February 13, 2025 • 47 mins
Pole on the Call Podcast — Season 4
Pole Dancer and Competitor, GeGe
In this episode, Cris Rivers & Mændy Mac interview the world traveling pole dancer and competitor, GeGe who is a student at Pole in the Wall and Fly Club.
BIO:
I started pole as a form of practicing self love. As a single traveling mom this became a space for me to let out all my emotions. It gives me a stage to show my creativity and also gain strength at the same time. Doing this has challenged my flexibility, strength and mobility. I love the pole community because they are always accepting of your journey. This is something I look forward to continue to do no matter where I land.
LINKS:
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Pole Dancer and Competitor, GeGe
In this episode, Cris Rivers & Mændy Mac interview the world traveling pole dancer and competitor, GeGe who is a student at Pole in the Wall and Fly Club.
BIO:
I started pole as a form of practicing self love. As a single traveling mom this became a space for me to let out all my emotions. It gives me a stage to show my creativity and also gain strength at the same time. Doing this has challenged my flexibility, strength and mobility. I love the pole community because they are always accepting of your journey. This is something I look forward to continue to do no matter where I land.
LINKS:
Instagram @la_amazonian
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Let us know how you like this episode and share with a pole friend!
Free free to Follow us and Tag us on Instagram @poleonthecall
Or email us for advice, comments, questions you would like us to answer on here and more at poleonthecall@gmail.com
Or you can visit or Website for more Episodes, Free Stuff, Courses and more at www.poleonthecall.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Hey, hey, everyone, we are back with another episode.
I'm excited to be here. We're pulling the car and
I am Chris Rivers.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm Mady Mack.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We are here with the incredible pole dancer and poll
competitor gg.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Y'all, hey, did you? Thank you so much for being
here with us tonight and being willing to share the
story of your amazing pole journey. I know, I'm really
excited to hear because for a world traveler, I guess
we should start at the beginning before we get to
(00:38):
any of that. What brought you to pole dancing?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I started paul dancing during COVID, such a lovely time,
and I think when I started it was more to
get in tuned with my body, to fill find the
sex appeal, to.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Be sexy and I don't, I'll just swing on.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh, Like I've always wanted to poll, I've always like
admired it. So yeah, that's that's what kind of brought
me to it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And where did you start pull dancing?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I started poll dancing at this beautiful studio called flight Club.
Flight Club is in Chicago. I'm originally from Chicago and
I started there and I started they have a series
called Divine Intervention, and basically what that series does is
you're committed for an eight week program and in that
eight weeks, you're building on something you did last week,
(01:35):
and you're with the same amount of people. So it's
kind of like a Cohart in the sense like a
half of semester. And then I guess Level two, Level three,
Level four, Level five, and I was with.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The same people.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So it's like when you accomplished something, the people that
were there knew where you started from. So seeing each
other's growth was the beauty of part of that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I loved those like how yeah, stuff like that, It's
so fun. When did you make the transition from students
to competitor?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I actually competed my first year of doing POLL. I
did Level one. It was only three of us, but
it was a good chance to just compete. I competed
to shine Down song forty five at PSO Centro and
I got second place and that was like the first
time I ever competed. It was such a interesting experience. Yeah,
(02:35):
it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
MG, do you have a video of that? I love
that song, so.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I do have a video and I posted it on
my Instagram because it was like it was a pso
like what the fuck moment because it was one like
I did the ball, I did my whole routine flawlessly,
but I threw my cake right during the performance, and
as I toddled to try to get my cake, I
fall on the stage, so looking with Paul, and then
(03:02):
I got back up yay, and then to toddl again
and fall going down the steps. So it was a
very interesting moment in my Poe dance life.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But yeah, I do. I do have the video of
that song. Uh yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That was too funny. So like your first competition and
like anything that could go.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I mean I wore like a.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
What was called six Creatures of Xix I think they're
called costumes, so it was very grippy to the pole,
so that helped me stick. I had some gray hair,
but like, nothing went wrong with my routine. It was
just after the bow I fell and that was that
was the.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Moment of like, Okay, we're just gonna get off the
stage now.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So it was just one of those things it's like
you've given this piece to the audience, you perform, you
put everything out there, you're done, but you have to
I do not it gracefully.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So yeah, did you get in the video? Is there
footage of all of the after the bow?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yes, there is footage.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
There is stash out of the bow, and uh, it
didn't catch my second fall.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I want to call it the first fall in the video.
So I'm glad the video didn't catch my second fall.
But it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But yeah, yeah, but you still got up and then
you continued competing and you did not let that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah I did. I did. I've done three competitions in life.
I've done three.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So do you have a background in dance?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And no, No, I do not have a dance background whatsoever.
Growing up, I'm a I'm a nerd. I was on
the debate team, the math team, the academic cathlon. I
was playing water polo. All the things not transition to
pold like none of those things transfers to pole. So
(05:06):
I think having a dance background helps majorly when you
do poe. But I am a theater major, so the
performing aspect of me knows how to perform. However, tricks
are harder to come by sometimes because it takes strength,
it takes flexibility, it takes these multiple amount of things
put together. But for me, as long as I can
(05:28):
capture an audience, I know I got them.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, I was gonna say, you must have something because like,
when I see you dance, you're just like a force.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I really appreciate that because in my head it's just
like I know some tricks I'm not there yet to do.
But for me, it's like it's been so funny. I've
been thinking about creating a new instagram called the Sad
Girl Polar because all I dance to it's very sad,
evoking music that makes.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You want to cry up like I dance out my feelings.
It's it's a way.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It's an outlet for me, a healthy outlet, I would say,
to get out all my feelings because like I deal
with enough toxic city at work, so I just kind
of want to dance it out and that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
My man, though I love your playlists, Thank you, I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I love that side Girl Polar. Dear. Let us know
if it happens, it will.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It probably will because I'm at the point where I
think I may need two separate pages to post my
pole life in my record life.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
As oh my gosh, well, do you ever have any
aspirations to be a teacher.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
However, I want to get better at other things before
I do become a teacher. I speaking to teachers realize
it's really hard to teach and also train for yourself
because most of your time is teaching.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So it's I don't I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
See how you guys do both be honest, like how
are you teaching class and also keeping your skill level
to what it is, because if you're a level four
pollover to teaching level one, how are you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Keeping those level tricks? You know? How you keeping them there?
So I do.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's just finding the balance, I think for me, and
once I figured that out, I will probably figure out
the way of becoming certified and what that means.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I love that in the future. But in the meanwhile,
do you have any plans to compete again soon?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I don't know yet. I would like to compete this year.
I would like to compete at Great Lakes. They usually
have a competition in November time frame. I don't know
where life will move me within the next six months,
so depending on that, depending on.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Where I live, where I lay my head.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Will depend on, and then accessibility to a studio as well.
So whenever I do move, I know it will be
this year.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't know when.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Is when I will probably decide, yes, we're going to
do this. It's just with Great Lakes that is right
around Thanksgiving. It's always hard.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
To train for.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
A competition that happens right around the holidays because you know,
the holiday cheer makes you want to, yeah, eat and
lose all habits that are healthy for you.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So yeah, well that would be awesome if you do
get to compete. But I am sad you're leaving us.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I know I am too ill. I told Chris the
other day during the other like I will be back.
I travel very frequently. Again, if you see me pop
into a class, don't be alarmed. If you see my
name on the roster like, oh okay, Ggi's back, be alarmed.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Chicago.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yes, yes, awfully, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I will know by the end of this week of
where I'm moving, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Cool beans. I love it. Oh and gee, so do
you when you travel? And I know you get to
travel a lot, I'd be curiously living on social media.
Do you get to visit different post studios?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I make that a goal is to visit a post studio.
I visited the post studio in Australia. I visited one
in Puerto Rico. I tried my best to do Bali,
but Bali didn't pan out.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I've done one in Baltimore, I've done it in Atlanta,
I've done it. I've done it a couple of places.
I've done it in Providence, Rhode Island. So I do
make it a goal because I do think you learn
different from how.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
People are teaching you. It's like when you're in school.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Everybody has their favorite teacher, right or certain people are
teaching a on step or move or trick better for
you to understand than other people. And for me, i'm
very I watch and that's typically how I learned. But
when it comes to muscle engagement, sometimes it doesn't click
to me depending on who's teaching it. So it's just
(10:16):
it is what it is. It's no fault to the teachers,
just like apparently I don't understand the English you're telling me.
