Rachel Osborne
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I can’t pick just one! My go-to combo is slow motion splits fan kick into spinning pole climb, dizzy swan at top, invert into V, helicopter spin whilst dropping down pole, finish in splits on floor. Then try not to be sick.
So the good old chopper/v/straddle I guess. If I had to pick one.
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Nom nom paleo, and Marks Daily Apple sites have got some lovely ideas…
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Her other tip was bring knees to elbows….
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I only properly got this last week and it was when my teacher said as Chem said: hips in front of pole not to side. Also look at ceiling.
For some reason it’s easier for me to go to chopper/V first though this is meant to be harder. It is automatic to bring crotch to pole and curl lower abs and pelvis into pole and use legs to tip me back from a V.
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High-fives fellow 40+ polers!
It is great isn’t it?
I never thought I’d be upside down in booty shorts at 43 but so glad I am! -
Whenever my hips hurt its usually because I’m not fully engaging my whole core – not just locking abs in but pulling up pelvic floor, internally zipping up my ‘corset’ – the lower back, the side muscles, everything.
I find locking external core and then thinking about activating my internal core muscles and my glutes – definitely my glutes – seems to make my pelvis more stable and prevents too much force being exerted into hip flexors or pelvic area. I am hypermobile so have really had to put lots of work into learning how to use my core to prevent shoulder and hip injury.
I’m not an expert at all! Just an injury prone old ex dancer! HTH 🙂
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Just posting to be a fan girl!
Thanks for your passion for pole and artistic skill and for many laughs at your spot- on art 🙂 -
So so lovely.
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To be honest I think the best training is the training activity you enjoy most.
Because then you are motivated to actually do it.
I’ve got a weights bench and bar bells etc at home gathering dust because it bored me. Whereas I love dance and yoga and Pilates and can fit in weights into a quick highly efficient full body/body weight resistance/HIIT DVD workout like Jillian Michaels done at home. I know weight training is great but I’m not interested enough to focus on it. Poling does it for me because its weight training plus flexibility plus dance. And I get to whizz about and go upside down as a bonus!
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UnderArmour compression shorts are great. I pull them up a bit if I need extra inner thigh skin grip.
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Thank you very much for the feedback and suggestion. Not tried brass in warm country, only back in UK in winter. It was griptastic then!
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Dominic Lacasse is amazing; grace and strength
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I would say first learn to train safely and enjoyably, as you learn more you will find out what you love and what comes easily vs what’s more challenging. You will also be able to choose the music you like and start to link moves to it. Whatever your natural dance/movement style is, you can find ways to highlight it when moving vertically! I mean, most women I know who take up pole don’t walk into a studio going ‘I want to move exactly like Cleo Hurricane or Jenyne Butterfly, they just want to learn how to do it and as they get more skilled and strong they develop a dance or movement style that is their own.
You might love hip hop and you might get a buzz out of working that style into your work, or yiu might find you enjoy doing awesome strength moves to classical music. Fast spins to techno; whatever
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Trying to do sexy and feeling self-conscious is soul-destroying. Often I don’t feel like being sexy so I concentrate on something else: being very precise, or very strong, or going very slow and holding everything tight with good abdominal control and making all my lines long/having good extension.
Or if feeling angry or sad I just dance in a way that shows that and lets the emotion out.
I think being fully present and emotionally and physically honest during a dance is more sexy than putting on a show of hair flicking and hip rolling if you don’t feel real doing that.
Just be how you are in the moment and dance like nobody’s watching. Do it for you.
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Stupid phone.
Should read ‘misogynists’
And ‘Dakota I heart your work’
🙂