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  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 16, 2014 at 7:44 pm in reply to: Anyone up for doing Veena’s 30 day programme?

    Dustbunny you STAR! How awesome are you!
    Bloody well done madam!

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 16, 2014 at 4:32 pm in reply to: Millie Robson Photoshoot – do I do it? Help!

    I posted the wrong shot!
    This is the headless one!

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 16, 2014 at 4:15 pm in reply to: Millie Robson Photoshoot – do I do it? Help!

    Also think about angles – if you’re not straight side on to the pole for example, some poses will have your arms or legs foreshortened, or even cut off your head! A photographer who knows the poses will watch for this but if you mount the pole at the wrong angle you will have to get off and start again! (On static)

    see this plank in which I am the headless pole dancer lol? If I’d been straight side on it would have worked!

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 16, 2014 at 4:07 pm in reply to: Millie Robson Photoshoot – do I do it? Help!

    How about looking through the Veena gallery for things you can do, then double checking the moves on Pinterest and google images for alternative angles, different lighting etc.

    It’s amazing how something like an elbow stand leaning against pole looks quite different silhouetted, different again in heels, with one leg bent, or how a simple plank looks amazing with toes pointed hard, dead straight legs, chest lifted and head thrown back. Using a fan or wind machine or going black/white adds drama.

    Veena gallery https://www.studioveena.com/galleries

    Poses that you can hold in full extension, pointing toes, breathing normally, with lines that extend out to the sides/ corners of the pic tend to work better than ones you’re struggling to hold and can’t extend in.

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 15, 2014 at 8:54 pm in reply to: Meat Hook – Why are you so HARD?!

    Thank you for the fantastic video!!!

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 15, 2014 at 8:47 pm in reply to: Anyone up for doing Veena’s 30 day programme?

    Day 20 here, should be done by Halloween. Well done everyone!

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 14, 2014 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Facebook Is Against Positive Body Image

    I saw that advertorial and was really moved and impressed by it. It’s the flipping opposite if all those ‘secrets of amazing abs’ nonsense that pops up everywhere; have the clowns at FB actually looked at it???

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 14, 2014 at 1:57 pm in reply to: Getting Allegra into a spinny pole routine…

    Spinning chopper to quick flatline Scorpio then allegra
    Or just allegra from spinning chopper…

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 14, 2014 at 1:55 pm in reply to: Getting Allegra into a spinny pole routine…
  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 13, 2014 at 9:36 am in reply to: Pole Silks

    The pic is of the class this weekend, trying silks for first time at anytime fitness, Cayman, taught by Quinn, and from the Pole Fitness Grabd Cayman public Facebook page.

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 13, 2014 at 7:51 am in reply to: Pole Silks

    I have had one lesson only! My initial feedback is that they’re huge fun but by no means for beginners. You need not only serious forearm strength and shoulder girdle/core control but also confidence and innate pre-learned awareness of how to control your body moving around/climbing/inverting/pushing/pulling against the pole, and to be able to handle spin pole without difficulty.

    So a new exciting complement to pole skills but not a spotter replacement, short cut or beginner activity. That’s just my opinion though and I’m an absolute beginner at pole silks! (Pole level: intermediate-advanced dancer)

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 11, 2014 at 6:00 am in reply to: pole combos

    Lol that’s funny

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 10, 2014 at 9:13 pm in reply to: Pool and pole

    Just amazing.
    Is it a silicone pole? I see she’s wearing a bodysuit…

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 10, 2014 at 7:15 pm in reply to: Anyone up for doing Veena’s 30 day programme?

    Lol. Booty scoot is such a cute name. It has a far ruder name as well, heh heh.
    I agree, shoulder presses are KILLAH.
    So effective though.
    🙂

  • Rachel Osborne

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    October 10, 2014 at 6:07 am in reply to: pole combos

    Aerial V, gemini, pike, jade, hip hold reverse V, Scorpio or Gemini (or switches down pole) until I can handstand out.
    Now appearing in every single freestyle I do, ever, lol.

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