But I think the biggest goal the goal that I
did cross office. I went to Puerto Rico and I
danced there and they taught foeblo on Spanish, and lord knows,
I'm not Bilingo whatsoever. And I got the combo down
just by watching, and that for me was a goal,
(10:37):
Like I took a class in another language and still
learned it. So it was it was definitely like a
proud dancing moment.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Right dances the universal language it is.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
But even with Poe, we both know that moves are
called different in English, like some people say butterfly, some
people say this, some people say that, and it's the
same move. So just trying to think of that, like
and the language is probably even harder at that point,
you know what I'm saying, like like I don't know
what you're telling me to do, so I don't do it.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Let me let me see you. I will try.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
So yeah, I love it. Oh what's like the most
beautiful studio you've seen?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Oh that's a great question. That is a great I
will have to say. When I took a private with Bentley,
that was a good studio. I think he's at Vertical Joe's.
I think that's the studio he's at. They had like
I don't know, like ten poles in a studio and
(11:40):
like all the walls and mirrors, so it's just like
it gave me some round sound like at any angle
I'm at, if I'm spinning on a pole, I.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Can see myself, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
So it was and then they had different like I'm
I'm used to the regular size poll, but they had
the different variations of of sizes and in circumference, and
that was like a shockma oh, okay, I guess it's
smaller someplaces or it's you know what I'm saying. So
I think I think based off of the things they
had to offer, that was the better studio, Like did.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You get to experienced a different circum circle?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I did it, And the big one's hard. I don't
see how people do it, Like I think it's easier
for certain movements but harder for others, you know what
I'm saying. So like like I don't understand how people
do split grip on the bigger one, Like I don't
see how they hold themselves personally, or like even cup grip,
because cup grip is a harder grip as well, So
like trying a bigger poll with cup is just like
(12:39):
you gotta be pulling a shoulder out.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Or something to hold that. I guess I have too.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I learned on a fifty five, and then as soon
as I realized there was forty five, I was like,
so much better.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm just like, yeah, it's
hard enough for me to thread through a forty.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Five, you want me to thread through a fifty, but
this is bigger's as much. It's more space that I
have to overcome. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's cool. Though. It's nice to have the different options
in one studio.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
It is because it's like, you never know what you're
gonna get, So it's to diversify yourself as a dancer.
I would say that would be having the option to
do things as well.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Nice, love it.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Since you've been to a couple in different areas of
the world, do you find there's a difference in pole dancing,
like in Australia versus Puerto Rico versus.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah. So in Australia use shaving cream as grip. I
didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I know that was a thing, So I'm like, oh, okay,
you shaving cream as grip? And I said, yeah, because
shaving cream one, you'd be fine. I've never seen that,
nobody do that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I'm like Okay, this is a thing, so uh and
I find.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
The way they teach it is very cohort. In Australia
it was very hard to do, like a drop in
type of method in Australia, Puerto Rico you can do
drop in methods. I would say their studios are smaller.
I've been to two and they just seemed a little
bit smaller than what I am used to. But I
(14:18):
think it just depends on where you go. It depends
on like even when you go to the States, depending
on the studio, you can get higher ceilings or you
get the ceiling that's in your house and you just
do core work and floor work and call it a day.
So it just depends. It just depends. And I don't
think it's an area. I just think it's the space
(14:39):
that they have personally.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well. After experiencing so many different pole styles, what would
you say is your favorite pull dancing style?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That's a great question.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I always go go for power, even though I'm very
slow and methodic about it, but I always choose like
power moves over sexy flow or hills. Like I always
tell people, even though hills make me six o'cole, I
prefer dancing without hills, just because it's easier for me
to grip the floor, it's easier for me to move
from one place to the other and use the entirety
(15:20):
of the space, whereas I just feel like wearing hills.
I'm dangling these hills off my feet and they just
don't look pretty in the sky. So because it's like
it's so much harder to point with the hill like,
cause I'll point, but it doesn't look like I'm pointing,
because I think you have to do an extra little
two cents. I don't know what you have to do
(15:40):
to make it look like your toe is pointed at hills,
but it's some real work. But yeah, I think I
would say I go for a lot of power and
dynamic movements. I tend to try to go for static rotation.
I tend to try to go for like the oh
my God's drops, Oh where that come from? Like very
show stop for type of movement, but with a storyline
(16:04):
in between.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I love that power pot It's so fun.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
It is, but it'll make you have you have to
go to the gas station and get for ice bags
and put them in your bathtub and sit in it.
It with some colda and then after you do that run,
you're a hot bath with some EPs and salt and
then and then you may be fine.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You may be fine after that.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh my gosh, did you say you were doing those
cold baths before? Are you still doing those?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I do know what I'm training, Like, if I'm training
for a competition, I will do it because at that
point I'm in the studio four times a week, so
at that point I need it. But if I'm just
regularly just going to class and like not training for
a competition, then I don't necessarily need to do it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It was.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Like I.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I come from a very track background, lifting heavy, and
we always did ice baths after we would we would
go up and wait. I guess it just shocks the
system and it releases the whatever energy are in your
muscles out of you. I always feel good after an
ice bath if I've been let's just have been a
studio for three hours and.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I've worked my ass all of that three hours straight.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Ice bath. I don't know what it does, but it
makes me feel better. Like I don't know, like scientifically
what it does, but it does make my body feel
less sore, even even though I've stretched it does release
whatever that tension is for me there, Because I know
some people prefer heat over ice.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I do both.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Depending on what I'm doing. Like if I've like like
strain a muscle, I will heat. But if my muscles
are like cramping and they're just like had too much
work out ice, It just depends.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
How long do you sit in that ice.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I sit seven minutes, and it's a long time because
it's it's truly a cold bath, like it's four backs ice,
cold water. Sit in it, play two songs, get out,
Like that's literally what I what I would do.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, can I cheat in Jersey's cold?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
You know you have to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
You have to get it to a certain temperature to
actually like really feel like just try it. Just try it,
like like just try one day. I know it sounds crazy,
Like I even have the foot socks, like what you
get is from Amazon. You cover your toes because your
toes is what lets out a lot of heat. But
if you cover them, you won't go into like hypothermia.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You need to think of that nature. So yeah, oh
and g yeah, you gotta try it, gotta try.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I never know to you try, I definitely will. I
like the cold shower, Like I got in the habit
of taking my normal shower and then one too, and
it's of just cold water running on me to like
kind of wake myself up and get the blood circulating.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
That's something I.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Can't do because it's hot in my house, like with
heat on or even with air conditioning, Like I can't
have half the body not being cold and half the
even you're all cold and none of your coach.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's so hard for me to say. I don't see
how people say coach.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I was like, I could sit in ice because my
entire body is emerged, so my body knows what is
what's happening. But if cold water is sitting here and
this other side is warm, it's just my b I
don't know what the fuck going on. So it's it's
it's bad.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So yeah, I love it too, Freddy, Thank you appreciaring that,
No problem. What are other ways that you kind of
rest your body from training besides cold baths?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
So I take breaks, I'm not always in the studio.
I don't have any other ways, but I do a
lot of other self care things, Like I have a
self care Sunday. I put a face mask on to
be on for fifteen minutes and when I take it off.
So that's what I do, like every week. I make
that a thing for me. But other than that, I
(20:08):
don't do anything else.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I love it. Yeah, I need to get back to
the face.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Masks bottom on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
They gave me a pack of like one hundred for
about twenty five bucks, and they're different flavors.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You get honey, pomegranate.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Like great, I'm like, I don't even know face masks
came in all these flavors, like I can eat it
or something, but apparently they come in different flavors.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
A hundred.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So you do the sheet ones. I love.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, the sheet one. I do the sheet one.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Now I'll do the mud mask if I feel as
though my face is breaking out, like the bathroom body
works charcoal mud one. I do that if I feel
like a pimple won't go away. But other than that,
I do the sheet one.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I haven't done it in a while.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, Like the sheet ones are decent.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
You can get them from the dollar tree, you know,
just to start, just to see what it does. And
for me, it makes my face feel like like I
don't have like I think I have normal skin because
you know when you go get a face, they usually
as is your skin usually oily or your skin is
usually dry. And me, I've never had a problem with acne,
thank you Jesus. And I don't really have much problems
(21:21):
when it comes to skin. But I just kind of
do it, just just to do.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It, Yeah, because it feels good.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It does feel good.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It makes them like when I take it off, I
feel like, oh, yes, that's such a relief.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Any other competition training tips.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I would say, uh, eat more.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
That's something I slack in and like as far as like,
because I don't think people realize time that calories you're
burning when you're prepping for a competition, and I think
i've I've saw myself get exhausted because I wasn't eat
enough protein. And don't don't be like a like I'm
(22:05):
pretty good on carbs, but don't. I would say, never
do a keto diet when you're trying to prepare for
a competition personally, because carbs is what you burn first usually.
