dustbunny
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Lol. 😂😂😳😳 It came up in the daily update today and I didn’t realize the op was so out of date. I was a little confused as I was pretty sure you were well past this but you never know as there are lots of things below my level that I have never trained.
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@Phoenix
Veena is right, lots of side pole holds, and tuck knees to chest in your side pole hold. Try holding the knees up for a couple seconds before releasing them. Try lowering the knees as slow as possible too. Also the negatives, in any “lifting” move the negative or “lowering” of the move is a good strength builder. For this start from your basic invert position, really engage your abs and shoulders, lower your legs into a tuck and SLOWLY tip your hips away from the pole. As your hips come down remember to bend your arms and pull your face to your hands. You should end up in a side pole hold.
Good luck these are hard, but if I remember correctly you can press into a head/handstand so I’d put money on the fact that you do have the core strength, just need to train the technique. ☺ -
I’m so jealous. I would love to train pole in Australia. ☺ 💖 I wish you all the best!
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When you have a solid caterpiller/butterfly you can start working the “Inverted D” I don’t know if Veena has a lesson for that one but Aerial Amy just put up a blog about split grip aysha that includes it. From there you can move to an extended butterfly. Once that is solid you can try Veena’s “half cartwheel” or “half handspring”. It’s a good place to start handspringing from and does not require an Aysha!
Before doing full cartwheels or handsprings it is necessary to have a solid Aysha.
To gain the dead lift you can work on the negatives, that is lowering as slow as possible with control to the floor. Then try lowering part way down and come back up. It only gets closer from there. ☺ -
You do not need Aysha to try the half cartwheel or half handspring. But i agree that you should have it before you go on to the full versions. And split grip was easiest for me too, although I have recently had a bit of a breakthrough with my elbow/forearm grip caterpillars getting much stronger and more comfortable so I should try those Aysha versions again. ☺
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Start slow. Try lowering from Inverted Crucifix and try the “dead lift hang” I don’t know if it has an actual name but it would be the starting position for a TG lift; upright position, facing away from pole chest and face up. Try both sides only a few times per side and then back off on TG for a couple days and listen to your body. Rinse and repeat.
You are body aware enough to know if it’s working for you or not. And post your tries! I can’t wait to see.☺ -
Not a specific dancer but try searching for “dance filthy” videos or “bringing sexy back”
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It’s very sticky! I nearly got my hands/thighs stuck together and almost couldnt get my pants back off again later on…be careful where you put it.
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You can invert either way, that part doesn’t matter. ☺
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It doesn’t look bad at all but try switching your hands; inside hand on pole, outside hand grabs free leg. ☺
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@jdub And I wish I could get my hubby to pole with me! Lol
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I like to teach freaking a couple of ways. First off start small, aim to dance continuously for 30 seconds. When that becomes easy move to 60 seconds, then 90, etc. Secondly, especially when you are just starting out pick a few simple moves or a simple combo like Rune suggested. Walk, half spin, pirouette, change direction. And if you can’t think of anything else you can always just do that over and over.
I always say that my only freestyle rule is that you can’t stop moving. It doesn’t matter what happens, you can’t stop until the time is up! Start with small blocks of time, the more you do this the easier it will become and the more you will be able to challenge yourself. Once you are a little more comfortable and you are working with longer blocks of time you can begin to challenge yourself with small specific goals. Maybe a new move, or something more vague like a challenge to work in both directions, or to use more vertical space (ei. Floor work, standing work and aerial work).
You can do this! Just like everything else, it just takes practice. -
Welcome jdub,
You’ll find the lessons here are more than worthwhile. 💖 It’s so much easier than trying to find tutorials on youtube; because they are all in order, you know what tricks you should work on next. Also you can check the descriptions and related lessons to see if there are prerequisites to the move you want to learn.
This site is very supportive to polers of all genders so feel free to ask questions and post your trials, training, successes and fails! I can’t wait to see what you can do. 😀 -
It’s soooo cute! 😠ðŸ˜
I got my first tattoo on my calf last year. It took approx 2 weeks to heal completely (no scabs and stops peeling). Then I was careful with it on the pole for another week or so, since then I havn’t worried about it. I have had no problems. ☺ -
I could be wrong but I think Aerial Amy posted about this not long ago too. Maybe a blog on her site or something?
It is such an important message to spread, and I post plenty of fails or funny bits too. Life is too short to take seriously people, let’s all laugh at ourselves and support each other, not the other way around okay!