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Invert to inside knee hook into butterfly, ….. it is one of the easiest to learn on spin if you have the strength.
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We have Platinum stages poles in our studio, and have gradually switched out our stainless ones for brass because they just are easier to stick to. I don't understand the "smell" you are talking of.
I wonder if the brass poles you were on were Platinum Stages? Was it just a faint smell left on your hands? What do they clean their brass poles with?
J
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I have taken from her and she is a great teacher!
If you are doing private lessons be prepared to ask her to show you certain things you would like to learn if you are strong enough, have fun!
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It can feel like your bone is hurting, and it could be your tendon attaching to the bone. The muscles in your forearms go very thin from where they attach and get fatter the further from the connection point. ( The belly of the muscle we call it) Massage this part as it helps to release the tight muscle that is pulling on the tendon that is attached to the bone.
This use to happen to me when I started, and I would massage my forearms by taking my thumb and doing small circles on the belly of muscles while driving home. You will find the pain diminish, they are tight and over worked, and the muscles are pulling on the tendons..
But Proper wrist and hand placement is crucial and wrapping your fingers around the pole in a split grip with the bottom hand is problematic,
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"My boss just wanted what was safe & do the job he never wanted to try anything new or think outside of the box and he was super cheap, & didn't get that sometimes you have to spend $ to make $ concept."
I have heard this kind of quote many times from people who do not own companies employ people and have no clue what it costs to actually run a business. What many people don't understand is that in an unstable economy people who own business's are not willing or unable to invest money for a few reasons.
1st Banks are not lending to small business's. It is practically impossible to get any money to expand or start. That leaves the owner to spend his personal money to do so. All of you who are employed are also not spending all your savings on starting a business. You are all in here complaining. It is too easy to say that. To say they should risk the profits or their personal savings to try something new, when a lot of you won't even do the same thing is kind of hypocritical.
What many of you who are employed and not owners of a company do not understand is that you may make $20.00 – $50.00 an hour teaching pole, for example and the owner of the company often ends up working consistently a 50 -70 hour work week covering everyone who calls in sick, and her hourly wage ends up being less than $10.00 an hour. Sometimes less than that and sometimes no money at all in the slow months while employees still make $20.00 an hour.
Starting your own company will really change your perspective on " you have to spend money to make money" while at the same time make enough to pay your own bills when you are really in the end after all taxes and expenditures making $10.00 an hour or less.
Owning your own business can in one sense free you of the frustrations you have now, but there is a whole other side you have no idea about. Once you start a company and find out how many taxes and fees there are, and how cities, states, and the feds want you to pay more and more in taxes, , credit card companies, bank fees, commercial accounts of any kind are very expensive, it's very costly to run a business.
I can tell you as a business owner we are proud to pay our employees what we can afford to, and then to hear them talk like they deserve more, when maybe they do but there is not enough to so, and hear them complain like this it is disheartning…
I understand both sides, some of you don't understand both sides because you have not ever owned a company.
Just try o be thankfull for what you have.. We are really blessed here to all be able to make money, and support families and live like we do.
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I was a professional fine artist my whole life, made a really good living at it, painted landscapes, portraits, and did sculpture. Did monumental Bronze sculpture, public art, traveled and loved my life. THEN, the economy went bust with the whole Wall Street thing, every single one of my galleries that carried my work went under, public art money dried up, clients weren't buying. My life was gone.
For the 1st time in my life I found myself unable to make money, owned a home car, had bills. No one would hire me, never had a job, freaked out, and there seemed to be no option but dream up a way to make money in a horrible economy.
While the fine art industry was good to me, it is likely very similar to what you are doing now. I wanted to paint flowers, clients wanted southwestern scenes, Calif market wanted beaches, Midwest wanted traditional. Markets are markets and you have to paint for them, you don't get to create what you want. Even Michael Angelo had to paint the church ceiling. I was ready to go to work and have someone tell me what to do, know I would get paid, have the weekends off and not stress over if I would have a sale.
But no one would hire me. So, I wrote out a short plan, I refuse to do something I hate. I only like three things, Art, Animals and Fitness, it boiled down to those, they all don't pay well.
I ended up opening my own Pole studio and 5 years later am still here, and I also own Tucson Fetch Pet Care the company I worked for while I was an artist, by boarding pets at my home while I was there painting all day. It employees 10 people and keeps me very busy now.
Things worked out, but there was a lot of stress, and I had to be absolutely creative with finances. I had no money to start a business, just a credit card, did it on a shoe string and it has shown a profit since day one.
My most important advice though if you don't have a large savings account or money, is to live WAYYYY below your means, in order to make your dream happen. That is the only thing I did that made it possible for me to live my dreams. I had no debt, managed my money on an extreme budget, which most people would never do like I did..I wanted freedom more than I wanted to be tied to a job. Freedom to work in my PJ's, be the boss. Working more hours than usual, and making less moneh is OK with me, because I get to do what I want.
My advice is to pick what you love, or an idea that you know will work and run with it. I don't make a lot of money but I love my life. If you have something you beleive in, that you think will work, you have to try. Sucess will come after you fail at things, make mistakes, make huge messes, look like an idiot sometimes, but you can't move forward unless you take the step, and if you trip you just have to get back up. It really is kind of that simple. Tripping part hurts though https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif
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The shoes at our Pole studio are supplied for students to borrow and break all the time. Just take them to a shoe guy and they can fix them. If you can find out where most Dancers take theirs, you will find someone who always has stripper shoes on the shelf and is use to fixing them. We pay about $3.00 to $4.00 to have the buckles fixed and straps re-glued to the sole. Just shoe maintnence,
whish they were made better.
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Ladies that lose wieght and end up with some extra skin, or what seems like still flab, CAN benefit from weight training the legs, heavy weights to build up the muscle mass. Some good solid muscle mass on your thights can help a great deal,.. along with all the great tips already given.
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I had a photo shoot in a hotel room in vegas my 1st real professional shoot. The most difficult part for me was there was no mirror! I could not see myself, as I am use to and could not check out my pose to see if it looked good. Also turning my body toward the photographer perfectly was hard, you have to get up on the pole into your trick and then move yourself sideways if needed.
I was sweating and slipping, which I usually don't do. Fingers and toes become very important, for posing. I'll put some of my pics up on my profile for you to see, there were so many that did not turn out as my face expression was bad, my fingers were open, or the pose just wasn't perfect. Holding it for longer than you are use to is hard. If you can bring a freind who can run up and fix hair, fingers toes or tell you to fix a body part that knows pole tricks it will help! Lots of my beautiful hard tricks I have been doing for a while I could not do at the photo shoot because I slipped so bad, and frankly forgot them! Got to the shoot and forgot everything, got nervous!
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This is interesting! We have a few ladies that suffer so bad from sweat hands, I'm bringing some to the studio to try. I do have a question though for you sweaty palm girls, have you ever stopped wearing anti persperant under your arms to leat the sweat come out there instead of your hands? We have tried this at our studio and it seems to help.
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Tite Grip Neoprene Gloves are the best! Then you don't have to worry about tac wearing out, these are incredible! They also make the Tite Grip for sweaty hands.
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I just clicked on the link, I can't beleive they charge $200.00 for that!
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Have you called Platinum Stages and asked if they can get you one? I am sure they can!
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Brass poles are the ticket!!! they have way better grip than chrome!
Our studio went all brass, and we also got 3 skinny brass poles!
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You need to hurry and sign up for workshops as some are sole out! They gave added a few more. Go to this web site to see the workshops.
We are going from Tucson Arizona and there will be 5 or 6 of us so far going from Tucson Pole Fitness Studios!