So yeah, so I'll eat more, stretch more, and make
sure you're breathing. And I know that sounds so stupid,
but it's like certain things you have to really, like
(22:28):
really blow it out like that when you're doing yoga,
when you're inhaling for four, exceling for four. That helps
depending on what you're doing in the air, aerial in.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
It does. Breath this key, breath this key.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
And yes, those are really good tips. Thank you for
sharing those, g GiB especially. Yes, I am training for
the competition this year.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Out Boston, or to try at level five.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, one day I'll get there. Yes, here you will
one day.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
I just wanted My biggest pole goal, like as a
dancer is to be able to jump from one pole
to another pole. Not sure how, but that is that
is a goal of mine, like to meet you. I
don't think i've ever seen it, So if you've seen it,
and you can send me the link so I can
like just replay it and like keep this as a
(23:27):
dream of mine.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I'll have to look it up. He used when he
started ten to fifteen years ago. He used to do
it all the time, Not so much now that he's older.
But I'll see what I can find.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Okay, he's got to work on my hops, but I
think I have time to compensate for not being able
to jump.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You can already reach one leg from one.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I can't, So I just need a small hop to
get me there.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
In the.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Just sprout out and try to catch it mid air.
We're gonna figure it.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
It's gonna be like a trapeze artist, like you know,
just flying across the floor. That is that is an
impossible may not be impossible, but probably impossible goal for being.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
We'll think about it a little bit more in the
studio next time.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We will. We will. I have to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You can do it a couple of ways. One of
my favorites that I've always wanted to try is he's
on one of the pole like in a type like
the pole is on his back like and a't want
to be Titanic, but his feet are on the pole
in his handler behind him, and he jumps from the
pole like that.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Oh, I see you saying. I will always think of
it as instead of having both feet on the pole,
kind of like Spider Man's sideways and then jumping.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh, that would be fun. Maybe you can create it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That's that. That was the thought.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I'm like, okay, because you're already Spider Man leaning one way,
and then because it gives you that verd like that
push that way. Maybe because I can't see myself just
standing and jumping that far forward jump sideways, I'm like
reach it out to try to I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
We'll figure this out.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
If I can get to that pose and put like
four or five mats down, we can figure this out.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Thanks pull goals.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
That's one realistic goal, and I think I could do
this because I've done it before. Is to do a
Titanic on Stamus Steel. I've done it on Silicon, but
I've not done it on Stamus Steel. I've also I've
held a bat wing once. We want to try to
make that a continuous one of Gg's tricks and in
the bag of tricks that I bring out, you know
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what I'm saying. I want to be able to always
go from like an inside lag haying straight to a
bad wing and then maybe go to sit after that.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So I think those are goals this year, though I
do want to be able to comfortably aerio chopper invert
spend without using momentum. I wanted to be able to
control that movement because I can do it.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Is it controlled? Probably not?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
So Yeah, I think that's that's what I want to
work on this year is Ariel chopperspin.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Love it, you are going to get it? Yes, have
a favorite poetrick at the moment.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
My favorite pole combo is going from a marley to
a jade to a tammy. That is like my my ultimate.
It's gonna happen every single time you see me dance.
But now I have a second one. The second one
is a remy laid back going to this funny. I
don't know what you call it. I have no clue.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I'm bad with names. But a vortex I think that's
what it's called.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
So you put your arm in front the pole and
you grab your wrists like that and your legs and
just kind I think that's called vortex. That is that
is I have to figure out a better way to
get out of that. But once I figure out a
boy to get out of that, because you're like, you're.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Already this twisted type of grip.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
So like when you let your hands go, you're sliding
down the pole because your your knees are not locking
the pole. So it's like, what's what's holding you here
other than faith in Jesus?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But yeah, I love those cameos, and you're right. The Marley.
You are always getting into.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Ma g I yem.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
That's like my favorite because I'll go straight from Marley
and then I'll maybe do a little pipe real quick,
and then I'll swing my leg around for the jade
and then to come down to I call it the tammy.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Other people call it different things. I don't know what
it's really called.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we all have our go tos.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, that is to go to and I want to
be able to do an iguana on spin. I just
can't find my shoulder when I come from laid back.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I just I can't.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Like I'll be there hands back, but my shoulder won't
touch the pole and I'm just spinning, spinning, spinning, not
knowing having any awareness. I see it, shoulder won't get there,
don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
If that's not really a position I want to be in,
just flailing with legs upside down.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Like I just like a good laid back lace upside
down type of type of deal, because I know you
kind of do your crescent like you do a crescent.
That's I want to go to. Yeah, and then you
cut back up. I'm like, nope, I want to just
laid down and figured out how to get to the floor.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Well, man, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I can't wait for what. I can't wait to see
when you get it.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I'm working on it, hopefully, was it.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Girl Polar Instagram page?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yes, I need to I need to start it. I'm
gonna start it, and I'm up because I Yeah, I'm
gonna start it. Yeah, that's gonna be a thing for me.
It's gonna be my second Insta page.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Oh yeah, maybe do you have a pole nemesis?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Inside leg hangs. I hate those and I know you
can go a lot of places from them. I know
they're pretty, but they hurt so bad, so bad, and
I hate I hate thread throughs as well, like like
when you come from like a Hello boys and you
try to thread through to toothbrush, I hate it.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Why? Why why do you want me to do this?
Speaker 4 (29:42):
So those are I would say those are my nemesis
right now? Yeah, I would say those those things and
then split grip like that push at the bottom is
such a struggle. Granted we do the exercises and and
it helps, but I'm two hundred and five pounds, Like it's.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
A lot, Like there's a lot of weight there.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
This is Gus having So yeah, I would say those
are my nemesis. Same yeah, but you do you do
like scorpion with no like like okay.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
On one side, on my silly side. The other day
it was so painful.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
They're they're painful and it's like pain on the back
of the cab and that's opening.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, it's just why would you do this to me?
Like you don't love me?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That's what I left Chris's class because I was.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
I left early. I have to finish the entire poll lab.
If that makes you feel better. I did one little
flow and I'm like, yeah, I'm God.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, sometimes it's like that.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, I'm learning from embracing the pain for the emotional pain.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I mean, I was out my emotions not to get
batterly abused to get more frustrated. But one day, one day,
like I have to, I have to really stretch more.
And that has been a goal of mine to just
stretch and then see what that takes me because I
don't stretch and I expect my flexibility just to magically appear.
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So yeah, it is a goal of mine to stretch more.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yes, that's a great goal. That's a that's a good
goal to work on. Yeah, do you have a particular
hand or body grip that you use.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I use monkey grip, I mean monkey hands. I think
it's called. And then for the back of the knees,
I used tack. I tack, I think it's called and
then I use the red one, the monkey grip. But
hearing good things about the green, so a man might
be a switching colors, who knows.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Beware if you're going to compete because they banned the.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Ring, can't her you can't do the green anymore like
they've been firm grip.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
They just been in all types of stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Next thing you know, they could be banning the sticky
pants and the sticky costumes.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yes, oh no, not the sticky I think why. The
reason why they did it is because it was hard
to clean for the pole cleaners and there be residual
would take them longer, and it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
But so does I tack.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
If you put I tack on your hands, that's that's
that's sticks on a pole like crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
That might be next.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Don't say that, don't I mean?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
I I use it for places that are hard for
me to hold. I tech I put behind the knees,
I'll put in my armpits, you know what I'm saying,
Those type of places where I know more likely you
probably will sweat here. So yeah, between the legs, those
places that put ie teck.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, well, hopefully they won't ban the eye tack.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh my god, it's been longer than monkey Hands and
stuff and they haven't yet, so hopefully it'll be okay
like Monkey Hands has been.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I feel like the eye tack is only an issue
if you leave it on for a long like if
you forget to clean it and then you come back
to it, then it's like, oh no, oh, I'll get
it right away.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It's okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, who knows?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I do?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Well. What are some things that are coming soon for you?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Coming soon? I'm moving, not sure where, uh coming soon.
