poledanceromance
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I’ve been working on this lately. I’ve now had my pole on spin over two weeks, haven’t worked on static at all. This is totally a new record for me! That said, I’m doing everything on spinny as slow as possible, trying to control my momentum and building up to spinning faster.
Funny story: last week I got my first acceptance letter to law school and I was SO excited. I ran over to my pole and did a celebratory shoulder mount because my body could not contain my joy…unfortunately joy seems to translate directly to momentum, and when I hooked my legs I found myself spinning at approximately the speed of light. I got my arms out and slowed myself down enough to be able to dismount, and stumbled around my house like a drunk for about ten minutes, then felt like I had a hangover the rest of the night. I learned my lesson!
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That’s the idea Maria! It seems being able to wrap the hand all the way around like a baseball bat gives the Aussies their magical pole powers. When I first got to work with a 45, I felt like I had just magically got better at pole. But hell, if I thought wearing a thanksgiving turkey on my head like a hat would give me those skills I would probably do it. I think my next pole might be the 40, but at least the 45.
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Have you gotten a few attempts on video?
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I also love to break up my workout with cleaning tasks, but that usually stretches my pole sessions out all afternoon/evening if it was time I’d set aside to clean. If I have about five minutes and really want to pole, I just put on a song that I’m really into that day and dance through it, focusing on getting everything warm in five minutes. Sometimes I won’t even change clothes, just kind of tango with my pole on my way by!
I also like to do intervals, particularly tabata protocol. If I need to get down to business/haven’t got much time I know I can throw on my favorite workout pants and my sneakers and KILL myself in under 15 minutes.
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Everything chemmie said. It’s about stopping looking at pole as a series of benchmarks to meet and start approaching it like you would approach a classical study. For everything, ask: why did I just do that? What could make that better? What was really good? Could what was really good be even better? Does that look like I pictured it to look? If it doesn’t, why not? For every new move you want to learn, ask: what muscles techniques does it use? Do I have all those techniques? If not, what other moves/conditioning can I work on that will hone those techniques?
I think whenever I answer one of those questions, I’ve learned something that will help me.
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Diana I think you probably already got it but do you have the quick release tools? If not the chopsticks work okay for this too just not as well. So I take the heavy wrench from the tool kit, and give it one quick really solid BANG the direction it’s supposed to turn. That one quick shock usually unsticks it so it can be turned. I have to shock mine apart every time on every joint. But I don’t mind, I LOVE my original x-pole. I dig the new xpert poles but…those ones aren’t my pole. 🙂
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Crap posted too soon.
And that gap is where the hands go. If they’re inverting and hooking the leg with the body facing the pole, it’s hard to get in the right position. If the body is sideways in the invert like in a chopper, where the tummy is pointing straight up and the leg hooks from there, it’s easier.
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That may be because they are not getting the pole into their side. Did you see Felix’s recent sample video from the DVD about the outside leg hang? She teaches it how I do. If the pole is going across your stomach, like if you don’t have your belly button pointed up with the pole pressed to your side and it’s pressing across your belly button, there’s no room for your hands. You really have to almost think of hooking that outside knee and turning the body away from the pole to get the torso to settle upright. When the torso is in the right position, there should be a gap between the hooked leg and where the pole contacts the torso.
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That I would experience and subsequently break out of many, many plateaus. Each one has felt final, none have been.
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It’s just come out that he was on the phone with a friend when he was shot. The girl is stating that he told her that he was scared, that he was trying to evade someone who was following him. She’s stated that she heard his killer say “fucking coons!” over the phone. Then his killer claimed he shot the unarmed child in self-defense.
That he was murdered in cold blood is not in doubt. That his murder was motivated by the racism of his attacker is not in doubt. That his killer unjustly walks free is not in doubt. The question is whether the state will be held accountable for its negligent error in investigating the case, and whether Trayvon’s killer will EVER be subject to justice.
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I like that grip for doing inverts directly into a thigh hold. With the standard baseball grip the top hand is wrapped right where the thigh would grip, where the hand is forward and out of the way with the “true grip” invert.
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Simulated f*cking. That’s what men like. Sorry to put such a fine point on it 😉
If he can imagine himself f*cking you in the position you are in, that’s a move he’s going to like. Men are simple, simple creatures. Banana in one hand, penis in the other.
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Love love LOVE that you went to an Elayne Angel piercer for your triangle. Most people don’t even know who she is. Hell, most people don’t know what a triangle is. I have a vch and had always thought about a triangle but I’m not brave enough. Would ONLY go to an Elayne Angel approved piercer for it, though.
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Trust me when I say you have no reason to be embarrassed about getting it done professionally. Trust me when I say your hair disaster is not a disaster compared to some of what I’ve seen LOL. Second of all, anything else you do to your hair at home risks it even further. Would you rather have the hair rescued once and for all or have broken off, uneven colored hair that you have to keep using box dye after box dye? When your hair is ten funky colors and breaking off in clumps, that’s a lot more embarrassing than going to a studio to get the color corrected.
They can use a gentle but rich professional Demi-permanent dye with no ammonia or peroxide that won’t destroy your hair but will actually make it healthier. It’s the quickest and easiest way to move forward from bad color.
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Practice makes perfect. I’ve had one day without polish since last July. After a few months of sticking with it, I can actually do my right hand pretty much as well as the left. Just be ready with acetone and cotton balls so if you totally bork one you can wipe off right away