Rachel Osborne
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Gosh it’s getting hardcore.
The leg lifts are killer, couldn’t manage 35 without stopping today. -
Ps: check the Veena lap and floor lessons and transitions 🙂
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Have you had a look at the many excellent videos people here posted for the UPA a Bringing Sexy Back challenge in July?
There were threads on it too: other than that what do you find sexy about other dancers and about yourself?
I found it hard to do – so hard – so I researched and watched loads of vids and read threads and here are my notes:
Go where your instincts take you – if you have a glorious roundness in the ass think about showing it off with slow circles, lying on your tummy and letting your butt rise and fall then pull you up, as you push back and up and toss your hair. Then kneel., knees apart and clench each butt cheek one at a time…
Or if your hips and belly are all woman, stand, stroke the pole while you draw figure 8s and bend your knees and roll your hips…
Or lie down on your back, propped on your elbows and raise your legs pointing your toes, knees together like you have a coin clamped between them, and draw slow circles with your feet – teasing – then open into V.
Do it all slowly with conviction and eye contact.
Do it for pleasure and fun just because it pleases you!
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There are LOADS of intermediate advanced combos and ideas hiding in the ‘routines and combos’ section – I only found them yesterday because I thought that was a section just for work outs! If you keep scrolling there’s all sorts of stuff (thanks Veena for telling me about it when I was moaning that I always end up free styling the same stuff)
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Lucca speaks truth and that talk is awesome.
I am only just starting to learn to let go but my top tips are:
Slow. If on spin hold each shape for 2x round the pole full revolution. If on static try to float up and down out of the spin in slow motion.Extend: Point toes and fully extend as if you are drawing lines with finger tips and toes and sprinkling glitter trails or smoke vapour from your fingers and toes and the ends of your hair.
Close your eyes, dim the lights, exhale and smile, move through the whole of the movement as if a photographer is taking a fast-shutter series of photos and wants to catch your glorious shape in each still frame.
Turn the music up and forget the tricks for the song before you focus: roll on the floor, shake your hair, draw line shapes with your legs and circles with your hips, keep it simple and tap into the real emotions you feel rather than playing at classic ‘sexy’.
Slow controlled frustration is sexy.
Angry, strong is sexy.
Tired, loose, careless is sexy.
Experimental playful is sexy.Just be how you are.
And if you feel foolish, adopt a persona. You are a runaway heiress secretly auditioning for a burlesque troupe, or an undercover FBI agent trying to seduce a mob boss, or whatever you like. Nobody is scoring you. Just entertain yourself 😉
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No not firebird either. Sorry, don’t know name but it’s very pretty
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You’re right I am wrong it’s not a Poisson.
I have seen it though, maybe it was called Firebird? Will try and look to check. -
Looks like The Poisson/Russian Fish?
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Yay welcome to the bad ass upside down no apologies for me booty short high heels and might kick younger non poling ladies ass very nicely club 🙂
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You need dancer foot thongs!
See dance sites or amazon
http://www.dancedirect.com/uk/Category/Footwear/Foot-Thongs-Misc/
Bloch is a good brand. -
August is always a dull time to work on the news desk 😉
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Thinking of baby Scarlett and family xo
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~Flicks coins at Allyson’ and Phoenix’s abs~
Damn, look at them bounce right off 😀 -
Allyson gets a special prize then 😀
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Blimey so you are clearly some kind of twisting ab hardcore machine because I’m counting left=1, right =2….
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