I'm traveling to Chicago on Tuesday, so I probably visit
my home studio.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
And that's about it. I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
I know, I know, I'm one of those people that
never stays at home and always in a hotel or
somebody's couch, But I'm really trying to enjoy my bed
more often this year.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
So we'll see how that works out for me. Your
poor bed. I don't want to say it has no company.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
It just has the sheets and the pillows and that's it.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
It's interesting because everybody wants to travel, but they don't
think about the the bed park.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I mean, granted, beds are nice other places, but sometimes
you just miss your own.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yeahs to.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Which I feel is a flight club in Chicago. That's
the studio club.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
That's the studio I usually go to. I may check
out another one just cause, but you know, it's always
good to visit your home teacher, the person that made
you love it, breathe it, live it, all those great things.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Are you going to perform?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I'm may just take a class. I don't.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
They have showcases at different times, so I don't think
I'll be there when they are actually doing a showcase.
I've actually never performed there. It's so funny, like that's
my home studio. I've never performed there. But that was
like in my baby poll stage days before, like I
became the dance to who I Am.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Now.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
You don't know, they haven't seen the truth, my true
nature yet.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
They have they you know, they haven't. They haven't seen me.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Perform, so that's that's been an interesting Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Well you need to give them a gift.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
I will if I'm there long enough, and I don't
think I will be.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
And I think that's part of the issue. It's like
she's always on the go. Yeah, so that's like the
biggest issue.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Well hopefully for the future.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, yeah, we'll plan for that.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
It is. Oh and then I guess we should ask
what do you do in your free time?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Do you have?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I actually have free time, so I'm a homebody Massachusetts, Springfield.
I guess has made me a homebody. I watched Netflix.
I just finished Squiggings too. But I'm very artsy. I
make vision boards, i make rose walls like things of
that nature. That's kind of what I do with my
free time. I just redecorated my bathroom. It is currently
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orange with green accents. So I painted my bathroom orange.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
That's what I did want free time.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Uh yeah, so yeah, that's that's that's what I do.
And then if I'm not watching Netflix, I'm probably sleep
somewhere enjoying my slumber with my pillows.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Like, yeah, I love it too, that's the life.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah, I didn't. It is not for the week. It's
sleep is for the well rested.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
That's what sleep is for, and I am well rested,
so I'm just sleep.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
There's a Squid Games too.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, yeah it's out, so I'm not sure if you
watch What Games one, but s Good Games two is
out so on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Because I just finished all my other Netflix things.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, I ended up. We cancel Netflix a couple of
months ago because it's just too expensive. And of course
Quick Games two comes out.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, I get it through to my T mobile plan
because they counted it with with ads with the plan
for like I think a certain time here it so, yeah,
that's how I do buy.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Oh maybe I'll sign up with a new email just
to get the free months for once. Do that?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
No, I don't do that.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
He created emails every month so he could just get
it free. A'most like you would think they'll check the
credit card informations. I guess they don't go that far.
They just check the email and call it the dad.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
The call.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I too funny. I can't do. We ask like, do
you cross train as well? Have you tried other areas
or the gym?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
I mean I do gym, but I don't cross train,
like I don't. I don't do anything other any other
area events, Like I don't do lira.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
I it's been a while since I've done like the
ribbon thing we put it on the pole.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
I forget what that's call you tied around you. I
don't do hoop. I do nothing other than come to
pole and then wake up.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I love it too for except for competition. Then then
you're changing.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
So like I generally I do. I'm in the gym
doing regular things. I don't lift as heavy as I
used to when I did track. But it's just the
military and me just having to go to the gym
to stay fit.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Blase blah, all that great stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
It's beautiful that the military mess me up with. You
gotta do this.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
For me.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
The rock march is like, we'll do an eight mile
ruck seventy five pounds in your back with the weapon.
I'm like killing my hips, and that's why my hips
are tight. That's what my hyps are tight.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
So yeah, oh, it's actually kind of like the rough marches.
I hated the pull ups.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah, but now you love the pull.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Ups, the pull ups on the pole.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I guess yes, Oh no, I've grown to love pull
ups because those helped me with pull ups on the
pole once I learned how to do it properly, because
in the military it was reps. As many does a
teacher how to properly engage.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Away from that?
Speaker 4 (40:31):
But it's taking time, like everything it does, hurry up
and wait, yeah, you know what you breathe that you live.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
In much in the meantime, how many hypermobile shoulders have
dislocated in the problem.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I'm so glad I don't have that problem.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Like I don't have hypermobility at all, So I'm glad
I'll have to be aware of that because like when
I see your aunts, I'm.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Like, oh, yeah, oh, I to good that this is
not normal.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
But yeah, Who'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Happens?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Oh? I guess that's all the generic questions that we
can do. You want to give any advice to anyone
who is interested in pooll competitions, I.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Would say my advice is to be patient with yourself, uh,
set realistic goals, expectations. And also, like, the biggest thing
I think is necessary is do you're saying combo to
another song? And I say that because after a while,
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you get tired of hearing the same sitution. You tire
your song but if you that really triggers to see
if you know what you're doing versus a if you're
just muscle memory to whatever lyric, you know what I'm saying.
So I would say that helped me when it came
to competing. I would do my saying thing to a
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different song, and it's like and evoke whatever story I'm
trying to tell. Because I'm always a dramatic person, so
I can.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Only speak for that.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
But even if you were entertainment, can you tell a
story to a different song with the same movement and
see what happens. You may find better options, better ways
to say things, or better things to do.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Thanks, that's brilliant advice.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yes, I kind of want to ask because I'm always curious.
What are people's inspirations? What are some of your poll
dancer inspirations out there?
Speaker 5 (42:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Okay, uh, I'm really bad at names, but I think
it's Amelia. She dances in p Valley. I think her
name is she has like super long legs, very flexy.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Damn sure, huh you have.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
To watch it, uh Marlow for sure. Those are some
of my answer. And then also what is his name?
I think his real name is Andre, but I think
his uh instagram is vertical joke, like vertical something Pennsylvania
(43:28):
that Batman too. I actually him in composition. He did
it in Chicago and like part of it it was uh,
let's Chow by Miguel the song and he broke like
the fourth fill.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
He's like, oh, you're trying to.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
Get a sneakily get He'll put his tablet down and
he spoke to the audience and then he did like
it was a whole vibe.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
I'm like, Okay, that was cute.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
Because I think he went and he got like a
move named after him or something like that. Like those
are realistic goals, like to have a name like you know,
basically you did what small Bows did, but for Pope.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
So you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, right, he's super amazing. He's like all the way out,
like I think it's like ten hours from us, like
on the other side of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Okay, Okay, I know it was Pennsylvania. I didn't know where.
I know it wasn't like a big city. I knew
it wasn't like Pittsburgh or like Philly. I knew it
was like maybe middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
So you have to live in the middle of nowhere
to get so creative.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
You do because there's nothing else to do, so you
become a creator. Yeah, either you throw rocks in the
sand or you create.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Yes, he I.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Learned a lot from him when we interviewed him. He's
always been inspiring, Like his power Pool game.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Is like it's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Right, Maybe one day I'll get to take class from him.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
But yeah, that's a true.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Maybe I'll be scared, don't be scared, just done.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Wow, we're going to take classes from Gigi five ten
years when she's read.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
That was so dope. That was dope. Yes, definitely dope.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Oh my gosh. You should teach like uh like flow classes, okay,
your music and I'll just be there all the time.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Power pol class, Yes, that is on the it's all
the books to be done.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Like, no, I won't take that, just kidding.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Will my body to at least forty five for power
but I'll be okay, we're forty okay.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
I don't know what's going on with my body. M hm,
shit happens, right, It's okay, it's doing its best.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
This is true.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Do you have any advice for anyone who wants to
start getting into pool.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
I think my only advice is just don't give up
too easily, because there are things that I still struggle
to get.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
But I I won't give up on it.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
I might, I might table it when I set it
to the side, but I'm not going to give up
on certain things.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah, I love that. Don't give up. I want to
start asking, now, why do you still pull?
