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From time to time threads crop up about posing. "How do I learn to pose?" "Whats the best way to pose?" "I am doing my first contest what poses?" blah, blah, blah. There is always the same answers, "A great physique is ruined if they guy can't pose" or "Check out this youtube video"
Now if you are a seasoned competitor one way or another you have figured out how to pose by trial and error. Some videos, pictures, or documents might help you with a tip or two but for the guy who has never dawned the trunks in anger, I just don't think they will do much good. Not only that it is probably a waste of time to even view them. Posing is performing, it's a feel, the way you can brush your teeth in the dark you have to be able to perform without mirrors and many times literaly blinded by the light. It's in your breathing, how you display yourself (one can learn a lot from a puffer fish google it and see how it uses air to expand itself making itself appear larger then it really is to scare off predators) All of your breathing and posing techniques can be practiced in the gym as you workout. How does the newbie learn all of this?
Go to a ballet studio, take ballet lessons if you have to but pay the instructor to teach you how to pose ie..perform. Trust me even if they have never heard of bodybuilding they know how to do the nutcracker so I think they can figure out a couple of poses. Once you learn and become proficient with these techniques then you can watch these posing vids and you might get something out of them.
Once you become a natural poser and that means you flow even when mixing a protein shake then you are ready for the next step. Find a Magician in your town. Pay him to teach you hand directionals that they use for their transitions. Have them help you incorperate in with your routine. These transitions are what magicians use to take the audience's attention from the actual trick. They will be what you use grab the audience and hook them in to your routine.
Now if you are a seasoned competitor one way or another you have figured out how to pose by trial and error. Some videos, pictures, or documents might help you with a tip or two but for the guy who has never dawned the trunks in anger, I just don't think they will do much good. Not only that it is probably a waste of time to even view them. Posing is performing, it's a feel, the way you can brush your teeth in the dark you have to be able to perform without mirrors and many times literaly blinded by the light. It's in your breathing, how you display yourself (one can learn a lot from a puffer fish google it and see how it uses air to expand itself making itself appear larger then it really is to scare off predators) All of your breathing and posing techniques can be practiced in the gym as you workout. How does the newbie learn all of this?
Go to a ballet studio, take ballet lessons if you have to but pay the instructor to teach you how to pose ie..perform. Trust me even if they have never heard of bodybuilding they know how to do the nutcracker so I think they can figure out a couple of poses. Once you learn and become proficient with these techniques then you can watch these posing vids and you might get something out of them.
Once you become a natural poser and that means you flow even when mixing a protein shake then you are ready for the next step. Find a Magician in your town. Pay him to teach you hand directionals that they use for their transitions. Have them help you incorperate in with your routine. These transitions are what magicians use to take the audience's attention from the actual trick. They will be what you use grab the audience and hook them in to your routine.
