Slacker Alert!

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aerial drop, aerial silk, pencil drop, ramblings

It’s the start of 2014 and I’ve been slacking my ass off. Work is too hectic for me to make time to lunch time pole practices and I only signed up for 1 pole class and 1 exotic class this term.

I have signed up for Aerial Silk and a new class called Pole Silk this term, but pole time has been getting lesser and lesser. It’s not helping that I’m getting more and more afraid to do drops on silk, and I always try to find excuse to skip my turn during lessons. In the end, I have no choice but to try each drop once, when all my classmates attempted the drops at least 4-5 times. 😦

On top of that, Instructor N and I were trying so hard to find time for private lessons and it was not easy given all the festive seasons in the beginning of the year.

Now that Chinese New Year is coming to an end, I have no more excuses to slack on my work out. I shall try my best to get my ass moving on my work out schedules, and that includes aerial silk, pole and yoga.

*DETERMINED!*

 

My 1st Salto Drop!!!

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aerial silk, motivated, salto drop, scary

Finally!! I’ve decided to let go… of my hand!

This is my 1st attempt to try this drop, and boy, it’s scary!! Maybe I need to try the drop a few more times to overcome the fear.

When I look at the video, there are several things I will need to take note next time, like not to overturn when dropping down (which I think it’s beyond my control since gravity is doing all the work), pointing my toes while doing while doing the preparation work.. etc. But HELL! I just did the drop and I’m just glad I’m still in one piece. Haha!

We did a bird pose, or I call it the superman on silk pose. Next week will be doing more drops! Hopefully I will look prettier in my Salto drop next week! 😀

“Dry Hands” – Good Or Bad?

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aerial silk, dry hands

I have sweaty palms, and I hate it cause everytime I have to wipe my hands on my pants when doing pole or silk. Back then, I was told not to rely on this, and shaving foam. But now, I use it all the time before I climb.

But today, during aerial silk class at Gymkraft, I forgot to bring my “Dry Hands”, I kept slipping down! It was so bad, I couldn’t do all of the tricks and drops. To make things worse, today was the last intermediate class, and I wasn’t confident to do any of the tricks, which made me decide to retake intermediate class again. Made me quite demoralized actually.

It made me realize one thing: am I relying too much on Dry Hands? Now that I can’t do the tricks without it, even though I can do it last time without applying it? But I guess there’s no turning back. I’ll just continue applying them when I’m taking my silk and pole lessons… till the day I die…. *shudder*

And Here I Go…

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aerial hoop, aerial silk, dance, pole

Decided to create a blog after reading several blogs for the past few days regarding their progression in pole dance.
I used to blog… that was more than 10 years ago (OMG!). It was more like a diary, talking about my life, pen down my thoughts. It was the era where anybody and everybody was blogging. There I get to know some blog friends. We call ourselves the Xangals (haha!). We went out, gossiped about other bloggers, and became very good friends – till now.
Then, Facebook was invented, and took away all my personal computer time. I stopped blogging. All of us stopped.
I miss blogging. So now I’m going to create this blog, to talk about my addictions. It might change from time to time. But right now, it will be pole and aerial dance.

A little background
I learned aerial hoop at Groove. Completed level 9 (that was the last level they have), and I’m still pondering if i should take up aerial hoop in Acro Polates. I love hoop. But now, I don’t think I have time for hoop, coz I’m addicted to pole.
I never thought I will be addicted to pole. I always prefer aerial to pole. But looking at the girls dance in heels so elegantly and doing all those impossible stunts, makes me want to dance just like them.
Pole is definitely a more painful dance compared to aerial – at least to me. But I just can’t help it – checking out different dance routines in YouTube, surfing for pole wear, looking at stripper shoes, looking at how other girls able to do the stunts that you can’t master, read blogs written by other pole dancers. It’s really addictive!
In order to make this addiction stay, I shall pen down my progression, my thoughts, and also links to whatever I can find in the Internet world!