Speaker 4 (46:43):
Why do you still because there's so much stuff you
can still learn, Like, it's so much stuff you can do.
It's it's it's so it's so much, so many things
you can do. It's a it's an art form and
my personal opinion, and it's the way I've chosen to
tell certain stories.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
I absolutely love that. Now we're going to collect all
these clips for our next segment of why do you
Love It?
Speaker 4 (47:09):
But not to cut you guys off, I do have
to go. I do have to leave short.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Lid is right there.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Just tell her listeners and watch her if thank you
so much for listening to or watching this episode of
Poll and the Call podcast with the Amazing Gigi.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
My name is Fandy Mack. Sure, I don't have to
do this. I have to figure this out, and I'm
it's not what the fucks on.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Thank you so much. This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (47:50):
Thank you
Hey, Hey, hey, everyone, we are back with another episode.
I'm excited to be here. We're pulling the car and
I am Chris Rivers.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm Mady Mack.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We are here with the incredible pole dancer and poll
competitor gg.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Y'all, hey, did you? Thank you so much for being
here with us tonight and being willing to share the
story of your amazing pole journey. I know, I'm really
excited to hear because for a world traveler, I guess
we should start at the beginning before we get to
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any of that. What brought you to pole dancing?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I started paul dancing during COVID, such a lovely time,
and I think when I started it was more to
get in tuned with my body, to fill find the
sex appeal, to.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Be sexy and I don't, I'll just swing on.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh, Like I've always wanted to poll, I've always like
admired it. So yeah, that's that's what kind of brought
me to it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And where did you start pull dancing?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I started poll dancing at this beautiful studio called flight Club.
Flight Club is in Chicago. I'm originally from Chicago and
I started there and I started they have a series
called Divine Intervention, and basically what that series does is
you're committed for an eight week program and in that
eight weeks, you're building on something you did last week,
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and you're with the same amount of people. So it's
kind of like a Cohart in the sense like a
half of semester. And then I guess Level two, Level three,
Level four, Level five, and I was with.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The same people.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So it's like when you accomplished something, the people that
were there knew where you started from. So seeing each
other's growth was the beauty of part of that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I loved those like how yeah, stuff like that, It's
so fun. When did you make the transition from students
to competitor?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I actually competed my first year of doing POLL. I
did Level one. It was only three of us, but
it was a good chance to just compete. I competed
to shine Down song forty five at PSO Centro and
I got second place and that was like the first
time I ever competed. It was such a interesting experience. Yeah,
(02:35):
it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
MG, do you have a video of that? I love
that song, so.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I do have a video and I posted it on
my Instagram because it was like it was a pso
like what the fuck moment because it was one like
I did the ball, I did my whole routine flawlessly,
but I threw my cake right during the performance, and
as I toddled to try to get my cake, I
fall on the stage, so looking with Paul, and then
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I got back up yay, and then to toddl again
and fall going down the steps. So it was a
very interesting moment in my Poe dance life.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But yeah, I do. I do have the video of
that song. Uh yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That was too funny. So like your first competition and
like anything that could go.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I mean I wore like a.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
What was called six Creatures of Xix I think they're
called costumes, so it was very grippy to the pole,
so that helped me stick. I had some gray hair,
but like, nothing went wrong with my routine. It was
just after the bow I fell and that was that
was the.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Moment of like, Okay, we're just gonna get off the
stage now.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So it was just one of those things it's like
you've given this piece to the audience, you perform, you
put everything out there, you're done, but you have to
I do not it gracefully.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So yeah, did you get in the video? Is there
footage of all of the after the bow?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yes, there is footage.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
There is stash out of the bow, and uh, it
didn't catch my second fall.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I want to call it the first fall in the video.
So I'm glad the video didn't catch my second fall.
But it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But yeah, yeah, but you still got up and then
you continued competing and you did not let that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah I did. I did. I've done three competitions in life.
I've done three.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So do you have a background in dance?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And no, No, I do not have a dance background whatsoever.
Growing up, I'm a I'm a nerd. I was on
the debate team, the math team, the academic cathlon. I
was playing water polo. All the things not transition to
pold like none of those things transfers to pole. So
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I think having a dance background helps majorly when you
do poe. But I am a theater major, so the
performing aspect of me knows how to perform. However, tricks
are harder to come by sometimes because it takes strength,
it takes flexibility, it takes these multiple amount of things
put together. But for me, as long as I can
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capture an audience, I know I got them.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, I was gonna say, you must have something because like,
when I see you dance, you're just like a force.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I really appreciate that because in my head it's just
like I know some tricks I'm not there yet to do.
But for me, it's like it's been so funny. I've
been thinking about creating a new instagram called the Sad
Girl Polar because all I dance to it's very sad,
evoking music that makes.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You want to cry up like I dance out my feelings.
It's it's a way.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It's an outlet for me, a healthy outlet, I would say,
to get out all my feelings because like I deal
with enough toxic city at work, so I just kind
of want to dance it out and that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
My man, though I love your playlists, Thank you, I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I love that side Girl Polar. Dear. Let us know
if it happens, it will.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It probably will because I'm at the point where I
think I may need two separate pages to post my
pole life in my record life.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
As oh my gosh, well, do you ever have any
aspirations to be a teacher.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
However, I want to get better at other things before
I do become a teacher. I speaking to teachers realize
it's really hard to teach and also train for yourself
because most of your time is teaching.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So it's I don't I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
See how you guys do both be honest, like how
are you teaching class and also keeping your skill level
to what it is, because if you're a level four
pollover to teaching level one, how are you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Keeping those level tricks? You know? How you keeping them there?
So I do.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's just finding the balance, I think for me, and
once I figured that out, I will probably figure out
the way of becoming certified and what that means.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I love that in the future. But in the meanwhile,
do you have any plans to compete again soon?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I don't know yet. I would like to compete this year.
I would like to compete at Great Lakes. They usually
have a competition in November time frame. I don't know
where life will move me within the next six months,
so depending on that, depending on.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Where I live, where I lay my head.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Will depend on, and then accessibility to a studio as well.
So whenever I do move, I know it will be
this year.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't know when.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Is when I will probably decide, yes, we're going to
do this. It's just with Great Lakes that is right
around Thanksgiving. It's always hard.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
To train for.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
A competition that happens right around the holidays because you know,
the holiday cheer makes you want to, yeah, eat and
lose all habits that are healthy for you.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So yeah, well that would be awesome if you do
get to compete. But I am sad you're leaving us.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I know I am too ill. I told Chris the
other day during the other like I will be back.
I travel very frequently. Again, if you see me pop
into a class, don't be alarmed. If you see my
name on the roster like, oh okay, Ggi's back, be alarmed.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Chicago.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yes, yes, awfully, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I will know by the end of this week of
where I'm moving, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Cool beans. I love it. Oh and gee, so do
you when you travel? And I know you get to
travel a lot, I'd be curiously living on social media.
Do you get to visit different post studios?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I make that a goal is to visit a post studio.
I visited the post studio in Australia. I visited one
in Puerto Rico. I tried my best to do Bali,
but Bali didn't pan out.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I've done one in Baltimore, I've done it in Atlanta,
I've done it. I've done it a couple of places.
I've done it in Providence, Rhode Island. So I do
make it a goal because I do think you learn
different from how.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
People are teaching you. It's like when you're in school.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Everybody has their favorite teacher, right or certain people are
teaching a on step or move or trick better for
you to understand than other people. And for me, i'm
very I watch and that's typically how I learned. But
when it comes to muscle engagement, sometimes it doesn't click
to me depending on who's teaching it. So it's just
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it is what it is. It's no fault to the teachers,
just like apparently I don't understand the English you're telling me.
But I think the biggest goal the goal that I
did cross office. I went to Puerto Rico and I
danced there and they taught foeblo on Spanish, and lord knows,
I'm not Bilingo whatsoever. And I got the combo down
just by watching, and that for me was a goal,
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Like I took a class in another language and still
learned it. So it was it was definitely like a
proud dancing moment.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Right dances the universal language it is.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
But even with Poe, we both know that moves are
called different in English, like some people say butterfly, some
people say this, some people say that, and it's the
same move. So just trying to think of that, like
and the language is probably even harder at that point,
you know what I'm saying, like like I don't know
what you're telling me to do, so I don't do it.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Let me let me see you. I will try.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
So yeah, I love it. Oh what's like the most
beautiful studio you've seen?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Oh that's a great question. That is a great I
will have to say. When I took a private with Bentley,
that was a good studio. I think he's at Vertical Joe's.
