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And they’re black not pink
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Danskin thigh high stirrup legwarmers are what I have and love them. Everything else was too short for me or looked too flimsy so I went with an actual ballet company although they are a bit pricey
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I have that same dvd and it really comes down to practice and patience. If you take the bits and pieces you *can* do, and refine and do them to the best of your ability, i.e. saying ok, I can only get my leg this far, but I’m gonna keep my lines straight and point my toes etc you’ll be surprised at what starts to come together. Getting better at anything is largely repetition. Veena has floorwork videos on here as well that you might find more to your liking. And don’t limit yourself by assuming you can’t do something just because you can’t do it right now. I have almost all of Alethea’s DVDs and she makes several comments throughout that it took her three years to attain her flexibility and eight months to get her bodywave. Nothing is instant, unfortunately 🙂
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The pain you are describing I had for about five weeks and just got over, I laid off of inverting and it went away but I am now scared to invert again for fear of reinjuring it. I’m at a loss as well as far as what to do about it, I tried doing pole holds again and while it is healed I still feel the strain in the muscle when that arm is the higher one. When it’s in the low position on the other side everything feels fine. Both of my pole teachers have had me inverting since my second class (I’ve been poling about five months now, more seriously for about two) so I think this might be part of the problem. My right side is strong but the left in my case just might not be up to it yet. I’ve been doing strength training on the side now, but I’m frustrated too because I can’t do pole holds on that side to strengthen it. Based on your post and hearing other stories this seems to be fairly common with inverting too early, I think.
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While I do stretch often, maybe I’m not stretching my shoulders specifically enough? I do yoga and foam roll and I also do Felix Cane’s flexibility dvd. I am thinking actually it’s in the way I practice my pole holds, it’s almost like I am keeping my hands TOO low and taking all the weight into my back and not my biceps or anything. I hold my hands at head level, is this wrong? I have done Veena’s pole hold lessons a few times and also with an instructor in person and I’ve never noticed if my hands are too low but this seems to be when it starts to hurt. It’s also only on the left side. And I’ve been doing a lot of them lately because I want to build up the core strength for the v-invert and it was suggested to me that I do these every day. It doesn’t hurt enough that I’ve stopped poling I’m just taking it easy and icing it in between and it’s getting better but not going away.
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While I do train both sides I for sure favor my dominant side, especially when trying to figure out something new. I can definitely see what you mean and I’m going to try to be better about it! I also think, as I haven’t been poling all that long, that as I gain strength in my right arm I’m now starting to use the left to really push away and get more ‘air’ on the spins and the pushing muscle is reacting to overuse. I’m using today as a rest day and it isn’t hurting nearly as much as a few days ago. I just want to be on my pole as much as possible but I have to learn to tone it down I think, as taking a few passes at a move once a week is a big difference from being able to try it as much as I want. In the mean time I use my foam roller, I do yoga and I use my inversion table as much as possible 🙂
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I will definitely try to do them a bit less and save them for the end like you suggested. Thanks for the tips!
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Hi Veena, yeah I actually don’t even really mean to do them for an hour I just get in a zone and don’t realize how much time has passed 🙂 I have been doing the conditioning exercises, both yours and a few other things. The pain is mostly in my left (non dominant) shoulder, I notice it when in the ‘pushing’ position when the arm comes across the chest and holds away from the pole. I’m just trying to determine if I need to build more strength in that shoulder or if I just need to tone down how much I’m doing it!
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Oh definitely! I warm up and do a yoga cool down and foam roll, etc. I have a dance background so safety is very important to me. I’m also wondering if it’s my shoes, I recently got some pleaser boots and they are considerably heavier and may be the added weight bothering me. Thank you for the input though!
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I was wondering about this too…recently got a 45mm and it was doing the same on static and then kind of went away with use but I tried it on spin the other day and it was creaking so much I didn’t feel like it was a good idea to keep going. I think it might be overtightened but I’m too paranoid to loosen it.