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no, 45.  my ps pole is a 50  https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_porc.gif

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sorry chemgoddess!  we must have been typing at the same time!  LOL

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i ordered it!  (btw the ps brass would have been 603 w shipping, l'il mynx 394)  🙂

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never mind  https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_safesex.gif

i ordered the l'il mynx!  the PS brass would have been $209 more (with shipping)!

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yes, i hope so!  the same one as you!  do you still like yours? 

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it's the same way for me, shellectra.  it's always so disappointing at first!  i find that the more times i repeat the splits stretch, though, the further i can get down.  i am pretty close on my right fronts and getting better with left fronts.  i alway make sure to warm up first because i don't want to tear anything.  🙂

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i hate FOX.

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hey!  would love to pole with you.  i only have one pole at my home "studio", though (it's a 50mm SS platinum stages)  there's a good mountain biking place not too far, in the makawao forest, so you might be visiting my area.  i just started a facebook page, called "maui pole fitness."  

there is also a studio (with 2 SS lil mynx poles) on the west shore, in lahaina.  it's called the pole room – there is a website.  i took some classes there when i was first learning.  the instructor is amanda, she is great!  🙂

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yah, i doubt there are any studios in that area.  colebrook is a tiny little town.  my brother moved up there about 5 years ago because it's so inexpensive to live.  but there is nothing there.  the center for circus arts in vermont sounds awesome though!    🙂

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my hubby and i will be driving up there from southern nh (amherst – where HIS son lives) just for one day and one night.   he has never met my dad or my brother, so that will be enough, lol.

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@ kody – what???!!!!  my dad and brother live in colebrook, nh!!  i will be going to visit the end of may.

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thanks so much everyone!  all of your replies were very helpful.  last night i did a relaxing yoga dvd, but it was still hard to go to sleep.  i think that stretching is rejuvenating in alot of ways – i feel refreshed after, rather than exhausted and sleepy from being on the computer or reading.  so maybe i need to spend that last hour before bed doing something that will make me sleepy…  🙂

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hi danielle  https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif   i was in my sweats and already kind of warm, did a little movement around the pole but nothing strenuous.  maybe i just need to do more slow and gentle stretching.  even though it wasn't a workout, i was using energy.  or maybe it was just so different for my body, it didn't know how to respond, lol  🙂

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my stainless pole is still like new.  and slippery as ever, lol.  i don't think stainless decays at all, no matter what.  for a second pole, i'm thinking about a l'il mynx black powder coat…

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my statue also has a couple of small pits/holes and marks from the damp.  i don't live near the ocean, just in a very humid and rainy area.  it seems to be worse when it is cold/damp.  so sorry this happened to you!  i know i would be freaking.