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My name is Mai Yee, I’m an instructor at Sheila Kelley’s “S Factor” studio in Manhattan, New York. I’ve been doing this movement for five years now. It’s a movement that combines ballet, palates, striptease and pole dancing. We have a website where you can get more information, and that’s www.sfactor.com . And I’m here today to talk to you about pole dancing.
I wanna show you how to do a basic inversion on the pole. Be sure thought that you’ve been doing other movements to build up your strength for this. You wanna be able to hold your body weight up with just your arms before attempting this. And I don’t want you to try this on your own. Be sure you have someone spotting you, who is watching you as you are doing this and they are to catch you in case you start falling. Let’s get started. You gonna bring the hand that’s closest to the pole and take a grasp right by your eyes. You other hand, your palms facing you and you grasping the pole above your head. We just gonna practice a movement of tipping your hips up first. You gonna step in with your right foot as you tilt, your hips are bend your left tie. So just practice that motion of tilting your hips up. That’s the motion that’s gonna take you into the inversion. Once you invert and your hips are up, then you gonna bring your left leg in front of the pole. Once you are up there, you’ll bring the other leg behind and squish the pole between your legs. OK, so you are ready. Here we go. Let’s set our hands. Be back a little bit behind the pole as you step in, tilt your hips up, bring your left leg in front of the pole, cross your other leg behind. And then you’ll start to straighten your upper body, you can slide your hands down a little bit between your legs as you continue to squeeze between your ties on to the pole. Relax your upper body, imagine a snake sliding down, that’s what you are doing. And as your head comes right above the ground, you type your chin into your chest, and place one bone at a time, your neck down your spine. When you first try to invert, you’ll probably gonna be tempted to kick vigorously. Try to get that out of the trick eventually. You wanna eventually pool out with control and slowly, because it’s more beautiful to see it that way and also it’s less .. for your body. If you can pull up slowly without kicking, that would be great. OK, see you later.

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My name is Mai Yee. I’m an instructor at Sheila Kelly’s S Factor Studio in Manhattan New York. I’ve been doing this movement for five years now, and it’s a movement that combines ballet, pilates, strip-tease, and pole dancing. We have a website were you can get more information and that’s www.sfactor.com… and I’m here today to talk to you about pole dancing. I’m gonna show you how to climb the pole today. This is a basic climb. As women we have a lot of strength in our legs, so I want you to really use the strength of your legs to do this climb. It’s not all about your arms. I’m gonna give you a technique that’s three steps, and if you follow the technique and use your legs you’re going to save your arms. You’re facing your pole, you’ll bring your leg up to the pole. Flex your foot, so it’s on one side of the pole. Bring your knee on the other side. You’re going to pull your body up and bring your second leg behind the first one to push the leg into the pole. That’s your platform that you’re going to push off of. The first step is hands go up. The second is your going to pull your knees up using your abdominal muscles, and the third step is your going to squeeze the pole with your legs and stand up. That will send you up higher. Okay, so here we go. Pull your body up, cross your other leg behind. So first step, hands go up. Second step, use your abs, your arms, and your legs… “scooch” your knees up. Third step, scoot back a little bit, squeeze the pole with your legs to stand up. Again, hands, “scooch” your knees up, and then squeeze the pole between your calves and your knees to stand up. You don’t want to stretch your arms way out there. You want to keep your arms close to your body, there’s more strength in that… and I’m going to emphasize again that third step squeezing the pole and using your legs to stand up, rather than using your arm strength there. And here your either going to slide down on a fireman slide or hold on to the pole with your hands. Release with your legs for just a moment, bring your legs out in-front of you, and start to rock your hips from side to side as you prance your legs down to the ground. So, a couple things… the pole is going to feel a little bit uncomfortable at first it takes some getting used to the feeling of the hard metal against your skin. Also, coming down your going to also get used to that feeling. If you’re feeling a bit of a burn between your legs. Um, so don’t give up I know it’s hard to start at first stick with the three steps, really use the strength of your legs, and you’ll be climbing up in no time

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My name is Mai Yee, I’m an instructor at Sheila Kelley’s “S Factor” studio in Manhattan, New York. I’ve been doing this movement for five years now. It’s a movement that combines ballet, palates, striptease and pole dancing. We have a website where you can get more information, and it is www.sfactor.com . And I’m here today to talk to you about pole dancing.
I am gonna show you a trick that we call the Peter Pan at S Factor. It’s an advanced beginning trick, so it’s something that you want to have built up your strength for beforehand with doing easier spins and strength training on the pole. It’s a beautiful, graceful trick that it’s like Peter Pan flying through the air. It’s very, very light. So I’m gonna break it down slowly first: come to the left side of your pole, bring your hand above your head onto the pole, you step with your right foot, reach your left leg out, and you push off of your right leg as your hand, your left hand comes to the pole, you’re gonna turn your fingers down and reach down towards the ground onto the pole. This hand pushes your hips away, that’s the purpose of the second hand, and as you go into the spin you bent your legs. Here we go: right hand, step, reach your leg, push, hand comes to the pole, and you bent your knees and you just flow down to your toes like a little fairy. Let’s do that again with a walk now: They’ll give you a little extra momentum as they’re spinning. Step right, step left, step right, push off, and go into your spin. It’s also really important for you to work both sides of your body, so as you learn the trick on your strong side, then take it on the other side and build up your muscle power and your movement on the other side as well. And that’s your Peter Pan. Fly!