I think that's the studio he's at. They had like
I don't know, like ten poles in a studio and
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like all the walls and mirrors, so it's just like
it gave me some round sound like at any angle
I'm at, if I'm spinning on a pole, I.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Can see myself, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
So it was and then they had different like I'm
I'm used to the regular size poll, but they had
the different variations of of sizes and in circumference, and
that was like a shockma oh, okay, I guess it's
smaller someplaces or it's you know what I'm saying. So
I think I think based off of the things they
had to offer, that was the better studio, Like did.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You get to experienced a different circum circle?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I did it, And the big one's hard. I don't
see how people do it, Like I think it's easier
for certain movements but harder for others, you know what
I'm saying. So like like I don't understand how people
do split grip on the bigger one, Like I don't
see how they hold themselves personally, or like even cup grip,
because cup grip is a harder grip as well, So
like trying a bigger poll with cup is just like
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you gotta be pulling a shoulder out.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Or something to hold that. I guess I have too.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I learned on a fifty five, and then as soon
as I realized there was forty five, I was like,
so much better.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm just like, yeah, it's
hard enough for me to thread through a forty.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Five, you want me to thread through a fifty, but
this is bigger's as much. It's more space that I
have to overcome. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's cool. Though. It's nice to have the different options
in one studio.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
It is because it's like, you never know what you're
gonna get, So it's to diversify yourself as a dancer.
I would say that would be having the option to
do things as well.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Nice, love it.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Since you've been to a couple in different areas of
the world, do you find there's a difference in pole dancing,
like in Australia versus Puerto Rico versus.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah. So in Australia use shaving cream as grip. I
didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I know that was a thing, So I'm like, oh, okay,
you shaving cream as grip? And I said, yeah, because
shaving cream one, you'd be fine. I've never seen that,
nobody do that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I'm like Okay, this is a thing, so uh and
I find.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
The way they teach it is very cohort. In Australia
it was very hard to do, like a drop in
type of method in Australia, Puerto Rico you can do
drop in methods. I would say their studios are smaller.
I've been to two and they just seemed a little
bit smaller than what I am used to. But I
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think it just depends on where you go. It depends
on like even when you go to the States, depending
on the studio, you can get higher ceilings or you
get the ceiling that's in your house and you just
do core work and floor work and call it a day.
So it just depends. It just depends. And I don't
think it's an area. I just think it's the space
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that they have personally.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well. After experiencing so many different pole styles, what would
you say is your favorite pull dancing style?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That's a great question.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I always go go for power, even though I'm very
slow and methodic about it, but I always choose like
power moves over sexy flow or hills. Like I always
tell people, even though hills make me six o'cole, I
prefer dancing without hills, just because it's easier for me
to grip the floor, it's easier for me to move
from one place to the other and use the entirety
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of the space, whereas I just feel like wearing hills.
I'm dangling these hills off my feet and they just
don't look pretty in the sky. So because it's like
it's so much harder to point with the hill like,
cause I'll point, but it doesn't look like I'm pointing,
because I think you have to do an extra little
two cents. I don't know what you have to do
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to make it look like your toe is pointed at hills,
but it's some real work. But yeah, I think I
would say I go for a lot of power and
dynamic movements. I tend to try to go for static rotation.
I tend to try to go for like the oh
my God's drops, Oh where that come from? Like very
show stop for type of movement, but with a storyline
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in between.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I love that power pot It's so fun.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
It is, but it'll make you have you have to
go to the gas station and get for ice bags
and put them in your bathtub and sit in it.
It with some colda and then after you do that run,
you're a hot bath with some EPs and salt and
then and then you may be fine.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You may be fine after that.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh my gosh, did you say you were doing those
cold baths before? Are you still doing those?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I do know what I'm training, Like, if I'm training
for a competition, I will do it because at that
point I'm in the studio four times a week, so
at that point I need it. But if I'm just
regularly just going to class and like not training for
a competition, then I don't necessarily need to do it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It was.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Like I.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I come from a very track background, lifting heavy, and
we always did ice baths after we would we would
go up and wait. I guess it just shocks the
system and it releases the whatever energy are in your
muscles out of you. I always feel good after an
ice bath if I've been let's just have been a
studio for three hours and.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I've worked my ass all of that three hours straight.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Ice bath. I don't know what it does, but it
makes me feel better. Like I don't know, like scientifically
what it does, but it does make my body feel
less sore, even even though I've stretched it does release
whatever that tension is for me there, Because I know
some people prefer heat over ice.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I do both.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Depending on what I'm doing. Like if I've like like
strain a muscle, I will heat. But if my muscles
are like cramping and they're just like had too much
work out ice, It just depends.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
How long do you sit in that ice.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I sit seven minutes, and it's a long time because
it's it's truly a cold bath, like it's four backs ice,
cold water. Sit in it, play two songs, get out,
Like that's literally what I what I would do.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, can I cheat in Jersey's cold?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
You know you have to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
You have to get it to a certain temperature to
actually like really feel like just try it. Just try it,
like like just try one day. I know it sounds crazy,
Like I even have the foot socks, like what you
get is from Amazon. You cover your toes because your
toes is what lets out a lot of heat. But
if you cover them, you won't go into like hypothermia.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You need to think of that nature. So yeah, oh
and g yeah, you gotta try it, gotta try.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I never know to you try, I definitely will. I
like the cold shower, Like I got in the habit
of taking my normal shower and then one too, and
it's of just cold water running on me to like
kind of wake myself up and get the blood circulating.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
That's something I.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Can't do because it's hot in my house, like with
heat on or even with air conditioning, Like I can't
have half the body not being cold and half the
even you're all cold and none of your coach.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's so hard for me to say. I don't see
how people say coach.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I was like, I could sit in ice because my
entire body is emerged, so my body knows what is
what's happening. But if cold water is sitting here and
this other side is warm, it's just my b I
don't know what the fuck going on. So it's it's
it's bad.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So yeah, I love it too, Freddy, Thank you appreciaring that,
No problem. What are other ways that you kind of
rest your body from training besides cold baths?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
So I take breaks, I'm not always in the studio.
I don't have any other ways, but I do a
lot of other self care things, Like I have a
self care Sunday. I put a face mask on to
be on for fifteen minutes and when I take it off.
So that's what I do, like every week. I make
that a thing for me. But other than that, I
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don't do anything else.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I love it. Yeah, I need to get back to
the face.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Masks bottom on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
They gave me a pack of like one hundred for
about twenty five bucks, and they're different flavors.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You get honey, pomegranate.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Like great, I'm like, I don't even know face masks
came in all these flavors, like I can eat it
or something, but apparently they come in different flavors.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
A hundred.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So you do the sheet ones. I love.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, the sheet one. I do the sheet one.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Now I'll do the mud mask if I feel as
though my face is breaking out, like the bathroom body
works charcoal mud one. I do that if I feel
like a pimple won't go away. But other than that,
I do the sheet one.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I haven't done it in a while.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, Like the sheet ones are decent.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
You can get them from the dollar tree, you know,
just to start, just to see what it does. And
for me, it makes my face feel like like I
don't have like I think I have normal skin because
you know when you go get a face, they usually
as is your skin usually oily or your skin is
usually dry. And me, I've never had a problem with acne,
thank you Jesus. And I don't really have much problems
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when it comes to skin. But I just kind of
do it, just just to do.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It, Yeah, because it feels good.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It does feel good.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It makes them like when I take it off, I
feel like, oh, yes, that's such a relief.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Any other competition training tips.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I would say, uh, eat more.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
That's something I slack in and like as far as like,
because I don't think people realize time that calories you're
burning when you're prepping for a competition, and I think
i've I've saw myself get exhausted because I wasn't eat
enough protein. And don't don't be like a like I'm
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pretty good on carbs, but don't. I would say, never
do a keto diet when you're trying to prepare for
a competition personally, because carbs is what you burn first usually.
