dustbunny
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Just watched your spinning chopper video. 🙂
As good as it feels to pull off new moves, I would gently suggest that you leave this one be for awhile. Work on your abs, and just the regular basic invert. You don't look like you're sagging in the shoulders too badly, but your hips are staying too low. You're probably hurting your back muscles because they are compensating for your abs. You need to be able to pull your hips up higher, and that requires ab strength.
One thing that might help you too is looking behind you when you invert. As you bring your legs up, instead of looking up towards your feet and the top of the pole, tip your head back and look behind you, this helps teeter-totter your body, lifting your hips.
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I know of someone who used to have one posted. She had some issues with someone and took all her tutorials down, but I'm sure if you ask her, she will email it to you.
Look for her on facebook: Lola Poledancer
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I am also a virtual hoarder riding that grey area between legal sharing, and illegal stealing. Well here in Canada, technically as long as you don't make any money off it, it's generally ok. Anything you have on stretching for flexibility or free weights, I'd love if you would consider "sharing". 🙂
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Oh and I wanted to add to be careful with your stretching. If you're finding the DVD too intense, back off the stretches a little, you don't have to be at the same level as the person on camera. Just go as far as you can, and remember that every day will be different. Sometimes you wont feel flexy and that's okay, just push to the stretch that you can achieve at that moment and be happy with that. 🙂
Some tips if you are new to stretching.
Stretching should never cause sharp shooting pain! The worst you should feel is a slight pulling sensation, a bit of a discomfort more that actual pain.
Listen carefully to everything the instructor says; alignment principles are very important for preventing injuries. If they say to keep your knee over your ankle, keep it there, even if it means you cannot stretch as far. It will come with time.
Keep you back straight and long, unless a particular stretch says specifically to round your back. It will help you in the long run (with pole too, Veena loves to keep reminding us to keep our shoulders engaged, back and down).
That's all I can think of right now off the top of my head. I'm definitely going to check out that DVD though. Good luck. 🙂
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Great goals! 120 oz of water every day, I'm impressed. I'm trying so hard, and still only getting 64oz a day (and I'm not making it every day). Ooh a stretchy torrent eh? I'll have to look that one up, thanks for the tip.
Good luck with the rest of it! Poi looks so cool. Something I would definitely take a class for if I had the opportunity.
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Should add, I have the older style x-pole, not the x-pert,
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If the dome will span 2 joists, put it between them. If your joists are further apart than the dome is wide, then put it directly under a joist. My ceiling is drywall, and is at least that old. I have had my pole up and down a few times over the last year or more and never had ANY damage. 🙂
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I highly recommend Super C (Super Converter). It's free to download and will transform just about anything to anything!
My camera is the same, it makes MOV's that I would trasfer into AVI, or FLV.
Just Google it! 🙂
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I've never seen either of the first two before, Thanks for sharing!
That is what I want to achieve with pole, Felix is amazing though. I know that I don't have the time to dedicate to pole that it takes to actually get that good, but that is what I aspire to be. 🙂
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Can you do a butterfly?
If you let your lower leg come behind the pole and reach down with your free hand you can get a split-grip and push up into a butterfly!
Or if you can't do a butterfly yet, you can let your lower leg come behind the pole and reach down with your free hand, push your hips forward, and release the top hand (think one long straight line from free foot to free hand) into a Jasmine (Shooting Star on wikipole).
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I have never used a 50mm actually. I think I would probably fail miserably, but I still want to try it someday.
I originally started on a 38mm at the studio I went to, but when buying my own pole I decided to go with a 45mm. I figured because the difference was less it would be easier to get used to. Going back and forth was never a problem, I didn't really notice much difference.
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It really is just a matter of loosening up the grip on your legs. For the fireman, try crossing your ankles on the pole, but leave your knees just to the sides (like inches away from the pole) close, but not gripping. Hook spins, just loosen that death grip. But I do understand…I learned the cradle in pants, and when I first tried it in shorts it was soooo sticky and slow, pole burn big time! But it doesn't bother me at all now, and I rarely ever use pants because I like to go up the pole too, not just spinning down. My old instructor used to say, "The more you advance, and the higher you want to go, the less clothes you have to wear." I never wear more than short shorts, and sometimes at home I just rip my jeans off and pole in whatever undies I happen to be wearing. (Those practices never get posted though, lol)
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I would say your just as good without it for a while at least. I think some more advanced moves like the bow and arrow or archer come from the CAR position, but I know of people who do those from the CKR as well.
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LOADS of people find this one tricky! I have been poling over a year and a half and have only recently figured this one out. Actually, yesterday was the first time it was even somewhat easy. It's still not that stable (I have to go into it from an advanced plank, can't do it from a pole sit. lol) but I can walk myself down using my hands, and pull myself back up. I'm so happy to finally be able to complete the move.
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I record all my practices. At one time I had over 100GB of data…just of me poling! I had to change all the files to a different type so that they weren't as big. LOL I still have about 20GB. 🙂
It's great to have video proof of all (or at least most) of my "firsts". Also to see improvement over time.