try to really pull the leg that youre holding on up and to the side.
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Thanks for posting this luvlee! Ever since I read it in this thread I've been wondering …
