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Hi from Germany!

Me and my friend started off very similar: There wasn’t a studio around us that was close enough and that we liked, so we just opened our own. We are renting a quite affordable room in our home town and it’s going well 🙂

We just do it as a side job so there wasn’t a huge risk besides losing the money we spent for paint, floor, mirrors etc., but the bills of the running costs were paid from the first month.
And we didn’t have students before. Now we have 20 and the number is currently growing.

So I’d say:

YEAH, GO FOR IT!

Even in small towns people like to pole dance, and the cost for rent is a lot less. If we had a studio right in Cologne (a 1 million people city)we would pay 4 times the price!

1000 Dollars is not much for studio + appartment! It’s about as much as I pay, so, yes, it works.

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Why are they closing? Just curious.

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Thank you all for your congrats!!!
This is something I really love about this community: Everyone is happy for others when they get a move 🙂

Well, knee hold was actually one of the moves that I really wanted to get, from the very beginning of my pole journey. In my very first video you can see me practise it (and fail, of course). I thought I would never get it, but there it is now. And as often, I don’t even know WHY it happened and why it doesn’t hurt anymore. Strange.

Cherished & Flighter, do you know of videos of these combos? I’m a visual learner, I need to see it, otherwise I can’t imagine it…

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Just pre ordered 10 for my studio 🙂

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I’m struggling with this too. But I’m afraid to hurt my chest so I always land on my feet instead of pulling my legs back. If I have someone pulling my legs I can do it. Well I guess I just have to do it 100 times like this until I can switch off my head.

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Great thread! Got some new inspiration already! Here’s my list of 5:

kings of leon – closer
rob dougan – left me for dead
robert pland – sister rosetta
scorpions – still loving you
cream – white room

And many more…

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Me and my friend just started in January. Only as a side job though.
We got our bills paid throm the first month, and it will probably be by the end of 2015 when we got back the money we had to invest. But that’s ok I guess.

We started off with one 8-week course and have 3 right now (starting an new one every 2 months). We want to go up to 5, plus we have an intro class, 2 strong & flexi classes and pole jam.

It’s just a small studio (7 poles in one room) but we love it!

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I can’t twerk… Just don’t know what to do. I can do hip circles and booty shaking, but no twerking. Don’t know why.

handspring mount & caterpillar mount… just too afraid to jump (and too weak to deadlift).

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Hi from Cologne!!

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Thanks Cecilie! I tried Rabiosa last night and it worked well 🙂

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Well we don’t have WIFI at the studio (just running it as a side job and only open for the few classes we have) so any sort of internet radio is out.

We use a really cheap tablet as an mp3-player which works well for us; however, I have to download music at home then load it up on the tablet.

Music rights is a very important topic in Germany, so I contactet GEMA (they represent all musicians here and make everyone pay) before we even opened. I have to pay 3% off all the money we make with our classes :-/

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johnssdeere, what are EDM and Pandora?

sparrow, I usually do the same warm-up routine (with little variations) at the beginning of each class. I found that music with a constant and dominant beat works best… I usually pick one of the two songs named before since they work perfectly, but yeah, I definetly need some variation. I tried other songs but they were either too slow or too fast or just boring.
It’s not very easy…

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Can someone please post a picture of the stag superman? I have no idea what it looks like. Thanks!

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Thank you all so much! I put that video on my tablet, among others, to show them.

Another question: It’s been a while, but I remember that someone posted a picture where you could see pole dancers and other athletes doning very sililar poses in camparison. Does anyone know where to find that?

And another one: Does anyone have any video suggestions of someone pole in heels without beilng sexy?

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I got everything from Xpole UK. I already contacted them but didn’t get a reply yet.

Ok good to know they sent me some old pieces for replacement. There are some more issues (dents, adjuster cover doesn’t go up the whole way). I hope they’ll exchange them as well…