Rachel Osborne
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Oh my goodness! I can not describe how much I love this exquisite video! The dancing is beautiful and the concept so close to my heart – as a child I wanted so much to be a music box Ballerina. The editing makes it magical – thank you for this early Christmas present! 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
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Done day 1! Posted here and will post on Instagram later
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There is a possibility that this is actually a repeat of a big/glitch IG problem that happened in January and again in July this year. It tells you you’ve been locked out for service violation but you have not really. Here’s some news on it:
https://thepreviewapp.com/instagram-deleted-photos-account-disappeared-whats-happening/
In some cases accounts have returned by IG (bear in mind there’s probably a backlog) . Several massive yoga accounts had this happen – and they were just photos not videos.
So try contacting IG and don’t give up!
Re music; I now only dance to YouTube remixes and DJ remixes. I like lyrical 90s house music and chilled or epic dubstep, I like chill out instrumental mixes so this works for me. If I want specific music eg creepy Halloween I search non copyright/no copyright /free to use music with that theme and if I want to dance to a specific artist I try to find a live version not an album version. If in doubt I play the video on my phone whilst enabling Shazam on another device to see if the music is picked up.
Finally, as well as posting my fave videos on SV o have a back up IG account with a different email and I post videos there too. I don’t use it to interact with followers, just to stash stuff that won’t fit on my phone. So if I disappear all isn’t lost.
I hope you and Latin Poler get your accounts back.
I also wish more people would post their videos here.
It’s lovely to see people on here.
And Veena I would be so happy if you would share your dances again! I love your dance and all you do is inspirational 💙â¤ï¸ðŸ’™ -
Oh no I’m so sorry.
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I want a video! Thanks latinpoler! On the subject of hair one of my teachers always said it was really a head toss not hair toss and you could do it beautifully even if you had no hair whatsoever
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You can also get into a cradle/Jamilla . And from that to a bunch of things like Jade, lady planche, nonhands cradle….the problem is that with big moves like Allegra and Jade the pole will slow down which is why I tend to favor tucked up/pulled in moves to keep spin going
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I like to skip flatline and drop straight into scorpio then speed up the spin into a flowet spin
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Thank you so much! It’s good to know I’m not being unnecessarily paranoid! Veena I went and watched your excellent tutorial on Elbowstand and saw you did not teach it with the hands wrapped around the pole . I actually just went and tried a headstand and elbow stand in that position with cup grip of pole base and it felt soooo wrong. I couldn’t stack the hips and float up and it didn’t feel safe.
I can’t do or say anything about how it’s taught in class. Nor can I do anything about Twisted grip handspring and TG Ayesha being taught…the instructor is really good. I don’t think she knows that there is any issue or concern about pole holding or Twisted grip in kickup/pressup inversions. It’s so commonplace in the pole world now… I wouldn’t have known if I wasn’t a member here and if Ididn’t do a lot of yoga reading/classes.🤓
Thanks again and happy inverting everyone 🙃🙃🙃
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Autocorrect changed ‘the stitching frays’ to ‘feats’🤔🙄
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I think Ellie’s feel cheaper, less padded, less roomy, than Pleasers and the straps always break and the stitching feats…I had them for three years then switched to Pleasers and the difference felt like a real upgrade. I found Ellie’s stable but narrow and small to size.
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Latin poler that is very good advice, and true about home poling giving you the power to control how you work out so you can choose to work Lower or upper body or just have an easier day as your body needs it. Thank you and I hope you totally enjoy your vacation !
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Gray eyes so sorry to hear about your injury. That is scary. You hit the nail on the head I think, when you said we don’t like being suddenly limited either by injury or buy a body that is not the same as it was in terms of recovery time than it was in our 20s. It’s very hard not to push and push and pull back gracefully from overdoing it ! I hope that your injury is resolved soon and you can find a way to practice what do you enjoy without pain
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Thanks again everybody so much for your kind words and thoughtful posts. I agree that social media challenges, whilst exciting, can’ be a lot of pressure and yes, even keeping up with my feed is exhausting. I will be visiting family in England for three weeks in July and August so there will be an enforced break from pole and probably from social media as well and I am actually really looking forward to it.
I think Instagram challenges have pushed me very far with both pole and yoga-I have learned so much and I am proud of the fact that I taught myself these things, as I am not able to attend classes at my level at the studio because they happen when I have no childcare. But I’ve burned out several times.
I am trying to take more breaks now and doing shorter challenges and giving myself permission to not do moves or to do an easy option. If the challenge of the day is not right for me, or not right for me on that day that’s ok.
I notice if I take 48 hours complete break from pole the next time I pole I’m much stronger and it is so much more enjoyable. The second day I’m not quite as strong – the third day it’s uncomfortable – and on day 4 almost nothing works – and that is the day I usually get injured.
So I am learning to limit what I do and to supplement what I do with cross training and yoga which is more balancing as it works both sides.
Maybe I will just never ever be able to do certain moves because I am not willing to put the time in – the fear is too strong and the risks are too high and I’m actually not sufficiently motivated to push and push and push myself. I have never really wanted to do an Iron X or Fonji for example. There’s no hunger for it. I like flexy flow on spin. I can continue to explore it without doing terrifying moves with a high risk of injury. I still need to stop beating myself up. Literally. There are days I am so badly bruised that I can’t shave my legs or wear a bra.
I wonder why I drive myself so hard, but pole is my way of dealing with stress. When pole itself becomes stressful it gets messy.
Anyway thank you all again.
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That should read I no longer feel immortal!
Anyway thank you all again so very much. Certainly food for thought. I think I need to slow down a bit and not put so much pressure on myself. I wish I wasn’t on my own all the time training.
Yesterday I did manage to get to an evening yoga arm balance and inversion workshop and it was so cool to be able to try out all these things that I have been doing alone and self-taught with a proper teacher and a group of fellow students. It felt much safer and more gentle.
I envy all the other pole dance students here who don’t have a heavy Instagram presence and don’t need one because they have a happy pole family support system and see each other regularly every week.
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Thank you all so very much everybody for your incredibly kind and wise words. I’m so sorry I am slow in responding to this discussion. I have been thinking a great deal about all that you have said so generously and thoughtfully. There is very much truth in what you say – I am certain of it. Certainly the feeling of invincibility fell away after the first serious fall.
That was well over a year ago, but it shocked me and the reverberations from it still go on. I crash out often but I know how to fall and I’m very rarely hurt. But as the spins for faster, the tricks harder, the sequences longer and the ascent higher – plus I added in habitually wearing high heels – none of it got any easier. And the floor is concrete – the pole is 9.5 feet – the carpet is very thin. It hurts to fall.
I think a lot of it comes down to doing all these pole/yoga challenges on social media and they becoming my main source of training and motivation . I can’t get to a studio much, and the advancedclassrs are at an impossible time for me and have been so for three years so instagram community challenges became my online pole family support system.
Another stressor was that I was always feeling pushed for time. So I was not resting in between attempts to film everything I needed to get done to keep up.
Training when tired because there wasn’t going to be another chance for days and days . Rushing through multiple trick combos because there wasn’t really time to warm up – warm down -,stretch – flow – concentrate – research what I needed to do – and fit it all into an hour. Because I didn’t want to let myself or anyone else down.
When I attend pole classes now – infrequently because I can’t get to them often – I am amazed at how easy it is. I am used to training so much harder . For so much longer . Trying things over and over again .
And finally reminders of mortality. My early menopause, friends getting cancer, I no longer feel him immortal.