stoneycook
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@Hana. Oh my Melanie Safka, "Lay Down". Must have hummed that tune a hundred times.
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For a barefoot like experience has anyone every tried leather or canvas ballet or gymnastic shoes. If you're looking to cover just the balls of your feet an nothing else there's a great product called line you can find by googling "dance cats paws".
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Just started this "sitting" thing as well. Ouch. Yet one small thing for me really helped anchor my thigh grip, especially when both legs where extended to the other side of the pole. Instead of keeping a level pelvis, one with both sit bones (ischial tuberosit) are equidistant from the floor, a slight lateral tilt in the pelvis really added to my griping power. I was amazed how much I could relax my muscle contraction and still feel secure.
When attempting to even curl around the pole while sitting, the pelvis tilt really paid off. Curl around to the right, tilt the right side low was a winner for me. Thank you Lindsey.
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Maybe you are talking about your IT band.
It's a pretty thick band of fibrous tendon tissue that runs down the outside of the leg. It begins at the hip, runs over the greater trochanter and extends to the out side of the tibia, shin, just below the knee joint. You can certainly overload it. You can stretch it in a few ways
1) Lie on your back with the effected leg pointing up at the ceiling. Reach your far hand across and gently pull the leg across the midline of the body, while the injured leg remains extended.
2) The yoga pose named the Revolved Triangle Pose
3) A foam roller works well.
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"Meet the Beatles" featuring "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Hey at least they're on iTunes now.
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CeledeBcn. The very first pole exercise I created, went I started just a scant month ago, was one to warm up the pole in a slow zen-line manner, from high to low. Its sole purpose is to heat the metal, sensitize the center of my palm to the curve of the pole and to drop and engage my shoulders and scapula downward. Nothing special for someone to look at, just a nice way to center myself around this wonderful vertical barre I'm about to spiral about.
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My first slice of pole movement and choreography is flowing out using Henryk Gorecki's – Symphony No. 3: II. Lento E Largo – Tranquillissimo. Just trying to link together the few pole movements I know with some shape, flow and sense of continuum.
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I was positive that in X-Pole Titanium was the was to go till I tried both Chrome and TG, side by side. Strangely when both poles get warm and I get sweaty in my palms, I slip when using TG. The one issue I wish I had spent some more time on before purchasing was diameter size. The first time I tried a split grip, the immediate thought was 45mm not 50mm.
Personally I figure one's preference will change as experience grows yet having a personal pole to work at home seemed more important to me than waiting. Nothing wrong with reselling and trading up to something new later down the road when the proper fit becomes apparent.
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Excellent points, Empyrean.
Hyperextension of the knee is a hard to track and tackle. We all contract in the upper thigh to straighten the leg and knee but with hyper-mobility, one travels beyond the point of a properly aligned leg: knee above the ankle bone, pelvis above the knees. One is out of plumb, so to speak. I know for dancers that hyper extended legs might be admired for the look of line in a dancer's gesturing leg, it causes quite a few problems in a standing side as the pelvis starts to tick under and the tights bulk up.
It's hard to find that place of a neutral knee as you feel like your legs are bent, not straightened. I don't know enough about pole technique to really comment on how you should consider any ramifications. However one things that works for some I know is the idea of lengthening the leg out from a "neutral, placed and engaged pelvis", not finishing the movement at upper quad muscles. The line of energy travels up the leg through a relaxed rectus femoris, finding a termination point deep in the pelvis and psoas muscle group. That way the quad is more relaxed yet the leg feels elongated not bent.
It takes quite a bit of work to retrain the the leg but I feel that work is well worth the effort.
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Helping the general public recognize that there are elements of pole dancing that many do not comprehend is a benefit to acceptance of the art form for sure. Olympic accreditation would accelerate that journey.
However the sure fact there will more likely be a form of Olympic pole dancing in which the sensual side of the work is abstracted, feels a bit unsettling to me. Many of the roots of this work would be off limits. Others before me in this tread point out that obvious factor quite clearly.
Maybe the male side of pole would actually receive a bigger boost in the butt so to speak. Validation and recognition. Still I fear that pole Olympics would migrate into pole gymnastics by nature. That's one part of the pole pie but most assuredly not the impetus that brought me to this art form.
In the end I look at this the same light I would consider ballet, modern, jazz or hip hop as an Olympic routine. NOT. It's a performance art, internally and externally. Sure you can judge it but honestly would you want to watch a sexless tango?
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Ever try a Theraband? I use one to rebalance the pressure receptors in my sprained deltold ligament to great success. The simple elastic band works great for pointing and flexing exercises plus promotes strong arches and proper articulation.
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I've known quite a few dancers who crunch or pop, one past partner who made her own music when she moved in certain ways. Unless there is some displacement of alignment or pain I've never seen it be a problem. The pop is just the sound of some resilient soft tissue cartilage passing over a condyle or bump on the bone. Another thing worth looking into are bursa fluid sac issues with your joints.
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Simply Sweet.
Excellent suggestion. A circular cut fits right inside the dome and acts to stop any lateral slip. This trick was also pointed out to me by the X-Pole dealer, Leela at Pole Bliss.