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Thank you, that is awesome!! Looks pretty but totally doable!

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mmoulor, I’ll try that, thanks!

Phoenix Hunter & jsheridan, I’d love to see videos!

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Are you sure no more than usual felxibility is needed? Everytime I try I just CAN’T get my butt onto my elbow.
Plus I can’t breathe which is super scary.
I do have a solid flag grip and can manage to get my upper arm horizontally, but still just can’t get my butt Close.

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No handed Jade? How does that go?
I haven’t had any victories in ages. I’m pretty much stuck.

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I don’t know the answer to your questions, but I have some advice:
Keep your head up high, don’t try to act in any way to please / not upset others, do what you love without hesitation. And try to ignore / see through peoples reactions and don’t respond to them or if you can’t avoid it, do it in a very professional way. Kindness is what irritates most people, if they expected to upset you.

That’s the way I do it, and, most of the time I get respected / being left alone. I practised this to a point where I don’t even notice these things anymore.
Wondering about these things just waste your precious time.

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Try to really lift your bum, lengthen your arms a bit and look behind (letting your head drop).
If it’s a strength thing, try this exercise:
Lay on your back with feet over your head on the floor. From this position, push up into an candle stick. Repeat several times and do it as slow as you can.

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and wanted to let our two students teach the now starting Level-1-course. We will to a teacher training ahead of each class to show them how teach the moves and we’ll supervise their teaching. We’ll conitinue to do so through the level-2-course as well. It’ll take some more work, but I hope that it’ll pay off in the end so they are able to teach the next level-1-course and the level-2-course after that all by themselves.

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Tigerschick, me and my friend spent a lot of time working out a system that can be repeated over and over and still is adjustable for something new. I think it works so well because we are a pole DANCE studio and not a tricks studio. That means, we usually create some dance moves around the trick(s) which can be swapped once in a while. And while we focus on dance, it takes the student more time to learn tricks, but when they do, they usually do them pretty on their first try. We focus a lot on form, so everything takes longer in the first place, so we as instructors don’t need to hurry to come up with the next trick.

In our strictly dance class we don’t have a plan at all, and since that class is drop-in and you never know who will turn up, we do the combos on the fly – which I really love because while I’m teaching, I sometimes get totally new ideas and moves, so that is a benefit for myself as well! If you want to know more, feel free to pm me!

Well, here in Germany the work-for-classes-thing would be considered black labor, but if you don’t shout out what you’re doing and everyone is briefed on what to say in case of questioning, I don’t think you get problems.
But you can always pay them very little and suplement it with free classes I guess.

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Thanks ladies! I really like some of your advice and will try to make it happen.
In fact, I thik even writing it down and “having said it” helped me a lot.

Yesterday was a really good day, althogh I was tired.
My first class was awesome, the girls didn’t complain as much (my monday class is my “oh-no-I-can’t-do-that-I’m-not-strong-enough-this-hurts”-class) and got some tricks the’ve been struggeling with.
My strong&flexi class was great (honestly it’s a class I mostly do for myself, otherwise I don’t really have time or energy to stretch much).
And at pole play, I even had time to practise a little bit for myself; I even did a cartwheel mount (my all-time-nemesis-move) on both sides with practically no help.

Before class I arranged a private with Hanka in May so I have something to look Forward to.

I will now start to look for a cleaning person and get the two girls I picked out to be instructors more into co-teaching my classes and prepare them, so after the summer vacation they might be able to teach a class together.
Me and my friend usually switch our classes, so the students get to have the best of both of us, and that’s what we also plan to do when the other two girls start teaching.
A front desk person is unfortunatlely out of question, I can’t afford that at the moment, but I like the idea. Maybe next year…

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Haven’t read the whole thing, but you probably won’t find out if Stripping is for you if you don’t try.
I mean, you can read books about it (and that’s a thing I would definetly do) but you won’t be able to really tell what it’s like if you don’t try.
So maybe just do an Amateur night or go and audition, then you still can decide if it’s for you or not.
And I strongly disagree on the clothing issue!!! Might help if you dress up as a tomboy, but that would to me feel like giving in, if you know what I mean. Men need to behave no matter what we wear! And some show us that they are truly able to, if they want to, so wearing “skimy” clothes is not an excuse for the “weak” gender to touch us!
I don’t want to have to wear a burka if I want to be safe. Just my two cents.

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For the noise & music thing I would suggest, place the phone beneath the speakers and it will catch rather the music than the floor sounds.

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Totally agree with Serzi and Runemist. Makes me mad as well.
I guess all we can do is don’t participate in competitios where they don’t let you do certain moves and have these strict costume regulations and continue wearing heels & bikinis and “gyrate” around our poles.

A friend of mine did an econmics study on negative image as a factor of success on the example of pole dancing and guess what: A lot of people wouldn’t have started if they didn’t think it was sexy. Surprise, surprise.

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Of course no one could do a shoulder mount. They lifted them up into one and held them up. Totally irresponsible, if you ask me. I would never do that!
But the people who walk into a studio first day usually don’t know much about the sport and since they call themself instructors the students think this must be right!
These girls came to me afterwards and said they were scared as hell!

But I also had some Girls walk in who had watched pole videos before and expected to learn a bunch of crazy tricks on their first day and were kinda dissapointed when I wouldn’t teach them how to invert.
(If they want to experience being upside down I usually let them crawl up into a reverse handstand, have them grip the pole in an in verted crucifix position and ask them if they want to take their hands off the floor. Most won’t.)
I even had a girl who asked me if I could teach her an Ayesha and leg switches when she couldn’t even climb and do a crucifix.

But usually they are happy when they learn a pirouette, a bodywave, a sexy walk, a sexy sqaut and a plie spin in their first class 🙂

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I know what you mean… There is one studio around here where they put beginners in their very first class up into a shouldermount so they can get a feeling what it’s like 🙁
Honestly, I don’t think as a spotter you can hold someone up in a shouldermount Position if something goes wrong.
I even heard of a girl who broke her toe at a bachelorette party at that studio when they put her into chopper and then went away for the picture.

But there is at least something good about it: They were the reason why me and my friend started our own studio, teaching dance moves and beginner spins to beginners 🙂

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I had a hard time doing the cartwheel Mount, it was just an issue going on in my head; I hate to do things with momentum, it makes me feel unsafe. So I was just scared.

For me it helped doing lots of handstands against a wall or door from a standing position to get a feel for the momentum you have to use and to get used to the Feeling of dropping the head while lifting the feet, if that makes sense.