I started yoga at 39 and you’d be surprised if you stop having expectations and just go with the flow. I turn 41 in April and almost have my very first drop back since I was 19, mind you the only thing flexi I could do as a kid was drop backs. I also have my front left and right splits. Took 19 months for my right and 2 inches till touchdown with my left. With 2 inches left though we are talking working in over splits to get flat. So yes it’s all possible with consistency!!!
Thank you!! I need to revisit bc I didn’t drop my booty enough in poison. My hands got an infection and the swelling is off the charts. I probably shouldn’t have poled this day but wanted to specifically try this transition before I forgot. But now I’m resting my hand and taking antibiotics. So once I’m better going to clean my lines up a bit.
I never saw it either but it was floating around my TikTok from a few of my pole gals. Knew I had to try since I love poison and love brass monkey. So what a pretty transition. Definitely give it a go but remember that knee hooks tricky by the hand. Just got to go slightly higher or lower than that hand. I was more successful with higher but I saw people find success with lower too. Just need to find what works best for you.
Actually it looks scary but that satellite grip isn’t as scary as it looks. Elbow grips are way more secure than hand grips. I just taught my girl this over zoom who for over a year I kept telling her I thought she could do it and she insisted she couldn’t bc she has no back flexibility and can’t do bridges. Well she nailed this grip yesterday to train her reverse ayesha and said Kim you were right I should’ve tried this a long time ago. It’s super secure grip when in it. It definitely is one of the safest grips when inverted facing away from the pole.
I am approaching my 3rd year anniversary in a month and reddit is where I found my friendly pole home when I downright sucked. The support here was amazing and still is. TikTok people were cruel in those beginning days… so harshly cruel that I had to set my comments to approve so when I looked back on my progress I wasn’t reminded when I was in a dark place and people treated me that way. I literally thought of not existing in those moments. Pole saved me. Still saves me today actually!! My ig is @tastingmyfuturetilton feel free to follow. I love to follow and support back!
I couldn’t bend over and touch my toes when I started. Took me 3 months to climb the thing. 3rd year anniversary rolling up and I’m doing things I watched others do in videos and I would say I’m never going to do that. No dance, sports, gym nothing background to start. Shit took me 2 years to do my right front split and left I’m 2in from touch down. You can be at any skill level and start the only requirement is the want to love yourself more than you do in this very moment… bc that’s what pole does… finds your power!!!
This was so amazing, well done!! I am nowhere near trying Lux yet, I'm still trying to get my Marley and Tulip 😂 Beautiful pole outfit, by the way!💗✨️🔥
I hope that emoji isn’t a chuckle at you learning marley and tulip. Those are difficult shapes depending on skill level. All shapes are difficult depending on skill level actually. The way we improve our skills is by learning those new shapes. I remember doing my first tulip for some instagram contest and the thought of opening my knees only using my elbows to hold the pole frightened me so very much!! These things are all scary until they aren’t and guess what… some no matter how much you do them and “perfect” them still remain scary. We are playing on a vertical pole against the laws of gravity. So there’s nothing funny about you learning any new shapes. You’re doing amazing and you will get those shape’s eventually. Trust the skills you’ve gained a bit more. Sometimes I feel like that’s where I lack. To trust the skills I’ve built to get me to the next step. You’re going to marley and you will tulip and they will be beautiful!!
