New Idea for Quick Warm Up in Cold Weather

Hahaha! This is one of those ideas that comes out during the moment of shower. Yes, how to warm up fast during cold weather.

One of the reason why I slacked on pole was cos it's so hard to get myself warmed up. I would do 15 minutes of 'soft' warm up, follow by 15 minutes of of Zumba Fitness. But then I get all breathless, and still no sweat. Just a little bit warm, comfortable to remove my jacket. Yesterday, after all the terrible work out at Pole Diva, I didn't even perspire a single drop, though I was breathless a good 1 hour after the lesson.

So here it is, my shower inspired idea. It is to go for a very hot shower before doing any exercise! Hhaha. Might sound really silly. Like y make yourself clean before exercising, right? But well, it worked for me. Cos after just 5 minutes of pole, I started to perspire. So from now onwards, I'm gonna use this method to pole jam. Don't think I will be posting up vidz so soon. Needa get back into shape 1st. Have to catch up to their stamina then I will start showing off again. Muahahhaah!!!

Nightmare at Pole Divas!

Last night I went to read Xiaxue's blog. It's actually quite entertaining. I would have expected her to be using proper English and all, but here and there were some singlish. It makes me feel close to home. She also meet her finance via the net. Haha. And it looks fruitful.

Today I went to Pole Divas. I must tell you, it is dam shiong!!!! My God. And there I was thinking that Int 3 would be peanuts for me. Since my grader told me that I know most of the moves in Int 3, but asked me to join just to get my stamina back. So I thought, well, why not? I haven't been active in pole for quite some time.

So I went there, saw the Adv class, and thought, ah... easy... But I was so dam wrong. We had a 15 minute work out. Not the usual relax work out to get your body into the exercising mode. But a hard core cardio work out, involving running around a big studio, and climbing up the poles. After the 15 minutes, I was so out of breath. In my mind, I was thinking jia lat.....

We went straight into combos. It was 1 combo after another. We were told to do 1 combo for a couple of times, then the instructor would go on to the next. And mind you, it was non-stop. All the combo moves were easy. But I just couldn't catch up. Furthermore, I had trouble understanding cos the terms were different. I had to observe and then do it. So they do things like mid chopper to scopio, scopio variation, tammy, handstand recover. Then they did some other variations involving these moves. But its over and over... I didn't have time to catch my breath. I was thinking, wha lao... if push further, I sure faint. 

Lastly, before the cool down, we had to do 5 sit ups from bat. Again I had trouble. Breathless, I was struggling in to straight-leg bat, which I'm so helpless in. I couldn't even get to the straight-leg bat to do the sit ups.... The instructor told me to go home practice straight legs. ARGH..... 

So I really have to brush up on my techniques and most importantly my stamina. Otherwise I will never graduate at this rate. 

So anyway, to pole friends, I don't think I am able to take any pic or vidz. Really hard. Don't even have time to catch my breath... I was still breathless after 1/2 hr on the way home. Crazy right?!?!? I called Ming immediately to tell her about it. And she laughed hard. Lolz. I will jia you over here, while you all also work hard k? I will still go to our FB page to update. ^.^

Kambate!

P/S: During shower, I was reflecting about the class. All the moves are easy to to me. So why did I fair so badly. Then it hit me. It was the run and the climb. I felt like I was doing army training than anything else. And mind you, the ceiling is higher than Ming's and we have to climb to the top. Same goes for the mid air combos. The ang mos take 3-4 climbs. I take about 7 climbs and only reach 3/4 of the pole!!! So by the time I reach there, all I could think of is to slid down, sit on the floor, pang san, Like how I used to do at Ming's. But no time, cos after i did one move out of the combo and slid down, instructor will tell us to do again, or change another routine.... Sweat.....

Yesterday had a great day. 

The morning started with me finding my way to the city. On the way to the bus stop, I saw a granny with a bandage on her right foot, using a roller walker checking out her garbage bin. I walked towards her and wanted to offer her some help. We started chatting and she told me that she's 86 this year, living on her own since her husband died. Told me something about the pension which I didn't understand anything. Then she invited me to her house, wanting to give me some chocolate. I was a bit worried. The thing about stranger and food. But she seemed harmless enough, and how was I to reject an old lady? Argh.. So in to the house I went, anxious about missing the bus. Her house was small and neat and there was a pet parrot. Somehow sensing that I was in a hurry, she told me to make my way after giving me a packet of chocolate buns.

