polergirl
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I just posted two short vids. Certainly not my best dance work lol but I think they show clearly what I was trying to explain.
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lilred — you should be able to keep the outside foot on the pole for stability while you ease the hips around and hook the inside leg. I will record a short vid showing it from the floor as soon as possible. 🙂
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Adding to my earlier post, this might be helpful…work this from the ground to give yourself a chance to sort out hand and leg position. Stand in front of the pole, hold behind waist, feet in back of the pole so you’re holding with thighs, similar to your hold in CAR. Now twist your torso to one direction and get the front of one shoulder to the opposite side of the pole. That’s your flag arm. Pull elbow close to hip and wrap forearm to pole, you’ll see it really seats the pole in your armpit. Other hand goes in handshake grip well above head (so when you’re inverted thumb is down). From here, practice allowing your hips to come to the side of the pole and getting that inside knee hooked securely. If this doesn’t make sense I can film a quick tutorial, just let me know. 🙂
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Body waves, on pole, on stomach, on floor, on knees — they’re about as slithery/slinky as I can imagine. 🙂
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I do a version of it right at the end of this video. https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/537bf5f4-2d08-45fc-b9eb-13da0a9aa0eb
You can tuck legs up, keep body horizontal, or let legs extend a little which is what I did here. Reach back up like you’re going to straddle out, allow hang leg to come off pole….voila. 🙂
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I like to bring both legs behind the pole and cradle spin down. It works with the existing momentum, you can vary the leg position to make it interesting, and it’s easy. Win!
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Those do sound convenient! Just messaged you! 🙂
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I meant to say with both of these–by from the floor I mean from on your back, on the floor. 🙂
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My best advice: work both from the floor. Do your outside leg hang (get hips HIGH HIGH HIGH to simulate the real thing best) until you can feel your knee out holding you. Believe me, you’ll know when it is. Also, the inside leg in your outside leg hang is also important because if you don’t drop it from the hip you’ll have a much more difficult time pressing your side into the pole. Extend that free leg and it happens like magic.
Layback from elbowstand, or from a shoulder stand if you’re not comfy in elbowstand. Practice sitting up from that position. If you can sit up, you can certainly lay back…..and it’ll give you security to play with positioning until you get it right. Roll thighs inward, HARD. Squeeze glutes and hamstrings, HARD.
You might also upload a video here, lots of great troubleshooting available! 🙂
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I think it’s *crazy* for studios to allow alcohol at parties. Take a bunch of people who aren’t used to spinning on poles, throw a few cocktails into the mix, and you have a barf-fest waiting to happen. Never mind the liability concerns. i’m sure there are studios that do it without any problems, but I can’t even imagine it.
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Brass bridge to aysha or straight edge works like a charm.
To me an outside leg hang is the little black dress of inversions. You can take it into so many things!
–inside leg hang
–hip hold
–shooting star AKA jasmine
–climb to hood ornament to sit
–butterfly
–inverted thigh hold
–cupid
–knee hold
–genie
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If you look at what the hooked foot really does….it presses your *ankles* together, which gives you leverage and makes it easier to roll your thighs in. Try from an elbowstand/handstand on the floor, and work on engaging the inner thighs and pressing the ankles together (specifically the outside heel of your top foot onto the front outside of the ankle of the bottom foot) to see if you can point both toes.
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How are your hands placed? When I teach this move I have students use a flag grip with the elbow high up as close to the hip as possible. This gives them the mobility to get the hip away from the pole — there’s more play in your upper arm when it’s set high like that. From there I have them keep the top ankle pressed against the pole until their knee hook is secure and stable.
When sitting up from brass monkey, you can help yourself by pushing off the pole at about waist height with your inside hand. 🙂
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Raven Kai – these ladies have some FAB transitional work, IMO. Very creative. I don’t remember how exactly I found them, but I favorited them immediately. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/user/Elegium/videos?view=0&shelf_id=1&sort=dd