Thank you so much for your encouragement and support!🥰🥰 You are right, learning new shapes is no laughing matter! I should stop denigrating myself and underestimating my achievements. I definitely needed to hear this today. You always say the wisest, most sensible things! I am so lucky to have you as my pole friend and role model, I mean it! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!! I’m lucky to have you too. I speak from experience as well. There was a time I thought my capabilities weren’t nearly what I managed to achieve today. What I always tell those who roll “I can’t…” or “I’m discouraged about…” in their minds there is no such thing as a bad practice. By now your pole experience has shown you things don’t happen overnight and that some thing need building blocks. If you’re struggling with marley see if this helps… jasmine is a great beginner entry to marley and can be done safely low to the floor. So enter your jasmine from floor entry. Keep the bottom arm strong and pushing yourself up. Take your top hand and grab the top foot (the hooked knees foot). To hold marley you need to fully engage that top leg. Some people aren’t sure what engagement is so if you’re not sure. Imagine someone says let me see your muscles so you bold your muscles up in your body by tightening them, that’s engagement. What holds you handless in your marley is keeping that top leg fully tightened (engaged) while you hold the foot. The bottom leg in your jasmine, the bottom leg, push that towards the floor and bend the knee. If at first you don’t feel safe grabbing both feet work on the top first. Just make sure the front of the bottom thigh is touching the pole. You can keep the bottom arm (I call it a kickstand arm) there until your absolutely sure you trust the engagement of that top leg so much so you can hang from it. But the calf muscle and back of the quad should be so engaged it squeezes that pole between the two. Dangerous bird is this same element of the top leg except bottom legs in front of the pole. That top leg engagement is what’s the most important in those 2 shapes. Squeeze that pole so tight between your calf and back of your quad. Act like it’s only that part of your body saving your life from a major fall. Hopefully this helps. Next time I’m on pole though, my left hands a bit swollen rn so need a few days, I’m going to make a tutorial and see if I can send it through the text on this app to you. Hopefully verbal and visual pointers will help… if you don’t mind the tutorial that is. But you’ll get it. We all work on things thinking it may never happen till it happens. Then we’re so happy we never gave up hope or trying!!! That’s the best feeling about this sport. The hard work and failures till 💥 success!!
You have to place the bottom arm not too low, because then you'll fall (tested it a few times on myself😅) and don't let go of your upper arm until you're in janeiro (and check if you have the right grip int he upper arm). And if you do it on spin, be careful to spin in the right direction. Hope this will help you a bit 🩵
Ok I saved this video and I’m going to try this and see if hopefully I can get a new, nicer janerio entry. Thank you for your help. I appreciate it a bunch!!
Thank you. I guess I’m already in the right direction then. I practice yoga both active and passive stretches and of course strengthening to support the flexibility. But my whole body was so tight when I started pole then yoga. So now it’s just time that’s all. Again thank you for the response.
This recently happened to me due to depression unfortunately. I lost my way but one thing that helped was stopped trying to over achieve goals and just dance and enjoying the pole shapes I know helped me love the sport. Focus on improving basic combos and the basics in general. Now I’m finally training new things again or revisiting things I lost and taking my time with it. It has made all the difference.
So beautiful!! I’m trying to get mine back but for some reason the second time around seems harder than the first and I have way more shoulder, hip, and hamstring flexibility. So I’m thinking it’s the drive for it I’m lacking. Hopefully soon I can do it again. Such a pretty shape!!
I love this!! I know so many people that struggle to get a good knee hook. I’ve tried explaining that it’s about grabbing with that pit and pointing those toes down. Even outside leg hang is a perfect example of this. If someone grabs with that pit but toes aren’t towards the floor it’s not as strong as a hold as when toes are hard at that floor. I wish more people who struggle with knee put holds could see this.
Thank you!! I know I’m farthest from the most flexible person on this planet but I’m really proud of how far I’ve come. I literally couldn’t bend over to touch my toes when I started, couldn’t weave my body under my arm in vomitron, or keep my legs straight in just straight leg shapes forget splits. Flexibility is so hard for people bc the result take such a long time to see so consistency is hard to keep bc of discouragement. I just kept at it even when I thought absolutely nothing was happening or when I wasn’t even sure I was training it correctly. I’m so glad I did bc it really does open doors you don’t think you can access when your body is incredibly tight. So I appreciate this comment so very much!!
Love the devils elbow exit from ballerina!!! Not sure I could do that but always need ideas for ballerina exit besides sad girl lol. Very beautiful flow as always!!
Well I gotta say, I think it’s my new favorite split move! Might inspire me to work on my shoulders… (not sure when I can fit that in…🤪) I just watched it again. So beautiful! 🥰🥰
Instead of a standard warmup when I get on my pole I use yoga as my warmup. This is how I squeeze the time in for my shoulder opening, hip opening, and splits work. I found I can utilize the time better doing this then doing arm circles and running in place. The way I was taught to warmup when I started my pole journey. I only do a little of each with each warmup but a little goes a long way over the course of time. But it did take me a while to get a routine down that worked as good as it does. But once I did my whole body benefited from it in terms of gaining flexibility and mobility back. Unfortunately I’m no longer a spring chicken and my body was so incredibly tight and immobile when I started about 3 years ago and I didn’t even realize how bad of shape I was in until I really started using my body in this way.