Off to the city I went. Went up the bus and asked the bus driver to tell me when to alight when reaching my stop. We chatted and he told me that the next time I want to go to the city, it will be faster if i were to take the train which is 20 mins walk from my house. Oh well. hehe

Met Remy and Sining and we had lunch together. Sining wanted to go shopping so Remy and I went to a bar at Chapel Street to chill out. Here are some pictures. 

I was really glad to see both of them here. Having Sg friends, catching up in Melbourne. Makes me feel that I'm not that far from home. Have somemore friends to catch up with. Will call 'em soon!

Did some pole prac today. Vidz is here.

This Sat I'm going to the Sexpo Exhibation. SuzieQ will be poling there! Hope that I will get to see her performance live!

Trying out the new pole

Here's a vid of me with the new pole. Didn't do much. More like getting use to the pole. It was so much better doing it at the studio instead. Most likely won't be posting me on pole for a while after this. 

Pole Practise 23rd Sept 2009

No Boundaries

Glad tat after coming back to pole for a month I can do this routine now.

Wanna thank my pole mates for helping with this filming.

Love 'em all!

My pole Competition

I did so badly here. haiz...

Results for Super Import Nights 2009 Pole Competition

My 1 min show case for pole competition at Super Import Nights 2009

My Pole Competition Choreo

Pole Performance at St James Dragonfly

Had a performance at St. James Dragonfly last weekend, 16th May 2009. It was Celest's concert, and we were invited to perform for her in one of the segment. We are using our new X-Stage. I'm so not seasoned to the new stage, and was worried about not being able to perform my pole moves, though it is the simplest of the 3. Poor Eunice had to wipe the pole right after me coc of my sweaty palms!

Pole Practice 20 May 2009

Today I wanted to try to jump into butterfly. It is really not as easy as it seems. took a few attempts with the help of Ming's advises.

My New Pole Video

Been a while since I have learnt new pole stunts. Today is a happy day that I managed to accomplish some new moves! Yeah!

Pole Practice March 2009

Here's some update of my pole training. Haven been learning much things since beginning of the year cos I had been busy with wedding and some other stuff.

So here;s the latest stunts that I had learnt.

Enjoy

Jade

I managed to master Jade yesterday, so here it is. ^.^

I conquer

Just some updates on my pole learning. Everywhere is so sore that it's not funny. But am really satisfied. I conquer hand stand dismount after weeks and weeks of struggle, new stunts that are being taught, and learnt some new tricks on my own, though its not on the vid.

So, enjoy!

Dance Fanatic?

Today at a performance, I just saw my all time favorite dance teacher. She told me that she is currently teaching spanish and belly dance. I so wanna learn belly dance. It's one of those dance that looks easy but requires a lot of technique. However her classes are held every Saturday afternoon. Hmm... Should I sign up for it? After all, I haven learn dance from her for ages. Miss being her student... Has it been 10 years already?

Lately I have also been a pole fanatic. It's crazy. I am even thinking of investing in to having a pole at home. But this is really unwise. I will have to ship it over when I move to Australia next year... On the other hand, having a weekly class is not enough for me. I wanna learn more, and at a faster speed. My body can already take more than 2 sessions of intense lessons. I want it to be really challenging. Even thinking of signing up for another class in Jitterbugs just to kill that urge.

Basic Pole Choreography

This is my Week 5 in pole. Today Ming wanted us to do some simple pole choreo with the spins and inverts that we had learnt over the past few weeks. It's so bloody tough... to keep to the timing, the position to end the moves, the number of spins, etc. Though it's not perfect, both Idy and I were pleased with what was recorded. After all, it was our 1st try. ^.^

Another Basic Pole Piece

Here is another of my pole piece to my latest favourite music. Was 'forced' to do it cos I of the many countless different classes that I had been attending for the past month.
Realised that even though I was taught about 7 spins in basic, durning the piece, it becomes kinda hard ton remember what to use.

Basic Pole Class 'grad' piece

Just did a routine, cos Eunice says that I have not graduate from any pole basic classes after the many many basic classes that I went to. hehe

So here is a simple piece that I did impromptu. lolz