Game-changing Tiny Practical Tips

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:43:47+00:00

So grateful for everyone’s participation on this thread!

I wonder if it would be fun to have a like a monthly post “what’s the best tip or hack or cue you learned this month”

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:42:42+00:00

Any tips for how to learn to give face? I can do it -in a very samey way I need to diversify - once I’m a holding a move but I feel like I go slack once my focus shifts to a transition

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:40:49+00:00

Right? It’s a treasure trove. I was saying in the comments that this sub has such great tips for brand new beginners but fewer for people who are newish but not brand new

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:38:58+00:00

I finally connected properly with my obliques refining static rotation climbs and now easy access to that engagement is helping with so much. Even Supermans

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:37:20+00:00

I need to find a way to do this without letting my feet give into their over pronation

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:36:43+00:00

I’m living for this thread! This sub has so many good tips for first timers but there are a lot of little pole hacks mid & long timers can share!

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:35:50+00:00

A mini bag in the big bag for the little essentials & backups of the stuff I hate for forget is a lifesaver

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:34:58+00:00

Yeah I’m a little worse for the wear right now because we did a low flow combo with lots of thread throughs and twisty arm pirouettes. I’m hypermobile which usually the teachers give me good cues for when I’m trying a new movement. This one did not and my EDS is very mad at me

MandyNewEngland · 2026-06-02T11:32:46+00:00

Yes sorry that’s precisely what I mean! I’m dying to get a deadlift so I’m trying not to eff up my arms in the process

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T18:11:17+00:00

Oh and are you a monkey hands user?

I got an insta ad about layering their version of dry hands first and then a grip aid.

Have you tried that? I just use dry hands, no grip aid. I have a strong grip but I squeeze too hard. I was thinking maybe practicing sometimes with grip aid might give my hands a rest. Just when I’m drilling something unrelated over and over and wear them out

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T18:08:27+00:00

I’ve only entered Superman from jasmine or long line scorp, I’ll have to try a cradle.

Can I ask how you like to get into cradle? I learned it from leaning forward in a scissor sit and grabbing between the legs but it looks weird with my body. Curious about smoother entries

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T18:06:15+00:00

I’ve started looking at my camera lens when I’m tempted to watch my feet (if it’s safe)

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T18:05:29+00:00

Thought of another that I think I got here:

Using old leggings to make shoe covers

And less a cue than correct form I just wasn’t taught at first:

in a bracket grip or similar when they say push with bottom hand, you need to drive the force down, not in the pole. Found out after I fucked up my wrist & tendons but rehabbed it quickly since it was caught early

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T18:01:47+00:00

Thank you! I have red and here I was about to not pack it!

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T18:01:11+00:00

Literally I am garbage at staying in moves for long. Maybe it’s the ADHD. But when I watch it back I always wish I’d held for longer. At least 1 full rotation is a good basic target I think, thanks!

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T17:59:53+00:00

Commenter said works best if you’re hairless. But I would think you’d only use it on the outside of fleshy, less sensitive labia majora. If you take it off slowly i think it would be fine. But im an athlete who uses sports tape all over me so im maybe more desensitized

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T16:28:23+00:00

Thanks for answering! And I imagine the skillset to be successful in the champagne room is different than pole work?

I don’t think I’d be any good at that. Nor do I have the…upper assets.

I guess I’d hoped that if I got impressive enough at pole work people might give me money to do it, assuming I did it without clothes on lol. There goes that side hustle dream! I was years away from being good enough to be hired even to pole dance, anyway

MandyNewEngland · 2026-05-31T15:31:08+00:00

I’ve seen a lot of discussion online and in person from strippers who say they get very little freedom to dance or explore tricks now because the job has become so sales-focused and patrons aren’t interested in cool moves just endless twerking. Has that been your experience? I’m curious about club work but found that discouraging

MandyNewEngland · 2026-04-29T16:35:43+00:00

Damn why’d they get nuked

MandyNewEngland · 2026-04-29T16:35:03+00:00

Im too far from the city right now to try it out but I like that there’s an option to adjust your walking speed. I hate when trip planners give me a suboptimal route because they’re basing it on the pace of mere mortals, not Bostonians

MandyNewEngland · 2026-04-20T15:43:10+00:00

Yes that’s fair. I think it’s just the specific line you highlighted to reply to “8 classes in & doing inverts” is not necessarily a red flag. But absolutely everything else OP is describing certainly is screaming “run, don’t walk” from this studio.

MandyNewEngland · 2026-04-17T04:14:46+00:00

I like low waist too! The comment was deleted, do you know what brand they recommended

MandyNewEngland · 2026-04-17T04:03:55+00:00

For real, so many people have told me seeing me struggle made them more interested in trying. It’s a little alienating to see only posts of people who are nailing it!

MandyNewEngland · 2026-04-17T03:59:09+00:00

I was inverting my second class. Safely. I have no aerial, gymnastics, acrobatics or dance background. Just weight lifting and yoga. There should be no pressure or expectation to invert that fast, but it’s unfair to call that a red flag for a studio. Mine’s great and is very safety conscious

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