Do you have a go to yoga routine? I’d love to do this as my warm up. I spend 20 mins warming up (the usual go to stuff), I’m sure I could use that time better! Would love to get more flexible. Thought at my age (58 in a couple weeks) that was impossible. Yet I have a super flat pan cake and my jade is nothing to complain about after a year of stretching. Proof you are never too old to do anything!!!
No you are not. I got my full right front split at 40 and I’m super close with my left but my left hip flexor needs more stretching and quad needs more strength. In terms of a yoga routine I never have been to an actual yoga class so I’m sure my alignment in a lot of what I do is off but here’s what I found. You just do the poses the best you can just you would any yoga class. With each practice try to go a bit deeper. Lizard pose is a great example for this. On your phone search lizard pose for beginners if you don’t know what it is. In words it’s a low lunge with your torso aligned with your front legs quad. Your torso starts as high as your quad is in that lunge position, unless going deeper (which would be bringing your chest towards the floor). You also want that leg as close to your body as you can get at first for hip opening. You can also keep your torso upright and use your arm to push the knee away from you to get a pigeon pose leg variation of it. So in other words I learn a pose and then feel how I can go deeper into it. But in order to keep my whole body getting flexible as a whole I will break it up into days like the way people do at the gym. I, of course, use yoga to warm up my entire body but I make one day a leg focus. So do deeper leg poses (hamstrings, quads). One day a deeper hip focus (hip openers). Then, back. Then shoulders. So although I use yoga to warm up my body as a whole I have a focus for that warmup to go hard on to go deeper in those poses to gain that next progression of flexibility of that body part. Hopefully this all makes sense and hopefully it’s helpful. But I found by warming up my whole body with movement but having a focal point for the day I don’t get overwhelmed by to much at once. Also, it allows one part of me to rest while I go hard on something else on my nonrest days. You get more out of your stretching when you don’t keep doing the same parts over and over every day. Bc the same as strength building with flexibility your body needs that recovery period too.
If you’re putting in a tension pole the space of the room doesn’t mean a thing. It depends on where your ceiling beam is. Mine isn’t in the center of my room but my rooms pretty big. But if there’s two beams you can put a thick piece of plywood between them and mount it that way to get it more center if your joist isn’t center of the room. Or stage pole. So just be sure you check where the ceiling beam is before you mount a tension pole.
Remember in iron x, I don’t have mine but I can say I have a keen eye to some shapes bc I learn by watching so many others, the key is that bottom arm. Just like in ayesha top arm engaged means bent. Engage that bottom arm by pushing off that pole with all your might. This usually creates a bend in that bottom elbow. Then really pull with that top arm just as much this creates that body “X” float shape in the middle. I don’t have all the secrets to iron x but I do know that strong push with that bottom arm is key to gaining strength here to hold you. But your ayesha is strong and a strong ayesha is a great start!!!
I started yoga at 39 and you’d be surprised if you stop having expectations and just go with the flow. I turn 41 in April and almost have my very first drop back since I was 19, mind you the only thing flexi I could do as a kid was drop backs. I also have my front left and right splits. Took 19 months for my right and 2 inches till touchdown with my left. With 2 inches left though we are talking working in over splits to get flat. So yes it’s all possible with consistency!!!
*36 months to get get my left
This is amazing!! Beautifully done!🥰🔥🥰🔥
Thank you!! I need to revisit bc I didn’t drop my booty enough in poison. My hands got an infection and the swelling is off the charts. I probably shouldn’t have poled this day but wanted to specifically try this transition before I forgot. But now I’m resting my hand and taking antibiotics. So once I’m better going to clean my lines up a bit.
