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In my experience that only ever happens with cheap poles. Get a studioVeena pole or an X-pole. Those things don’t budge as long as they are properly installed. Being safe is worth the money for a higher end pole!

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I truly believe that things come to an end to open you up to a better path. It’s tough but hang in there, take care of yourself, keep following your dreams. You may be surprised at what amazing things come next. Things you wouldn’t have had or experienced if you hadn’t lost what was previous! No one deserves to be treated poorly and if that was the case you are much better off now. I have been there and I never plan on letting someone treat me poorly again. You are worth more than that and I promise it does get better. Good luck on your journey and feel free to message me if you ever need to talk. -hugs

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I loved this class! It was very flowy. It was long, like an hour and a half. I was feeling it by the end of the warm up. I did this class and the hand balancing class. Both were well worth their cost in my opinion. I just wish you could have access for longer than one week.

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I think it really depends on who your target market is and how you are running your business. I teach aerials with my dad and we focus a lot on teen and family oriented classes. Our students are more interested in circus type apparatus and we plan on doing a fusion of chinese pole and pole dance. We have been talking to an instructor who wants to teach pole with us and offer classes to our clientele (I am just beginning at pole and no where near comfortable instructing it). A dress code and labeling classes as “pole fitness” would be essential to marketing based on our business model. Our goal would be to open pole up and down play the sexy so it can be offered to a younger group and exposed to our existing students. I believe we plan on holding workshops that will be a lot less strict and focus on sexy pole dance but our main classes will be heavy on fitness and marketed as so. I think a lot of businesses could suffer from offering something misunderstood by the community to quickly and in the wrong way. I think this is the safest way to not put my business at risk and slowly educate the community on pole dance and what it can be. I live in a place that does not have much exposure to these types of classes yet. They have seen one side of it, I can show them the other and they can land in between at their comfort zone with home practice or other studio resources we provide them. That being said, I think if my studio taught lets say pole dance and burlesque and focused on women over 18 a dress code would be more stifling than helpful. In my opinion, it all depends on your business and your students. Not every studio fits every student and I think thats a good thing cause people can try out a few places and find a true fit. Just my thoughts 🙂

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Squeak! That makes so much sense about untaped hoops! I have always wondered why anyone would ever use a bare hoop. They scare me to death! But thinking about what you stated, I started out in trapeze then moved to fabric and lyra…..and am struggling at learning pole. So I suppose I am just used to the grip of tape and used to covering myself with so much clothing to avoid burns and scrapes. Now I’m wondering how an untaped hoop would feel with more skin contact especially with the recent pole experience. Could offer a great opportunity to incorporate burlesque into shows more often. I would never be able to do burlesque with a taped hoop! Ouch! Thanks for the insight. 🙂

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I am the same way. I didn’t use my lessons until after I had had them for 6 months! I just couldn’t get motivated and when I was motivated from videos and such working on myself made me discouraged almost immediately. What I have learned is that if I put on music and get changed I have a much better chance of following through with it. I am lucky because my room mate knows how important it is to me and he will start music and make me get up if I am slacking. I also set really small goals now and strive to do more than I planned. I used to set huge daily goals that were impossible to accomplished. I cannot tell you how much that discouraged me from working on stuff because I always felt I had failed no matter how much I did. It truly is all in the mindset. It is hard to change to a positive mind set but totally doable with a little consistency. If you did want to try what Veena mentioned and set a skype date feel free to message me. 🙂

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Brett Copes is amazing! I have multiple apparatus from him and they are all really well made. He makes a lyra topper for x-stage poles that I am in love with!

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Thanks for the comments! Don’t worry about mistreatment. My situation wasn’t normal and I was warned there would be risks. I trust my doctor, he is very good. Unfortunately, one of my teeth were lodged into the jawbone and caused an infection that they were concerned would get to my brain. It was an emergency procedure and had grown so into the bone. The other three were done perfectly but I knew that one would be a difficult extraction. I was fully asleep for it and everything. I may need another surgery to fix everything. 🙁 The fracture is small but the jawbone may need to be filed done to heal properly. It is scary but it is better than what it could have been without surgery. I always have the weird stuff happen to me it seems.

Every time I think about choreography I want to get up and move. lol I am so bad at relaxing. I do crochet but I very rarely stay still long doing it. I am also down about 1/3 of my income because I perform and teach aerials and cannot at all right now. (I am new to pole but have done silks,lyra, and trapeze for about 5 years). So I can’t spend money on anything to do right now. Company might be a good idea but I’m pretty grumpy and have been kind of short with people lately so I’ll have to be careful who I am around. I wish my daughter would let me read! When I pick up a book it’s like a jealous light in her brain goes off and she’s all over me. I guess there is no answer I am going to like. But I suppose there is a lot I could focus on staying still. I think that movement has become like a daily meditation for me and I just simply miss it. Maybe I just subconsciously made this thread to complain. haha

I tried just stretching today, got dizzy. I guess I just need to give it up and rest! Anybody who feels inclined to send me awesome youtube links while I’m healing will be my best friend forever! 😀

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Thanks! This doesn’t have anything to do with the studio, it is just for my personal practice. I think you make a good point though. The thinner one seems like you could possibly still dance on it though and the thick one would be impossible. However, I’m pretty safety conscious with my other practices and pole shouldn’t be any different. I think I have been ignoring the safety aspects of pole in my own training because to me it is right off the ground comparatively. That is probably a bad mindset and I need to get better about that! Thanks for the advice! 🙂

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Im in for handstands or splits! Now to choose…

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I started off on spin mode and now spins are impossible for me on static! 🙁 I think my grip is too tight but I really wish I had learned everything on static first. A lot of other poles I have encountered don’t have spin mode at all.

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Some days I have certain tricks and the next day I won’t. I think that is common. Try not to over think what you are doing and just enjoy it, mistakes and all. I would recommend measuring your progress once a month. There will be fluctuations day to day and to focus too hard on those isn’t giving you a full picture of what you are accomplishing.

I totally understand the body stopping you thing. When I started aerials I was afraid of heights. I had instructors get really angry at me for freezing up or chickening out on things. Some of them even threatened to kick me out of class and said I wasn’t trying. But it was totally not my mentality stopping me. My body would just abort certain things, especially new things. I found that as I got used to them more and more my body would accept the movements. Repetition was key.

Of course I am no pro myself. This is just my take on things. Good luck with your new pole and stay positive always!!

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Thanks! I have not tried youtubes editor. I wish there was something similar in editing but where I didn’t have to upload the videos online. I’m kind of hesitant to upload unedited video to the web even if it is set on private. There is a lot in my videos that I want to cut out and throw away and never have a soul see. The way the pole squishes my body makes me cringe sometimes.

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I am purchasing that set as soon as possible! Mainly for the chinese pole stuff. I do have the felix cane set but I have only used the stretch dvd so I can’t comment but that one is pretty great. Looking forward to hearing people’s DVD opinions as well. I’m a bit of an instructional dvd junkie 🙂