Kicking and Grappling With Inanimate Objects

[shanmonster]

I went to my first Muay Thai class yesterday. The instructor is very inexperienced, and although he may have an idea how to do things, he can't really elucidate why he does those things. Regardless, I got a lot of kicking/punching practice, and worked up a prodigious sweat. I think he was very surprised at the power in my kicks and punches. I knocked him off balance over and over again with my "swing kick" (or what I refer to as a high roundhouse).

After kickboxing, I went to ATS class, then pole dancing. We covered Arabics and Arabics with a half-twist in ATS. Pole dancing was ... unfortunate. An unprecedented amount of students showed up (more than twenty), and a second class was hastily put together in the small studio. The poles used were craptastic and highly unstable, and snowy_kathryn ended up falling on her arse when her pole collapsed, falling on top of her. So not good. Not Good At All.

Today my entire back aches, likely from all the high-impact punching and kicking I was doing. I haven't been actually making contact in quite some time (my wing chun class is still mostly non-contact and highly technique-driven), and whole groups of muscles suddenly come into play when you're actually beating the shit out of something.

This afternoon I'm checking out the facilities at the handmade paper shop. If all goes well, I'll be supplementing my meagre dance income by making paper. I'm also planning to audition for the Royal Medieval Faire this autumn.

.... I just got a message from someone (name not given to protect the sanctity of the workplace) telling me their co-worker has been trying to stick magnets to a wooden filing cabinet for the past while. Oy!

In other news, I want to play this video game.

Comments

[twilightrabbit.livejournal.com]

How is snowy_kathryn? Is she hurt badly or was it only a case of not cool shock? I have no idea having not seen the poles or knowing their weight.
On another note:
I thought auditions would have happened already in April, but it's Wednesday for the Faire. You 'ave given me something to think about. Haven't done that in years.

how awful

[lucymisch.livejournal.com]

Is Snowy Kathryn OK? How awful that you experianced such a shockingly run pole dancing class. I can assure you that not all set-ups are so badly run - at the moment the pole dancing industry is trying to create a governing body to control who teaches it, so that there are more standards, but this obviously didn't happen at the class you went to.

But do try it again! (you can message me if you need any help finding a good training centre), or you can check out my blog http://poleexercise.co.uk/blog/ for loads of advice about classes and step-by-step video guides! In fact you could always just do it at home with your own pole and then you know its safe! But try not to be put off by that awful experiance, although I know it's hard. I have been teching for five years, and I have never had a pole fall down as I use the right equipment and know what I'm doing!

Lucy
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