So cooool🤩 I have never seen that one. I have to try it out😁
I never saw it either but it was floating around my TikTok from a few of my pole gals. Knew I had to try since I love poison and love brass monkey. So what a pretty transition. Definitely give it a go but remember that knee hooks tricky by the hand. Just got to go slightly higher or lower than that hand. I was more successful with higher but I saw people find success with lower too. Just need to find what works best for you.
Beautiful!!🔥🥰💗✨️
Thank you!! This has been a goal shape of mine since I started pole. Certainly a tricky one but such a pretty one!!
Congratulations on achieving a new shape!! So cool! It looks amazing and... so scary! 🥰🔥💪💙
Actually it looks scary but that satellite grip isn’t as scary as it looks. Elbow grips are way more secure than hand grips. I just taught my girl this over zoom who for over a year I kept telling her I thought she could do it and she insisted she couldn’t bc she has no back flexibility and can’t do bridges. Well she nailed this grip yesterday to train her reverse ayesha and said Kim you were right I should’ve tried this a long time ago. It’s super secure grip when in it. It definitely is one of the safest grips when inverted facing away from the pole.
Love this!!
Thank you my ayesha girl!! You on Ayesha kicks rn so I think you should try this next… just say’n!
I am approaching my 3rd year anniversary in a month and reddit is where I found my friendly pole home when I downright sucked. The support here was amazing and still is. TikTok people were cruel in those beginning days… so harshly cruel that I had to set my comments to approve so when I looked back on my progress I wasn’t reminded when I was in a dark place and people treated me that way. I literally thought of not existing in those moments. Pole saved me. Still saves me today actually!! My ig is @tastingmyfuturetilton feel free to follow. I love to follow and support back!
I couldn’t bend over and touch my toes when I started. Took me 3 months to climb the thing. 3rd year anniversary rolling up and I’m doing things I watched others do in videos and I would say I’m never going to do that. No dance, sports, gym nothing background to start. Shit took me 2 years to do my right front split and left I’m 2in from touch down. You can be at any skill level and start the only requirement is the want to love yourself more than you do in this very moment… bc that’s what pole does… finds your power!!!
This was so amazing, well done!! I am nowhere near trying Lux yet, I'm still trying to get my Marley and Tulip 😂 Beautiful pole outfit, by the way!💗✨️🔥
I hope that emoji isn’t a chuckle at you learning marley and tulip. Those are difficult shapes depending on skill level. All shapes are difficult depending on skill level actually. The way we improve our skills is by learning those new shapes. I remember doing my first tulip for some instagram contest and the thought of opening my knees only using my elbows to hold the pole frightened me so very much!! These things are all scary until they aren’t and guess what… some no matter how much you do them and “perfect” them still remain scary. We are playing on a vertical pole against the laws of gravity. So there’s nothing funny about you learning any new shapes. You’re doing amazing and you will get those shape’s eventually. Trust the skills you’ve gained a bit more. Sometimes I feel like that’s where I lack. To trust the skills I’ve built to get me to the next step. You’re going to marley and you will tulip and they will be beautiful!!
Thank you so much for your encouragement and support!🥰🥰 You are right, learning new shapes is no laughing matter! I should stop denigrating myself and underestimating my achievements. I definitely needed to hear this today. You always say the wisest, most sensible things! I am so lucky to have you as my pole friend and role model, I mean it! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!! I’m lucky to have you too. I speak from experience as well. There was a time I thought my capabilities weren’t nearly what I managed to achieve today. What I always tell those who roll “I can’t…” or “I’m discouraged about…” in their minds there is no such thing as a bad practice. By now your pole experience has shown you things don’t happen overnight and that some thing need building blocks. If you’re struggling with marley see if this helps… jasmine is a great beginner entry to marley and can be done safely low to the floor. So enter your jasmine from floor entry. Keep the bottom arm strong and pushing yourself up. Take your top hand and grab the top foot (the hooked knees foot). To hold marley you need to fully engage that top leg. Some people aren’t sure what engagement is so if you’re not sure. Imagine someone says let me see your muscles so you bold your muscles up in your body by tightening them, that’s engagement. What holds you handless in your marley is keeping that top leg fully tightened (engaged) while you hold the foot. The bottom leg in your jasmine, the bottom leg, push that towards the floor and bend the knee. If at first you don’t feel safe grabbing both feet work on the top first. Just make sure the front of the bottom thigh is touching the pole. You can keep the bottom arm (I call it a kickstand arm) there until your absolutely sure you trust the engagement of that top leg so much so you can hang from it. But the calf muscle and back of the quad should be so engaged it squeezes that pole between the two. Dangerous bird is this same element of the top leg except bottom legs in front of the pole. That top leg engagement is what’s the most important in those 2 shapes. Squeeze that pole so tight between your calf and back of your quad. Act like it’s only that part of your body saving your life from a major fall. Hopefully this helps. Next time I’m on pole though, my left hands a bit swollen rn so need a few days, I’m going to make a tutorial and see if I can send it through the text on this app to you. Hopefully verbal and visual pointers will help… if you don’t mind the tutorial that is. But you’ll get it. We all work on things thinking it may never happen till it happens. Then we’re so happy we never gave up hope or trying!!! That’s the best feeling about this sport. The hard work and failures till 💥 success!!
