Wcox
Forum Replies Created
-
@michellepange I tried different types of yoga pants. One pair was an epic fail but one pair I love on my silicone (same experience with shits and i have a sweet scar on my sholder back to show for it). I like to layer or have different clothes during my session To change. Since I have figured out what works well for me, I started planning what pants for what moves. Lol it took me about a month to get really comfortable with silicone and clothes.
-
@ambience24z9338 I ordered directly from xpole. I have never tried a sleeve so I may be a little biased but overall I am extremely happy with my silicone pole 🙂
-
@ItsEss – when I puchased my silicone, I had it up for about a month before I put up my chrome again. In terms of strength and learning new moves I personally find it extremely beneficial because I don’t have to worry about my hands and I can just focus on my new move. I think my learning process would have been longer on the chrome for some moves. Switching back and forth isn’t much of an issue for me in terms of the poles but I also take private lessons on brass poles (which I personally don’t like) so I am always using different piles. I don’t think I would like just having a silicone pole by itself though, some moves are just not as comfortable on the silicone (ie. Left side Scorpio push out to ayesha) but I can do it on my chrome. But I am just learning superman to shoulder mount trap split which seemed really hard on chrome and it’s now making sense to learn on my silicone first. Lol maybe it’s all in my head. Hope that helps!
-
I have a silicone Xpole. I can tell you that with the silicone you need to be careful with what your wearing, yesterday I wore a shirt that was too thin and now I have a burn on my shoulder. I love my silicone but I don’t think I would enjoy only training on that alone – I love my chrome when I need my skin to stick and my silicone when I’m first learning strength moves. Tough decision to make for sure.
-
Welcome! As someone who started with the site, I can tell you the lessons are awesome! Enjoy your journey.
-
Welcome to the wonderful world of pole! Enjoy the journey!
-
I started my journey with Veena’s lessons and decided to join a studio when I got to the inverts. I was extremely terrified of hurting myself. I have anxiety about most new moves – the worst was probably the cup grip shoulder mount. I have found with poling at home, there was a need to always be recording myself. Once I do something I watch to see what needs to be adjusted. The fears do go away 🙂
-
Interesting….outside of pole the majority of my friends are significantly older than I am by 20+ years. I tried to hang out with people my age and it was an epic failure. I think I was born in the wrong generation!
-
Head beside or in front of pole if flexibility will allow. When I was doing it and couldn’t get the hips up I had my body positioned incorrectly. Also with the inside (non swinging foot) I found it easier if it was bent when I was still standing.
-
Hey Trish. I had serious issues getting my hips up in the TG handspring. My issues was how I had positioned my body. when I had a private lesson, the instructor corrected my issues and boom I had it no problem. do you gave your body positioned in front of or directly beside the pole when starting? Bottom elbow bent? Keep top twisted arm a little lower (lower than I would have it from inverted Tg ayesha) when you swing the leg make sure the bottom arm extends. hopefully some of those tips help you. But please do be careful! As Veena said you can really hurt yourself. It probably took me like 7-8 weeks to finally get it.
-
Woo hoo! Congrats! Sounds like you are on a roll!
-
I deal with nausea without spinny pole I have never tried spin with my meds (And to be honest I don’t want to have to rely on them). When I’m feeling up to it, I usually end my regular session with spin mode so I don’t destroy my whole session. I’m getting okish with inverting now but I can’t do any moves from there without epically failing. It takes so long to get used to spin mode.
-
What kind of issues are you having inverting?
-
The journey is amazing. Enjoy each step! Good luck with the rest of the 30 day take off.
-
I also live in Canada but I live in an extremely cold climate. With my chrome pole the tricks that I use are – a space heater- turn it on a little big before I dance, both the room and pole have had sometime to heat up and it’s not freezing cold when I warm up. I stay clothed during my warm up so that I’m more warm when I’m ready to pole. For me as I became stronger the chrome became my preference, I now greatly dislike the brass in my studio. If you are going to use the shaving cream, my best tips are to use men’s shaving cream and the most standard one you can find. You don’t want one with moisturizers and aloe, like most female shaving cream. Good Luck And happy poling!