polergirl
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TG from on the pole is also muuuuuch less damaging than handspring kicking into TG anything. Less force twisting on the shoulder in jerky fashion.
I don’t do it and I don’t teach it. Have seen too many people complaining of injuries and soreness after doing it for awhile.
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I am a permanent passenger on the Bembo train. That woman is incredible. I love that she doesn’t bust out trick after trick after trick but the work she does is soooooo deceptively impossible lol.
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It might create more opportunity … but how would “plus-size” be determined? I feel like having competitions that are specific as to body type/size could lead to problems. Maybe not but that’s my gut reaction.
I heartily believe that pole is for everyone, and I have concerns that the competition mentality (which seems to be growing every day) can be harmful to “everyday” dancers who aren’t able to train like elite athletes and who simply may not have the genetics necessary to have a competitive poler’s physique. I include myself in the everyday group for sure. There are very thin people who have difficulty putting on weight and gaining muscle, and not-thin people who have difficulty taking weight off and gaining muscle. If we look to current competitive polers and competitions as the benchmarks for what we as pole dancers “should” be we are hurting ourselves tremendously….in my opinion, anyway.
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PDR, exactly. I don’t mind the memes in and of themselves (though some of them are kinda lame and cheesy, IMO) — but I do mind the implication that I’m less-than if I dont have a full six-pack. So many of these images come out of, as you say, mostly unhealthy practices to cut up before a photo shoot. Yet we’re being told that if we don’t have abs that could slice paper, it’s because we’re not trying.
And people who are naturally very thin, who have difficulty putting on weight and muscle mass…. fitspo is every bit as negative for them. They’re being told their bodies aren’t right either.
I feel like fitspo is just another way of propagating a body-shaming mentality.
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The “Tutorials” section of PoleFreaks is also FILLED with videos ripped from YouTube, etc. There was an emotioncatcher tutorial on the very first one I clicked. Some of the videos aren’t videos that were posted as tutorials in the first place, they have titles like “working on my aerial invert.”
So if you have any pole vids out in the world, you might want to click through and see if there’s anything of you being used without permission.
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There have been some stories about people being fired when “real world” bosses discovered they were pole dancers/pole instructors. It’s really a question of how conservative a world you’re about to enter. I have friends in very conservative fields who teach pole dancing, and they are simply very careful about how public the latter becomes. They don’t compete, don’t have their faces/full names plastered all over pole-related websites so they’d come up in a search, etc.
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My best advice to flow “block” is to just dance, dance, dance, dance, dance. Put on songs that make you want to move no matter what. Don’t worry about whether or not what you’re doing is a “move,” just do what feels good and keep moving–don’t let yourself stop and think!
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Coincidence has it that I wrote a blog post about how no pain, no gain is a HUGE lie we’re told.
http://unitedpoleartists.blogspot.com/2014/01/no-pain-no-gain-is-big-fat-lie.html
Please note, when I refer to dancers asking how to get around an injury, IN NO WAY was I referring to this thread. Gata’s post here was clearly not about “how can I keep using my shoulder to do all of my tricks even though it’s effed up?” and more about “my shoulder won’t stop me from doing floorwork and other fun related things while I rehab it, will it?”
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I have so many!
Layback to EG aysha to shooting star to inside leg hang to inverted thigh hold to shoulder dismount is an all-time greatest hits kind of fav.
Also love back hook spin straight into a side climb, knee hold or cupid, flip down into inside leg hang, flip body to the other side of the pole and climb over to invert again.
Ooooh, or pretty much anything that gets me to an outside leg hang that I can climb over into a spinning hood ornament. Love. 🙂
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That sounds like it could maybe be a strain in your inrercostals. Those take a LOOOOONG time to heal, in my experience anyway. Definitely see a doctor and follow any/all rehab suggestions from him/her. Good luck!
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If you really squeeze your glutes it will protect your tailbone to a great extent. I bruised my tailbone badly way back (not pole related) and it was a good 2 months before it felt right. It was probably 3 months before I could comfortably do a layback again, and that’s one of my favorite moves.
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Ooooh, yeah, someone mentioned Chalese Marie. She’s another of my very very very favorites. Tell me this isn’t crazy hot.
Warning, explicit lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGrpwwVmweMAnd then this second one is just plain fun and AWESOME. 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkx_euqAYlI -
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x2 what Kobajo84 said about bottom hand placement on the carousel spin.
In general, my best advice without seeing what you’re doing is this: check your alignment. If your wrists aren’t neutral you’re putting a lot of pressure and weight on them from a torqued position.
Also, have you been working your way into things like the carousel and inverts? Many spins aren’t necessarily beginner moves, and inverts certainly aren’t. So even if you danced before it’d be a good idea to ease into it with proper conditioning (if you’re not already).
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A Juliet spin variation, yep, teachtrinity is right on the money! 🙂 Make sure you’re not hooking your elbow too high, or your hips won’t be able to get any distance from the pole. Also, make sure your plant foot is far enough away and to the side of the pole. If you’re planted behind the pole you won’t get your outside leg/kneepit in front of the pole.