I tried it few months ago and it seemed impossible, but here we are😄 I believe you'll get it soon, too❤️
Any tips you found helpful for getting this entry? I would appreciate anything you found helpful. Again this is so amazing!!
You have to place the bottom arm not too low, because then you'll fall (tested it a few times on myself😅) and don't let go of your upper arm until you're in janeiro (and check if you have the right grip int he upper arm). And if you do it on spin, be careful to spin in the right direction. Hope this will help you a bit 🩵
Ok I saved this video and I’m going to try this and see if hopefully I can get a new, nicer janerio entry. Thank you for your help. I appreciate it a bunch!!
Love this!! I’m working on retraining my bop as well. So I’m on this journey with you atm!!
I wish I could lift my leg straddle like that. So beautiful!! Any tips for strengthening to get there?? Would love to do that myself one day.
Yeah, hips opening exercises and active stretching🙂
Thank you. I guess I’m already in the right direction then. I practice yoga both active and passive stretches and of course strengthening to support the flexibility. But my whole body was so tight when I started pole then yoga. So now it’s just time that’s all. Again thank you for the response.
This recently happened to me due to depression unfortunately. I lost my way but one thing that helped was stopped trying to over achieve goals and just dance and enjoying the pole shapes I know helped me love the sport. Focus on improving basic combos and the basics in general. Now I’m finally training new things again or revisiting things I lost and taking my time with it. It has made all the difference.
So beautiful!! I’m trying to get mine back but for some reason the second time around seems harder than the first and I have way more shoulder, hip, and hamstring flexibility. So I’m thinking it’s the drive for it I’m lacking. Hopefully soon I can do it again. Such a pretty shape!!
Allegra to allegra split one of my most favorite transitions… so pretty!!
I love this!! I know so many people that struggle to get a good knee hook. I’ve tried explaining that it’s about grabbing with that pit and pointing those toes down. Even outside leg hang is a perfect example of this. If someone grabs with that pit but toes aren’t towards the floor it’s not as strong as a hold as when toes are hard at that floor. I wish more people who struggle with knee put holds could see this.
Yessss flexyyyy queennnnn 🥰🥰👸💕💕
Thank you!! I know I’m farthest from the most flexible person on this planet but I’m really proud of how far I’ve come. I literally couldn’t bend over to touch my toes when I started, couldn’t weave my body under my arm in vomitron, or keep my legs straight in just straight leg shapes forget splits. Flexibility is so hard for people bc the result take such a long time to see so consistency is hard to keep bc of discouragement. I just kept at it even when I thought absolutely nothing was happening or when I wasn’t even sure I was training it correctly. I’m so glad I did bc it really does open doors you don’t think you can access when your body is incredibly tight. So I appreciate this comment so very much!!
I felt this right through my soul! 🥲❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!!
You are so strong and graceful! Thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you for this!!
You did it, girl!!! And it looks beautiful!! You are amazing!!! That looks incredibly hard!! I admire your hard work and perseverance so much!!!💗🥰🔥💪✨️
Thank you and I admire your hard work too!! Love your progress always!!
Hell yeah!!!! One of my favorites!!!!! Outstanding work 💥💞🙃
Thank you I really love this one too!!
