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In short – yes!

I was off training for a couple of months and got stuck into a depression rut. I started training again about 3 weeks ago and it’s been helping no end. (I’ve been dealing with depression on and off for about 5 years).

For me, dancing, moving and stretching help me feel ‘alive’ in my body. I need that to stave of the depression.

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Congratulations! That’s a great acheivement – sounds like you have some awesome practice techniques.

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Thanks everyone https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif

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Ah, the body is quite weird. I need to learn to be consistant on both sides.

There’s another thing I should have remembered as I we were only trying it a few weeks ago – brass monkey to scorpio – Sasha K does eros to scorpio at 2:03 in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aejSeV6xpsc

The trick I remember was twisting round and putting your armpit on the pole, holding on sneakily with your hand then doing the leg switch.

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Hi from Sheffield https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif

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Brass monkey is my nemisis move, but I’ve seen some great transitions out of it.

One is to put both hands behind and go into pencil/lunchbox. The other similar one is to go into marksman.

I’ve also seen people go back into forearm grip, or lower into flag.