[SandyBrown]

I’ve updated mine! And I’ve included the times for the rest of the listed workshops. (I also put the workshops in order. I think I’m a little OCD https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_redface.gif )

Thurs
5pm – 6:30pm: Alethea USPDF- TrophyWife, PhillyPoleJess, PoledanceVienna
6:30 – 8pm: Jenyne USPDF- amyxshi, ottersocks, Phillypolejess, PoledanceVienna

Sat
9:30 – 11am: Estee B&P–ottersocks, bauderlady
10am – 11:30am: Spinning pole with Allegra (MPD Australia) USPDF – Fleur
1pm – 2:30: Brooke USPDF–ottersocks
2pm – 3:30: Contortion B&P– PoledanceVienna
2:30 – 4pm: Alethea USPDF- amyxshi, tracee
4pm – 5:30: Miss USPDF winner–ottersocks
4pm – 5:30: Jenyne B&P- sandybrown
5:30 – 7 pm: Karol USPDF- TrophyWife
6:30 – 8pm: Alethea B&P- sandybrown, PoledanceVienna
7pm – 8:30pm: Amber USPDF- amyxshi, tracee, Foxy_Rei
8:15 – 9:30: Karol B&P–PoledanceVienna

Sun
10am – 11:30: Amber B&P–PoledanceVienna
12:30 – 2pm: Leigh Ann B&P- sandybrown, PoledanceVienna, LuvlyJ
2:15 – 3:45: Alethea B&P- PoledanceVienna
7:15 – 8:45: Karol B&P- amyxshi, sandybrown

[SandyBrown]

ATTENTION: The room numbers for the USPDF workshops have now been listed on the USPDF site. Go here to the Mind Body Client to see which room your workshop is in: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/asp/home.asp?studioid=8706" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false

Room 806 is the smallest of the rooms, and currently where NYPD teaches all of its classes. Room 802 is going to be much bigger. Both rooms are on the same floor of the same building, so no worries about back-to-back workshops, if that’s your case. NYPD will be occupying both rooms beginning in March.

[SandyBrown]

I was deathly afraid of this move for a while. It wasn’t until one of my instructors told me to squeeze my glutes and to roll my knees in (or make like that’s happening) that I was able to stop being afraid of letting go of the pole with my hand. I felt so accomplished! I don’t just shoot straight for it though. I slowly lower myself down. I think the key really is trying to roll your knees inward.

[SandyBrown]

My experience was similar to Amy’s at Crunch. It was like a free-for-all in a sense. Close to 20-something girls in the class and only two instructors. There were two students in the class who mentioned that this was their first time taking pole, and one of them ended up doing a CAR (maybe I was jealous because I was too afraid to try it at my own studio, lol.)

I wonder which class the woman was in when she was injured. At the NYC Crunch locations, there’s Pole Dancing and then there’s Turning Tricks. Not that it makes much of a difference, but I wonder if there was pressure/eagerness to try in invert if she was in the advanced class.

I also would like to know if the Crunch instructors are certified. I know that some of them teach at Body & Pole.

hmmm…i had received a link to this story from a student….

i have to say this is why i am glad we teach our pole dancing in levels. we have been pressured to just to do mixed levels classes but we stuck with what we believed in. i know people dont always like it but IMO it is just safer. i compare it to something like gymnastics, karate, or cheerleading…you just cant walk off the street and go into an advanced class. pole dancing is really hard to monitor in that format when you are teaching aerial tricks. we do have mixed level classes like cardio pole, freestyle pole, but they have to have at least 3 months pole dance experience to participate. mixed level classes are better when its experienced pole students IMO.

we teach inverts in level 3…and i feel so much better as an instructor knowing that my students have been poling for 4 months continously before they attempt inverting.

i agree empyrean……i just hope the pole championships get this much press!!!!!!!!

Anngiern, are you at PoleLaTeaz? When I saw level 3 (because that’s when I learned my first invert) and cardio pole it reminded me of PoleLaTeaz. I left Atlanta after 5 months at PoleLaTeaz to move to NYC.

[SandyBrown]

You may be a pole dancer if you’re hoping that the pastor doesn’t run over in her/his sermon so that you can leave church early and make it to pole class on time.

[SandyBrown]

I think I’m at a point in my dancing where I’m trying to figure out my own style. A pole classmate and I were leaving class yesterday, and she commented that she feels weird doing floorwork (which was in the routine we learned yesterday). I’ve noticed that she’s really into landing the tricks. I love doing floorwork, and there’s one instructor in particular at our studio that has the most amazing floorwork. One of her jobs besides being an instructor is dancing at one of the local strip clubs, and it shows in her dancing, yet she is just as flawless and athletic as some of the other instructors that have a gymnastics background (she herself has a ballet background).

I am most interested in watching performers who are successful in combining the floorwork with the spins and tricks seamlessly fluid, and look like they’re having fun while doing it. So, someone who can combine the "pole fitness" with the "pole erotic". It’s funny because I was just thinking about the two studios I’ve been a student at since I began poling, and they are polar opposites: one was focused more on floorwork, sensuality, etc., and the other is more into the spins and tricks and the overall fitness aspects. I remember myself and my classmates being a little bored with learning so much floorwork, but looking back on it, it has helped me to think more about being a well-rounded poler.