So yeah, so I'll eat more, stretch more, and make
sure you're breathing. And I know that sounds so stupid,
but it's like certain things you have to really, like
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really blow it out like that when you're doing yoga,
when you're inhaling for four, exceling for four. That helps
depending on what you're doing in the air, aerial in.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
It does. Breath this key, breath this key.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
And yes, those are really good tips. Thank you for
sharing those, g GiB especially. Yes, I am training for
the competition this year.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Out Boston, or to try at level five.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, one day I'll get there. Yes, here you will
one day.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
I just wanted My biggest pole goal, like as a
dancer is to be able to jump from one pole
to another pole. Not sure how, but that is that
is a goal of mine, like to meet you. I
don't think i've ever seen it, So if you've seen it,
and you can send me the link so I can
like just replay it and like keep this as a
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dream of mine.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I'll have to look it up. He used when he
started ten to fifteen years ago. He used to do
it all the time, Not so much now that he's older.
But I'll see what I can find.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Okay, he's got to work on my hops, but I
think I have time to compensate for not being able
to jump.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You can already reach one leg from one.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I can't, So I just need a small hop to
get me there.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
In the.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Just sprout out and try to catch it mid air.
We're gonna figure it.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
It's gonna be like a trapeze artist, like you know,
just flying across the floor. That is that is an
impossible may not be impossible, but probably impossible goal for being.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
We'll think about it a little bit more in the
studio next time.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We will. We will. I have to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You can do it a couple of ways. One of
my favorites that I've always wanted to try is he's
on one of the pole like in a type like
the pole is on his back like and a't want
to be Titanic, but his feet are on the pole
in his handler behind him, and he jumps from the
pole like that.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Oh, I see you saying. I will always think of
it as instead of having both feet on the pole,
kind of like Spider Man's sideways and then jumping.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh, that would be fun. Maybe you can create it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That's that. That was the thought.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I'm like, okay, because you're already Spider Man leaning one way,
and then because it gives you that verd like that
push that way. Maybe because I can't see myself just
standing and jumping that far forward jump sideways, I'm like
reach it out to try to I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
We'll figure this out.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
If I can get to that pose and put like
four or five mats down, we can figure this out.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Thanks pull goals.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
That's one realistic goal, and I think I could do
this because I've done it before. Is to do a
Titanic on Stamus Steel. I've done it on Silicon, but
I've not done it on Stamus Steel. I've also I've
held a bat wing once. We want to try to
make that a continuous one of Gg's tricks and in
the bag of tricks that I bring out, you know
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what I'm saying. I want to be able to always
go from like an inside lag haying straight to a
bad wing and then maybe go to sit after that.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So I think those are goals this year, though I
do want to be able to comfortably aerio chopper invert
spend without using momentum. I wanted to be able to
control that movement because I can do it.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Is it controlled? Probably not?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
So Yeah, I think that's that's what I want to
work on this year is Ariel chopperspin.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Love it, you are going to get it? Yes, have
a favorite poetrick at the moment.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
My favorite pole combo is going from a marley to
a jade to a tammy. That is like my my ultimate.
It's gonna happen every single time you see me dance.
But now I have a second one. The second one
is a remy laid back going to this funny. I
don't know what you call it. I have no clue.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I'm bad with names. But a vortex I think that's
what it's called.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
So you put your arm in front the pole and
you grab your wrists like that and your legs and
just kind I think that's called vortex. That is that
is I have to figure out a better way to
get out of that. But once I figure out a
boy to get out of that, because you're like, you're.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Already this twisted type of grip.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
So like when you let your hands go, you're sliding
down the pole because your your knees are not locking
the pole. So it's like, what's what's holding you here
other than faith in Jesus?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But yeah, I love those cameos, and you're right. The Marley.
You are always getting into.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Ma g I yem.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
That's like my favorite because I'll go straight from Marley
and then I'll maybe do a little pipe real quick,
and then I'll swing my leg around for the jade
and then to come down to I call it the tammy.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Other people call it different things. I don't know what
it's really called.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we all have our go tos.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, that is to go to and I want to
be able to do an iguana on spin. I just
can't find my shoulder when I come from laid back.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I just I can't.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Like I'll be there hands back, but my shoulder won't
touch the pole and I'm just spinning, spinning, spinning, not
knowing having any awareness. I see it, shoulder won't get there,
don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
If that's not really a position I want to be in,
just flailing with legs upside down.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Like I just like a good laid back lace upside
down type of type of deal, because I know you
kind of do your crescent like you do a crescent.
That's I want to go to. Yeah, and then you
cut back up. I'm like, nope, I want to just
laid down and figured out how to get to the floor.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Well, man, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I can't wait for what. I can't wait to see
when you get it.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I'm working on it, hopefully, was it.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Girl Polar Instagram page?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yes, I need to I need to start it. I'm
gonna start it, and I'm up because I Yeah, I'm
gonna start it. Yeah, that's gonna be a thing for me.
It's gonna be my second Insta page.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Oh yeah, maybe do you have a pole nemesis?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Inside leg hangs. I hate those and I know you
can go a lot of places from them. I know
they're pretty, but they hurt so bad, so bad, and
I hate I hate thread throughs as well, like like
when you come from like a Hello boys and you
try to thread through to toothbrush, I hate it.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Why? Why why do you want me to do this?
Speaker 4 (29:42):
So those are I would say those are my nemesis
right now? Yeah, I would say those those things and
then split grip like that push at the bottom is
such a struggle. Granted we do the exercises and and
it helps, but I'm two hundred and five pounds, Like it's.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
A lot, Like there's a lot of weight there.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
This is Gus having So yeah, I would say those
are my nemesis. Same yeah, but you do you do
like scorpion with no like like okay.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
On one side, on my silly side. The other day
it was so painful.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
They're they're painful and it's like pain on the back
of the cab and that's opening.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, it's just why would you do this to me?
Like you don't love me?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That's what I left Chris's class because I was.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
I left early. I have to finish the entire poll lab.
If that makes you feel better. I did one little
flow and I'm like, yeah, I'm God.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, sometimes it's like that.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, I'm learning from embracing the pain for the emotional pain.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I mean, I was out my emotions not to get
batterly abused to get more frustrated. But one day, one day,
like I have to, I have to really stretch more.
And that has been a goal of mine to just
stretch and then see what that takes me because I
don't stretch and I expect my flexibility just to magically appear.
(31:37):
So yeah, it is a goal of mine to stretch more.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yes, that's a great goal. That's a that's a good
goal to work on. Yeah, do you have a particular
hand or body grip that you use.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I use monkey grip, I mean monkey hands. I think
it's called. And then for the back of the knees,
I used tack. I tack, I think it's called and
then I use the red one, the monkey grip. But
hearing good things about the green, so a man might
be a switching colors, who knows.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Beware if you're going to compete because they banned the.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Ring, can't her you can't do the green anymore like
they've been firm grip.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
They just been in all types of stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Next thing you know, they could be banning the sticky
pants and the sticky costumes.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yes, oh no, not the sticky I think why. The
reason why they did it is because it was hard
to clean for the pole cleaners and there be residual
would take them longer, and it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
But so does I tack.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
If you put I tack on your hands, that's that's
that's sticks on a pole like crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
That might be next.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Don't say that, don't I mean?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
I I use it for places that are hard for
me to hold. I tech I put behind the knees,
I'll put in my armpits, you know what I'm saying,
Those type of places where I know more likely you
probably will sweat here. So yeah, between the legs, those
places that put ie teck.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, well, hopefully they won't ban the eye tack.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh my god, it's been longer than monkey Hands and
stuff and they haven't yet, so hopefully it'll be okay
like Monkey Hands has been.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I feel like the eye tack is only an issue
if you leave it on for a long like if
you forget to clean it and then you come back
to it, then it's like, oh no, oh, I'll get
it right away.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It's okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, who knows?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I do?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Well. What are some things that are coming soon for you?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Coming soon? I'm moving, not sure where, uh coming soon.
I'm traveling to Chicago on Tuesday, so I probably visit
my home studio.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
And that's about it. I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
I know, I know, I'm one of those people that
never stays at home and always in a hotel or
somebody's couch, But I'm really trying to enjoy my bed
more often this year.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
So we'll see how that works out for me. Your
poor bed. I don't want to say it has no company.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
It just has the sheets and the pillows and that's it.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
It's interesting because everybody wants to travel, but they don't
think about the the bed park.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I mean, granted, beds are nice other places, but sometimes
you just miss your own.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yeahs to.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Which I feel is a flight club in Chicago. That's
the studio club.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
That's the studio I usually go to. I may check
out another one just cause, but you know, it's always
good to visit your home teacher, the person that made
you love it, breathe it, live it, all those great things.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Are you going to perform?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I'm may just take a class. I don't.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
They have showcases at different times, so I don't think
I'll be there when they are actually doing a showcase.
