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  • The Pole Shebang
  • Tickets to Sydney Fringe: Sept 22-26
  • Tickets to Melbourne: Oct 7-11

  • 👑 MPDQ WORKSHOPS 👑 One of my favourite things abou 👑 MPDQ WORKSHOPS 👑 One of my favourite things about pole comps is the interstate friends who come to judge, host, and teach. Mischka murdered our elbows in Spin Tricks, and then blew our brains in Heels Flow! I always forget to take photos of us, but @mischkapoledancer’s song choice reminded me that I should be training for The Pole Shebang instead of rolling my ankles with edge work… because Black Velvet is in my show… and haunting my dreams 👀 I had the privilege & joy to partner with the Icon herself, Miss @chillirox, while she taught her Doubles Pole & Chair, but I also forgot to film us together - somebody get me a second brain 🤦🏻 I did catch a famous @nicole_harbourpole motorboat though! Thank you all for a sweaty & satisfying weekend at @studioedenpole for @mpdqld 💦🎉
    The Pole Shebang x Captivating Kinis 💥👙💥👙💥👙 Here’s The Pole Shebang x Captivating Kinis 💥👙💥👙💥👙 Here’s what happens when you put a nerdy as pole dude in a super sexy diamond cut slingshot bikini It’s such an absurd amount of movement in such a beautiful bodysuit 😂 but this is how one might acclimate to the revealing new fit. It’s way less vulnerable to swing around at hyper speed where no one has time to actually see you. In The Pole Shebang, I talk about the one time I ever danced in a club and then was too chicken sh!t to ever do it again. It’s really a love letter to the skr!ppa community. Get tix & come see for yourself! 💥 THE POLE SHEBANG 💥 A Solo Storytelling Pole Dancing Show Sept 22-26 | @sydneyfringe Oct 7-11 | @melbfringe Featuring @captivating_kinis 👙
    🤖 AI MUSIC 🤖 It feels like blasphemy to voiceover 🤖 AI MUSIC 🤖 It feels like blasphemy to voiceover this song*, but we need to talk about AI music. I’ve been getting a pretty tickle over using audio in my reels directly related to the tricks I’m doing. But I shouldn’t be too surprised that a song called ‘Ouch (I hurt my foot)’ wasn’t written by a real person. So I’ve decided to adjust my workflow - instead of just adding whatever song shows up in my search results, I save them in my audio folder so I can see the artist info. Turns out, of the dozen songs I’ve saved so far, none of them are linked to a real artist profile. It turns out the reason I haven’t heard of any of these artists is not because I’m old & out of touch - it’s because they’re AI ☠️ So what are you doing to avoid AI music? Do we need to research the origins of every single piece of audio we might potentially want to use in a reel? And I’m only talking about background music that I chuck on a whim in these silly little reels. If you’re choreographing for classes and 💯 definitely if you’re choreographing for shows, you better research! You might even discover there are some real life human artists, who are also not worth dancing to… 👀 ——— *Unethical by @faouzia 🎵 Also get your tickets to come see THE POLE SHEBANG - not only is there nothing AI generated, it’s me onstage, in real life, for an hour, dancing to music from my actual life as a competitive pole dancer! Tickets are on sale now - only at @sydneyfringe & @melbfringe
    🪢 TWISTED LEG LAYBACK aka ouch my foot or eagle 🪢 TWISTED LEG LAYBACK aka ouch my foot or eagle legs for the yogis - a mountainous amount of internal rotation to twist your legs like ropes! The win for today was just taking the hands off - and even that is a killer amount of pressure on the foot. Stay tuned if you wanna see the actual layback in a cute little combo to the song I’m still currently obsessed with… 😘👰🏻‍♀️ ____ EDIT: I’ve been graciously informed that this song is AI generated. I should have known better of a song called ‘Ouch (I hurt my foot)’ - that’s on me 🤦🏻 But it raises a valid concern for us creators, dancers, choreographers, artists... AI music is being pushed out to us on all platforms now. How can you tell if you’re listening to AI? Have you adjusted your habits to avoid it? Do you even care? I’d love to hear your real life human thoughts…
    🪢 BRAID SPLIT 🪢 Nothing fancy, just talking thru a 🪢 BRAID SPLIT 🪢 Nothing fancy, just talking thru a beautiful bendy split! Some options before taking the back leg off: 1. Outside leg hook 2. Hover the bent leg 3. Extend the leg up with knee on 4. Extend the leg up with ankle on 5. Extend the leg back & split for your life! Where’s your braid split at? Have you got the bind? Get in touch if you need tips! Flexy Strong Fridays are live online until Sept 4th, then I’m off on tour for THE POLE SHEBANG at @sydneyfringe & @melbfringe (get tickets if you wanna see me onstage in person) 💥
    🦥 BRADYPUS - Figure 4 Foot Grab Are you struggling 🦥 BRADYPUS - Figure 4 Foot Grab Are you struggling with Bradypus? Girl, same! Here’s two options for grabbing the foot: 1. THREAD THE HAND BEHIND This is the most common entry I’ve seen so far. It allows for a deeper bend to get a more secure neck placement, but requires more active hip mobility & strength to thread the hand through after for the figure 4 foot grab. 2. THREAD THE HAND IN FRONT This is the same set up I prefer for Blenix, Libellula, and Swimmer thread thru. The figure 4 foot grab is very accessible from this entry, but makes the neck placement quite challenging after. Have you tried both? Which do you prefer? Tag me in your Bradypus progress and if you’d like to journey with me on it, DM to join Flexy Strong Fridays online - but get in quick because @melbfringe just went on sale & there’s only 5 more weeks until I leave for THE POLE SHEBANG at @sydneyfringe - get some tickets yo! 💥
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