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THANKS! What a lovely thing to say.  I feel I'll never get them, I've been same distance from the floor for months!!! My hip flexor just won't let me go lower 🙁 I'd give anything for full splits!! hehe

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thanks for the advice! Still too scared to use brasso will stick with glass cleaner, seems to clean well without effecting the finish

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Thankyou lizzy!! Great video!! I've been too scared to use Brasso on my xpole cos I used it on the top once, near the dome, and it made it go a really lighty gold/silvery color, but thats gone back to normal color now, I also don't want to risk making it slippery.  It also doesn't tarnish up like yours cos its only a 'brass finish'

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Thanks jade!! I seem to have trouble with the whole exhale thing, I don’t seem to find it much helpful so I must be breathing wrong! I’ll keep concentrating on my exhales 🙂

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Thanks glitter I'll try that! So when I'm lying on my back, is the roller above or below the tailbone??

 

paulette its a machine and you sit on a seat with legs out on either side on two 'ledge' type things and you wind a wheel and the ledges seperate with your legs and you go as wide as ou can and sit like that for a while, i have a pic in my stretching album 🙂

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I finally had Jade success! I went from totally falling straight down as soon as the back leg unhooked from gemini to getting it off but as soon as it extended I'd fall straight down, to suddenly tonight I realized that if you push with that hand on the butt the body naturally turns into face the pole and you can "lock" on!!! It felt so good to lock on! I have a video up of my first successful jade 🙂 I know the split is HORRIBLY terrible but I'll try to flatten it in time 🙂

So my tip is push up with that butt hand and turn your body in really focus on that grip and it seemed to stop my slow slip and I stayed in place a while! 

Also I don't seem to suffer from any rib crush surprisingly, thats left for my allegra attempts, so painful..

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Thanks!! It takes me about an hour all up… here goes..

I warm up and then I use my foam roller on calves, quads, back of quads, and glutes. Usually 8 rolls each. Then I start with straddle type stretches, one leg out and one bent in, then straddle stretches each side, then straddle stretches forwards (I pull on pole to pull me down), then pike stretch, lying leg grab, lunge stretch, the opposite one to lunge stretch, then on knees I have glutes near pole and slide one foot up pole to stretch back and quads, then I sit on my leg stretcher machine for ten minutes, then I try for front and middle split, then I do some pigeon poses.  I only recently started the pigeon pose, it seems to stretch those little flexors, maybe I'll just do more pigeoning? lol

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Oh WOW RG to shoulder mount, I want this one day!!!

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Hi Hannah! I didn't hurt my wrist but hurt my elbow about a month ago.  It's the same, hurts when I flex it or straighten it but very minor pain and I don't notice it during the day when at work etc.  I was in an elbow grip straight edge and my body was sorta floating around the pole a bit and my balance point went overhead in a different way and I heard my lower supporting arm elbow crack/pop. Came back down expecting a terrible injury but had no pain.   Now I just have that very very minor hurty feeling sometimes.  I got a elbow brace off ebay for it and put it on tight when I pole, that helps HEAPS!!! and at night I sleep with the brace on with magnets in it I swear they have helped a bit too.  Maybe try a wrist brace to support it while it heals?

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No advice but just wanted to say that must really suck and I feel for you 🙁 🙁 I hurt a shoulder muscle a few months ago and couldn't pole for over a month cos I had nerve damage and it sucked! But I healed.  Can a SLAP injury heal with non surgery? If so you would have to rest it and not be tempted to pole as hard as it is 🙁 I moved onto pilates when I couldn't pole and I loooove it so you can find other ways to still feel a bit fit 

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Thanks Amy! I was getting into it from a Scorpio,  I think I might try it from a half hip hold maybe I'll get more snug that way 

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My best attempt at an Allegra out of my 8 attempts last night, I fell straight after this video still though LOL.  I just can't stay up if I take that darn top leg off!! Oh well won't be trying again for several days, my inner thigh and contact point on my back are so sore if I touch them

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Thanks girls! I’ll definitely try a overgrip next time and grip higher. I have a video of me falling out of one near the ground lol

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I tried the Allegra about 10 times tonight and my upper thigh and my back are in agony!! I just can't release the top leg without falling right down 🙁 I feel like all the weight is on my upper hand and it cant hold me when I roll my body down and arch 🙁

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Thanks guys!! Now I just need someone with a 38mm in melbourne so I can try it lol