And in regards to the discussion on pole dance becoming a Olympic sport, I have mixed feeling. On one hand, it would be nice for pole dance to be recognized as not only erotic but athletic. On the other hand, I feel that it will turn into something in the likes of Oona and competitors will have to become more structured in what they do in order to get the highest score possible, and I think these performers will focus more on the tricks than anything else. Executing the tricks is always cool to see, but after a while it becomes boring to me.

I wonder if people associate floorwork with erotic pole dance and more tricks with fitness pole dance. Could that be a reason why some may not like floorwork as much?

[SandyBrown]

yeah foxy i was wondering the same thing! I actually wrote wendy and asked and she said show up at least an hour before with your ID and get your tickets…she also said that if you bought through USPDF and not the theatre (which i did) that USPDF bought some of the best seats in the house…and then resold the tickets to us adn therefore we dont have assigned seats. She told me it was roped off and first come first serve type deal for tickets purchased through the them…I didnt get a place for the workshops either yet…and they seem to be pretty late on everything so Im not too surprised. Lots of bugs to work out…but as soon as someone finds out I hope they post it just so we kno!

I think Foxy was referring to if you needed tickets for the actual workshops, and you won’t for that. Since you bought you comp tickets through USPDF, I would bring the ID just in case something weird goes down while trying to get to your seats. That sort of happened last year, where people who did not pay for the VIP tickets started to sit in the VIP section at the Bleecker Street Theater.

[SandyBrown]

thurs
jenyne USPDF- amyxshi, tracee
alethea USPDF- TrophyWife

sat
amber USPDF- amyxshi, tracee, Foxy_Rei
alethea USPDF- amyxshi, tracee
karol USPDF- TrophyWife
Jenyne B&P- sandybrown
Alethea B&P- sandybrown

sun
karol B&P- amyxshi
Leigh Ann B&P- sandybrown

[SandyBrown]

I just signed up!

I look forward to meeting you all!

[SandyBrown]

Hey y’all,

I’m a student at NYPD, and Wendy (the owner) is currently in the process of finalizing the location of NYPD’s new Manhattan studio space (Us NYPD students are psyched about it. It’s a much bigger space, conveniently in the same building as the current space. NYPD will occupy both spaces). I spoke with her about it today, and most likely the new space won’t be ready until the week before the competition (they have to set it up, design, etc.). I would say that’s why you haven’t received an email about the location. Also, since you signed up on the Mind Body scheduler website, Wendy will have a list of who’s supposed to be in which workshop, and when you signed up you were supposed to have gotten an email from the website confirming that you paid and for what class.

[SandyBrown]

I think S Factor, NYPD, and Shockra all have an intro class and your friends can take before committing to a level/package. I would suggest your friends check out each studio a few times to see which one vibes with them the most. I’ve never been to S Factor, but I think they have levels (similar to the studio I was at prior to moving to NYC) and you may have to hurry and sign up when the levels are open again (someone please confirm this). I know nothing about Shockra except that you may be able to do inversions at an earlier stage of your poling.

I go to NYPD, and there are two main pole classes: Climb & Spin and Climb & Invert. You’re recommended to tale Intro to Pole prior to Climb & Spin, but you don’t have to. Unlike S Factor and (I think) Shockra, you have to test into Climb & Invert in order to start the more intermediate/advanced tricks and spins that are not taught in Climb & Spin. Also, spins, transtions, and the like won’t be taught in Climb & Invert because the instructors know that if you passed the test, you were able to do majority of the testing items to pass. Also at NYPD, there’s no pressure for people to quickly sign up for additional classes after Intro to Pole. You’re even given a discount card to be used when you decide to buy classes.

[SandyBrown]

Jeremee!

I just sent you a message! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif

[SandyBrown]

OMG! Veena just welcomed me! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif

Thanks everyone!

[SandyBrown]

I agree that sexiness is a matter of personal interpretation. I love watching dancers who can combine the sexy move/transitions/poses/eye contact in the midst of their spins and tricks. To me, they are more entertaining to watch, and I’m sure that many of them (regardless of their background in dance, or lack thereof) had to really practice it in order to be good at it.

One way to try this is to freestyle to a song by only doing transitions/walking/poses/eye contact, and leave the spins and inversions out of it. I’m going to do this the next time I go to open pole at my studio.

[SandyBrown]

I realize that this topic is old as dirt, but I wanted to give my take on it.

I actually agree to a certain extent with the comment that was made, even though the execution of the comment was really wack. While I can’t really form an opinion on if spinning is harder than static (I was only on a spinning pole briefly), I sometimes pay attention to the women who come to the studio that I go to, and I notice that a lot them have not built up the coordination to use a static pole. So I can’t imagine having to learn on a spinning pole when the coordination isn’t there yet. In that sense, I would say that spinning would be harder.