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chumpchkin, I just watched your vid of the rocketman – you make it look so easy!! How exactly do you brace the arm – is it pulling backwards and in or just one or the other??

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For some reason I find the yogini pretty easy but am too chicken to try the rocketwo/man 'cos I have a lot of moveable flesh on my upper arms (I keep telling myself it's muscles;p) so I worry about the grip when I'm not bracing like in the yogini! For the yogini though, I think I found it easier because I have done a lot of the yoga Bow Pose (here is one I prepared earlier;p http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/875) so part of the grip actually comes from the bracing of the ankles against your hands and tautening your body rather than just hoping the old arm skin will hold you up.

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I can never get past the fact that in these debates that the people who express the negative opinions don't seem to realise that if they didn't have this negative opinion that they express so close-mindedly, that there wouldn't be this stigma attached to the pole, if that makes sense! And that it is only prejudiced adults who make it seem like something bad to do and that kids approach the pole with complete innocence. There is SO much exposure of children to sexualised content through music videos and clothing and tv etc that just never seems to enter into the discussion as much more dangerous than kids having fun and doing exercise on a vertical bar!! Especially as pole classes are a closely monitored situation where trained adults are keeping an eye on the kids, rather than a kid being by themselves in their rooms, watching tv or the internet and not necessarily having that.

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Nothing in their profile + mean comments screams internet troll to me! Don't let a  troll take away from all the great comments you got because that's how they get their jollies! And noone wants to give a troll jollies…Cheer up and rejoice in your awesomeness;)

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Have you tried doing it from a pike? There's no twisting that way, just pushing. I find my hand holding on is much lower though so it's harder to manoeuvre to do anything other than jumping down out of it or doing a superman drop.

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Oops sorry for the double post!

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I know that two of the poling boys I know (including my bf) struggle with pole sits but I think that's more because they have problems with any of the skin sticking things (but flipping upsidedown and doing the crazy aerial stuff is much less of a problem – sometimes life is unfair!) rather than worry about 'package' damage. 

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I know that two of the poling boys I know (including my bf) struggle with pole sits but I think that's more because they have problems with any of the skin sticking things (but flipping upsidedown and doing the crazy aerial stuff is much less of a problem – sometimes life is unfair!) rather than worry about 'package' damage. 

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The requester actually appears to be female – at least they say they are! Not that that really changes anything…I guess I don't really have a problem with what people do with vids – I wouldn't put things up publically on the internet otherwise! I just find it odd because a)they asked for a specific vid rather than just working off what obviously interested them in the first place b)I've not had any sort of comments from anyone I don't already know or know of in any of the performance vids I have up on youtube and c)my feet are kind of flat and "lived in" for want of a better term so it surprises me that anyone's really interested! I might ask them for a few more details before I decide but thanks for all of your input 🙂

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Sorry, should have made it clearer – the person sent the message through yt not through SV – SV folks have been perfectly normal and congratulatory!:)

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I just watched that on fb and thought he was right on the money with his arguments – it was sad his colleagues wouldn't listen to such reasoned arguments!!

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Michelle is SO awesome and she's great to do workshops with too (yay for Aussies being close to NZ so we actually get them over here relatively often!) You can also find her in the Pure Pole Angels and Pure Pole Elements troupes – both well worth watching if you can find clips!

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I wish I'd read this before I went to class tonight! I've been struggling with this move for SO long!! Will have to try next time:)

 

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I wish I'd read this before I went to class tonight! I've been struggling with this move for SO long!! Will have to try next time:)

 

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My boyfriend uses my pole at home way more than I do!! I tend to only use it when I'm choreographing or I can't be bothered walking across town to the dance studio whereas he uses it as part of his several-times-a-week strength routine that he does at home, along with some free weights. He does pole classes too and will practice stuff sometimes on top of the strengthening:)