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I know how hard it is to stay consistent and how scary it can be to find hours in your normal day life for training. So i thought i can share some of the things that make it easier for me to train at home and things that helped me to get back on track.
1) Prepare your training outfit from...
I’ve been talking with my friend recently, she has a Pole Dancing competition soon. And It reminded me of my experience many years ago.
It was Pole Art 2012 I think.
I remember I wanted to make a routine with lots of static work. I wanted to prove someone (have no idea who - mostly...
Funny story about this choreography.
I had a long tour with workshops and knew that I will be performing in Bordeaux on the last leg of my tour. And I wanted to create a new piece, something that I haven’t danced with before.
I was on my way to Korea. Sitting in the airplane in my chair I...
If you feel like your warm up is boring - I feel you, I’ve been there and I have a tip for you.
Sometimes the most difficult thing in the whole training is to warm up.
So to make it more fun and exciting for you try this:
Add Movement to every exercise you do.
Add waves, rotations, flow.
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There are some things I can recommend that helped me during my pole journey to be less stressed before and during competitions.
If your performance is fully ready, make sure to run it many many times so you can almost do it with your eyes closed. It will help you to relax and remember all the...
1) Have a plan.
Couple of hours or days before your training start looking online for an inspiration. It can be anything. We all take inspo from different things.
Some people watch ballet and they try to copy their moves onto the pole. Some do yoga and try to incorporate it in their...
So we all have been there when we stay in front of the pole and don’t know what to do. Or we look at the pole tricks and think: everything was already created. We can’t do anything new.
Well on one hand it is true, everything new is forgotten old.
But still in any situation we...
Let’s talk warm up
Always do your warm up. You can switch it now and then, make some changes or keep the same one - but you ALWAYS ALWAYS do it.
Lots of injuries we all have had were because we didn’t do enough warm up movements or didn’t do it at all.
I’ve got one injury...
I know it sounds weird but that can be true.
Notice when you train what you say to yourself when you stretch. Do you say - “oh no, that’s not for me”,
“I can’t do it” or maybe “I’m not flexible” or “Yeah, well that’s...
Pole dance is a challenging and rewarding form of fitness. It requires strength, flexibility, and balance. For those looking to take their pole dancing to the next level, adding yoga to their practice can be a great way to do so. Yoga can help to improve your flexibility and balance, as well as...