Love the devils elbow exit from ballerina!!! Not sure I could do that but always need ideas for ballerina exit besides sad girl lol. Very beautiful flow as always!!
Well I gotta say, I think it’s my new favorite split move! Might inspire me to work on my shoulders… (not sure when I can fit that in…🤪) I just watched it again. So beautiful! 🥰🥰
Instead of a standard warmup when I get on my pole I use yoga as my warmup. This is how I squeeze the time in for my shoulder opening, hip opening, and splits work. I found I can utilize the time better doing this then doing arm circles and running in place. The way I was taught to warmup when I started my pole journey. I only do a little of each with each warmup but a little goes a long way over the course of time. But it did take me a while to get a routine down that worked as good as it does. But once I did my whole body benefited from it in terms of gaining flexibility and mobility back. Unfortunately I’m no longer a spring chicken and my body was so incredibly tight and immobile when I started about 3 years ago and I didn’t even realize how bad of shape I was in until I really started using my body in this way.
Do you have a go to yoga routine? I’d love to do this as my warm up. I spend 20 mins warming up (the usual go to stuff), I’m sure I could use that time better! Would love to get more flexible. Thought at my age (58 in a couple weeks) that was impossible. Yet I have a super flat pan cake and my jade is nothing to complain about after a year of stretching. Proof you are never too old to do anything!!!
No you are not. I got my full right front split at 40 and I’m super close with my left but my left hip flexor needs more stretching and quad needs more strength. In terms of a yoga routine I never have been to an actual yoga class so I’m sure my alignment in a lot of what I do is off but here’s what I found. You just do the poses the best you can just you would any yoga class. With each practice try to go a bit deeper. Lizard pose is a great example for this. On your phone search lizard pose for beginners if you don’t know what it is. In words it’s a low lunge with your torso aligned with your front legs quad. Your torso starts as high as your quad is in that lunge position, unless going deeper (which would be bringing your chest towards the floor). You also want that leg as close to your body as you can get at first for hip opening. You can also keep your torso upright and use your arm to push the knee away from you to get a pigeon pose leg variation of it. So in other words I learn a pose and then feel how I can go deeper into it. But in order to keep my whole body getting flexible as a whole I will break it up into days like the way people do at the gym. I, of course, use yoga to warm up my entire body but I make one day a leg focus. So do deeper leg poses (hamstrings, quads). One day a deeper hip focus (hip openers). Then, back. Then shoulders. So although I use yoga to warm up my body as a whole I have a focus for that warmup to go hard on to go deeper in those poses to gain that next progression of flexibility of that body part. Hopefully this all makes sense and hopefully it’s helpful. But I found by warming up my whole body with movement but having a focal point for the day I don’t get overwhelmed by to much at once. Also, it allows one part of me to rest while I go hard on something else on my nonrest days. You get more out of your stretching when you don’t keep doing the same parts over and over every day. Bc the same as strength building with flexibility your body needs that recovery period too.
If you’re putting in a tension pole the space of the room doesn’t mean a thing. It depends on where your ceiling beam is. Mine isn’t in the center of my room but my rooms pretty big. But if there’s two beams you can put a thick piece of plywood between them and mount it that way to get it more center if your joist isn’t center of the room. Or stage pole. So just be sure you check where the ceiling beam is before you mount a tension pole.
pole grip leg warmersssss 🥰
Needed in winter sometimes that dry skin won’t let my ass stick no matter how much I moisturize.
Love this!!! Beautiful! 😻😻🤩🤩of course it’s kitty approved!
As always thank you!!!
Ugh flying pole!!! My body is aching to try this!! Love watching!!
Remember in iron x, I don’t have mine but I can say I have a keen eye to some shapes bc I learn by watching so many others, the key is that bottom arm. Just like in ayesha top arm engaged means bent. Engage that bottom arm by pushing off that pole with all your might. This usually creates a bend in that bottom elbow. Then really pull with that top arm just as much this creates that body “X” float shape in the middle. I don’t have all the secrets to iron x but I do know that strong push with that bottom arm is key to gaining strength here to hold you. But your ayesha is strong and a strong ayesha is a great start!!!