I've actually never performed there. It's so funny, like that's
my home studio. I've never performed there. But that was
like in my baby poll stage days before, like I
became the dance to who I Am.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Now.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
You don't know, they haven't seen the truth, my true
nature yet.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
They have they you know, they haven't. They haven't seen me.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Perform, so that's that's been an interesting Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Well you need to give them a gift.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
I will if I'm there long enough, and I don't
think I will be.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
And I think that's part of the issue. It's like
she's always on the go. Yeah, so that's like the
biggest issue.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Well hopefully for the future.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, yeah, we'll plan for that.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
It is. Oh and then I guess we should ask
what do you do in your free time?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Do you have?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I actually have free time, so I'm a homebody Massachusetts, Springfield.
I guess has made me a homebody. I watched Netflix.
I just finished Squiggings too. But I'm very artsy. I
make vision boards, i make rose walls like things of
that nature. That's kind of what I do with my
free time. I just redecorated my bathroom. It is currently
(36:52):
orange with green accents. So I painted my bathroom orange.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
That's what I did want free time.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Uh yeah, so yeah, that's that's that's what I do.
And then if I'm not watching Netflix, I'm probably sleep
somewhere enjoying my slumber with my pillows.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Like, yeah, I love it too, that's the life.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah, I didn't. It is not for the week. It's
sleep is for the well rested.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
That's what sleep is for, and I am well rested,
so I'm just sleep.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
There's a Squid Games too.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, yeah it's out, so I'm not sure if you
watch What Games one, but s Good Games two is
out so on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Because I just finished all my other Netflix things.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, I ended up. We cancel Netflix a couple of
months ago because it's just too expensive. And of course
Quick Games two comes out.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, I get it through to my T mobile plan
because they counted it with with ads with the plan
for like I think a certain time here it so, yeah,
that's how I do buy.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Oh maybe I'll sign up with a new email just
to get the free months for once. Do that?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
No, I don't do that.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
He created emails every month so he could just get
it free. A'most like you would think they'll check the
credit card informations. I guess they don't go that far.
They just check the email and call it the dad.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
The call.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I too funny. I can't do. We ask like, do
you cross train as well? Have you tried other areas
or the gym?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
I mean I do gym, but I don't cross train,
like I don't. I don't do anything other any other
area events, Like I don't do lira.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
I it's been a while since I've done like the
ribbon thing we put it on the pole.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
I forget what that's call you tied around you. I
don't do hoop. I do nothing other than come to
pole and then wake up.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I love it too for except for competition. Then then
you're changing.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
So like I generally I do. I'm in the gym
doing regular things. I don't lift as heavy as I
used to when I did track. But it's just the
military and me just having to go to the gym
to stay fit.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Blase blah, all that great stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
It's beautiful that the military mess me up with. You
gotta do this.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
For me.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
The rock march is like, we'll do an eight mile
ruck seventy five pounds in your back with the weapon.
I'm like killing my hips, and that's why my hips
are tight. That's what my hyps are tight.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
So yeah, oh, it's actually kind of like the rough marches.
I hated the pull ups.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah, but now you love the pull.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Ups, the pull ups on the pole.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I guess yes, Oh no, I've grown to love pull
ups because those helped me with pull ups on the
pole once I learned how to do it properly, because
in the military it was reps. As many does a
teacher how to properly engage.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Away from that?
Speaker 4 (40:31):
But it's taking time, like everything it does, hurry up
and wait, yeah, you know what you breathe that you live.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
In much in the meantime, how many hypermobile shoulders have
dislocated in the problem.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I'm so glad I don't have that problem.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Like I don't have hypermobility at all, So I'm glad
I'll have to be aware of that because like when
I see your aunts, I'm.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Like, oh, yeah, oh, I to good that this is
not normal.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
But yeah, Who'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Happens?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Oh? I guess that's all the generic questions that we
can do. You want to give any advice to anyone
who is interested in pooll competitions, I.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Would say my advice is to be patient with yourself, uh,
set realistic goals, expectations. And also, like, the biggest thing
I think is necessary is do you're saying combo to
another song? And I say that because after a while,
(41:46):
you get tired of hearing the same sitution. You tire
your song but if you that really triggers to see
if you know what you're doing versus a if you're
just muscle memory to whatever lyric, you know what I'm saying.
So I would say that helped me when it came
to competing. I would do my saying thing to a
(42:06):
different song, and it's like and evoke whatever story I'm
trying to tell. Because I'm always a dramatic person, so
I can.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Only speak for that.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
But even if you were entertainment, can you tell a
story to a different song with the same movement and
see what happens. You may find better options, better ways
to say things, or better things to do.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Thanks, that's brilliant advice.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yes, I kind of want to ask because I'm always curious.
What are people's inspirations? What are some of your poll
dancer inspirations out there?
Speaker 5 (42:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Okay, uh, I'm really bad at names, but I think
it's Amelia. She dances in p Valley. I think her
name is she has like super long legs, very flexy.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Damn sure, huh you have.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
To watch it, uh Marlow for sure. Those are some
of my answer. And then also what is his name?
I think his real name is Andre, but I think
his uh instagram is vertical joke, like vertical something Pennsylvania
(43:28):
that Batman too. I actually him in composition. He did
it in Chicago and like part of it it was uh,
let's Chow by Miguel the song and he broke like
the fourth fill.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
He's like, oh, you're trying to.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
Get a sneakily get He'll put his tablet down and
he spoke to the audience and then he did like
it was a whole vibe.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
I'm like, Okay, that was cute.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
Because I think he went and he got like a
move named after him or something like that. Like those
are realistic goals, like to have a name like you know,
basically you did what small Bows did, but for Pope.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
So you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, right, he's super amazing. He's like all the way out,
like I think it's like ten hours from us, like
on the other side of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Okay, Okay, I know it was Pennsylvania. I didn't know where.
I know it wasn't like a big city. I knew
it wasn't like Pittsburgh or like Philly. I knew it
was like maybe middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
So you have to live in the middle of nowhere
to get so creative.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
You do because there's nothing else to do, so you
become a creator. Yeah, either you throw rocks in the
sand or you create.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Yes, he I.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Learned a lot from him when we interviewed him. He's
always been inspiring, Like his power Pool game.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Is like it's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Right, Maybe one day I'll get to take class from him.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
But yeah, that's a true.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Maybe I'll be scared, don't be scared, just done.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Wow, we're going to take classes from Gigi five ten
years when she's read.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
That was so dope. That was dope. Yes, definitely dope.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Oh my gosh. You should teach like uh like flow classes, okay,
your music and I'll just be there all the time.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Power pol class, Yes, that is on the it's all
the books to be done.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Like, no, I won't take that, just kidding.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Will my body to at least forty five for power
but I'll be okay, we're forty okay.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
I don't know what's going on with my body. M hm,
shit happens, right, It's okay, it's doing its best.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
This is true.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Do you have any advice for anyone who wants to
start getting into pool.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
I think my only advice is just don't give up
too easily, because there are things that I still struggle
to get.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
But I I won't give up on it.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
I might, I might table it when I set it
to the side, but I'm not going to give up
on certain things.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah, I love that. Don't give up. I want to
start asking, now, why do you still pull?
Speaker 4 (46:43):
Why do you still because there's so much stuff you
can still learn, Like, it's so much stuff you can do.
It's it's it's so it's so much, so many things
you can do. It's a it's an art form and
my personal opinion, and it's the way I've chosen to
tell certain stories.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
I absolutely love that. Now we're going to collect all
these clips for our next segment of why do you
Love It?
Speaker 4 (47:09):
But not to cut you guys off, I do have
to go. I do have to leave short.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Lid is right there.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Just tell her listeners and watch her if thank you
so much for listening to or watching this episode of
Poll and the Call podcast with the Amazing Gigi.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
My name is Fandy Mack. Sure, I don't have to
do this. I have to figure this out, and I'm
it's not what the fucks on.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Thank you so much. This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (47:50):
Thank you
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