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As I approach my one year Pilates anniversary, I am realizing that the classes and instructors I am drawn to now are quite different to the ones I liked at the beginning.

Back then I preferred the "fun", faster pace, high energy classes and instructors over all others, but now I am more drawn to slower, more technical, more "traditional Pilates" style classes and teaching styles. *I am NOT saying that one is better than the other*, but I am curious to see if others have experienced similar shifts in preferences over time? Maybe in the opposite direction?

I'm wondering if the reason for the shift is that I became stronger and can now enjoy the more technical classes more. Or maybe it's just the novelty of something different.

This is just idle curiosity of a moderately obsessed student. I have seen many, many videos of Joseph Pilates teaching and/or his students performing exercises and they always seem to be moving at a noticeably faster pace than the modern Pilates I've experienced from various teachers. Some videos may have been sped up, perhaps? But not all.

I *love* the slow(er), controlled pace I am experiencing in classes and in privates but it makes me wonder. Was Contrology intended to be more athletic, more physical-culture-esque than the more intentional and mindful approach of today? I follow a bunch of classical and contemporary pilates instructors online and everything I'm seeing is slower than the original JP videos, so it's not just the classes I have personally experienced IRL.

I'd be burning those Therabands sooooo fast! They stick to skin and clothes, they feel weird to touch, they hurt my hands and are really hard to clean.

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