Funny how people used to say: When God closes a door, He opens a window? Yeah, God is good. In the midst of my despair, about half a year after I left the only little studio here where I had my latin/ballroom/new vogue social classes (that alone is a long story); He opened a window for me --- pole-dancing.
I know you might laugh. I remember how back in Malaysia, everyone has this impression that pole-dance = stripper = hooker. I had always begged to differ, though I never really had the courage to take it up back in those days. But back then I had my Latin, and it was always enough for me. But no, unlike most of my studio-mates I was never that skeptical about pole dancing, I've always seen it as an art, just like any other dance. And it was my first pole lesson that I came to realize that it is that, and more.
I remember when I was 17, I went for my first Latin dance class. It was Cha Cha. And I fell in love with it right from the first chasse.
I was brought back to that memory when my pole instructor, Jamie taught us the first spin, The Fireman. I was glad, so pleasantly surprised that I found myself in love with this new dance, just the way I did 6 years
And now it is week 5 since that first faithful lesson. And I just have to say, I love it even more. How on earth could I have not discovered this dance right from the first day I am here in Tassie? Why oh why did I wait almost 2 years before I started?
I should've trained harder too in the past years. Now I have pathetic upper body strength, and since it is a pre-requisite for pole dancing, I am pretty much struggling whenever it comes to holding body weight up on the pole (eg: the V grip, The Pencil, Pixie Up etc). Gotta train hard starting from now! At least get strong enough to do men push-ups (okay don't laugh but I can never do men push-ups, only the girly ones)...
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So new checklist:
- 20 push-ups per day (increase by 5 every day & hopefully convert to men's push up in time)
- 3 minute planking (increase by 15 secs per day)
- Weights (start with 5kgs, at least 10 reps for each muscle group)
- Work on my handstand
- Practice the V grip and master it for all my spins
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| The V Grip for The Fireman |
- Work on my Butterfly Spin and some other variations (I forgot their names)
- Work on The Pencil and Pencil Spin
- Perfect my Seat, Crucifix and Extended Seat variations
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| The Seat |
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| Extended Seat - variations |
- Learn the Wrist Seat!!!
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| One day that'll be me! |
That should be enough for now. Till the next lesson where I'll have to add The Cradle to my list...
Gotta work those barely-existing muscles!!! *feeling motivated*
Spinning off,
Christine
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