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I really don't know much about electronic music, but I know that I always find it hard to remember what to do when in a choreography when there are no significant changes in the sound.

I', mot sure what you mean with "counting" spins or finding places for them. When I dance there always are spins in the routine … I love spins! I usually combine them with dancemoves, or use them for getting down to the floor (sometimes up again, hehe).

As for the clims to get into tricks from a higher position – you can do an extra slow climb, or a spinning climb (grab with your hands up and sideways on the pole so you twist around it while climbing), or climb with extra attention on the booty (stick it out more than usual). If you let it look like it's actually part of the choreography and not just getting from here to there, it'll be fine.

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most girls here in my town want to do ballet additionally to their pole training – it sure is good for the splits https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif – but somehow, i am not very much interested in it. i once did belly dancing, which i feel helps me a lot now. i learned much about smoothness and moving body parts seperately (upper and lower), and i learned to do the bodywaves then https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif

what i would chose from your list today, but that's for me only, of course, is modern dance. you'll do a lot of floorwork there, and getting up and down – which will probably be good for transitions. i tried it once and would have loved to continue, but the teacher was too confused for me, so i stopped going to the classes and haven't done anything like this since then (could start anew, hum …)

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wow, you definitely have to post a video here, too!

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one month will be more than enough, i'm sure. there is also a point where you cross the line between well-rehearsed and over-rehearsed – when you hate the song and want to start a whole new routine because you're so bored and everything about it gets on your nerves really bad. just leave the whole thing for a few days then! let it rest, and the joy about it will come back. but don't worry, everything will be fine!

a good idea would be to do it in front of an audience (friends, family, pole colleagues) before you go to the competition. this will reduce your nervousness at the competition most probably. also, you can work on another quite important thing, for which you need someone to spot you: stage presence. don't get lost in yourself, don't let them know you have the jitters. i wish you all the best, have fun, enjoy yourself and rock that pole!

please let me know if anything i told you worked, how you did and felt during the competition!

 

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p.s.: i think you should have completed the routine at least one week before the competition. you'll have plenty of time to rehearse the choreography on and off the pole (in your mind – in the car, on the bus, while cooking, or whatever – anywhere you can listen to the song would be good) then, and don't need to panic because you run out of time! hope this helps https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif

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for me, finding a song that actually makes me dance, and thus makes choreographing easy, is the biggest step. i usually skip through my playlist to find a song worth the effort, and when i have found it, i like to go to the pole and try things out while listening. i always write down what i have, with the lyrics on the left and the moves i want to do with them on the right. like this, i am able to repeat the choreography some months from now; it doesn't get 'lost'!

i also make a list of moves i really want to put into that choreography. sometimes there are parts of a song that really crave for a certain move! that's always great. then i only have to figure out, how to get into and out of that move https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

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hi veeners,

you could try this page http://www.paulsadowski.com/BirthData.asp

or this http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/

 

have fun finding "your" song! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cool.gif

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a song in a language you don't know (perhaps of a country you would like to travel to), trying to interprete the meaning – having absolutely no clue what it's about 😉

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haha, too bad, we could share a room https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

yeah, my common sense is quite distinct (hope I'm using the right word there ^^)

I've never travelled all alone before, mostly with my mum or a friend; Paris, London and Istanbul are the biggest cities I've been to so far.

But I'd SO kick myself if I went so far only to be kidnapped or something, because someone thought "ah, look at this nice little girl so far away from home" … aaah, I just don't know 🙂

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hi lucifairy, can you tell us a bit more precisely where the pain is? my forarms hurt sometimes, especially the right, on the outer side (along the line of the ulna). this may be an overstrain of the muscles on this side, caused by the split grip (carousel etc), as the right  arm is my lower arm in the split grip.

 

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@Runemist: Go on, kick them! Stupid chauvinists. I love women with short hair and men with long hair, or the other way round – I don't care, as long as it fits them! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif

I like what you said about watching amateur polers. I got a lot of good input from them, and I saw many things I wanted to try too – while when I watch professionals I usually can't concentrate on the transitions because everything's so amazing about them.

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@ hazeldej, nothing's easier than getting warmed up! try 5 minutes of rope skipping, and you'll know what I mean. you also move the wrists with skipping, so I like to do it before getting on the pole.

concerning stretching: there are a lot of good books on the market, why don't you go to the bookstore and take a look at some of them! there's a book many people like. I don't know its English title but translated it would be "the anatomy of stretching", by Brad Walker. And then there's "superstretch" by Jacqueline Lysycia, which I like.

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Felix Cane!! I love her style, so strong yet sensual and feminine. I know many guys who'd say, a woman with short her aint a real woman – then they see her and fall in love! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif (stupid guys, though, to say sthg like this ^^)

And Jenyne Butterfly – although in some of her vids on youtube she makes it a bit too much of a stipper show, which I don't like. I mean, I don't mind watching a good stripper show https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif but I don't like seeing it combined with pole on youtube by one of the world's best polers. This only underlines the prejudice of others towards poledancing.

And then, my teacher and studio owner! She brought pole dancing to Austria. She works so hard, and shows us everytime that you can achieve what you want if you work on it.

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I know, Veena!  https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif  Thank you! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_heart1.gif

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haha, thank you lilblondie https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_viking.gif