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Is it because you feel your hands slipping, or because you feel like when your legs are moving up to get the knees to the chest to push out you are holding only from your hands now? I don’t really know how to help. I know I still have problems climbing the pole using the ways everyone teaches. I can get up the pole easily, but I kind of frog my way up (hard to describe) and it’s not the way the teachers want me to do it. However, knowing that I can get up if I needed to is good to make it so I keep trying to get the actual pole climb correctly. You may find you need to adjust slightly to feel secure when you move your legs, so you don’t worry about falling off the pole.

[marithim]

@ Webjunk,
I agree but for a different reason. Not having homework is normal because most studio’s assume that you don’t have a pole at home. As for once a week classes, if there is constant rehashing of the material, you should possibly talk to the teacher. My studio only does each level once or twice a week (in the morning and in the evening) and it is expected that each student can only attend one of the classes a week. To be fair my studio is a woman’s fitness studio that does a pole -yoga variant, a chair fitness class and fly gym classes as well and is pretty small.

Have you talked to the instructor at the studio? Tell her than you like coming, but every time you come they do the same things, maybe ask her what days you should go that are better, or ask her to keep that in mind when you sign up for the classes. Also, Studio Veena can help supplement (especially if you didn’t really get the move the first time in class), and there are other dancing videos that can help as well, or give a different perspective (I have the Felix Cane DVDs as well).