(2025 Update) The Ultimate Home Poling Handbook
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PolePedia’s mission is to promote the art of pole dancing by providing a consolidated, community-based resource.
PolePedia is a community-based resource for pole dancers across the globe.
This website is all-inclusive for every style, every body, and every gender. It doesn’t matter if you’re an exotic goddess, a gymnastic pro, a dramatic storyteller, or a lyrical genius; you’ll find something here made just for you.
Browse everything from video tutorials and complete guides to fun articles challenges. Interact with the community, request new materials, and explore your own unique pole dance journey.
Learn how to achieve a proper toe point, and exercises to improve your arch. Ace your chopper and learn why it’s bad to jump into an invert – or start with a basic climb and get a feel for doing tricks on the pole.
Browse the Latest Articles from PolePedia:
Discover new pole dancing guides, read articles, and learn tips with PolePedia’s extensive range of articles.
Enhance your training by watching video tutorials, get to know other pole dancers through our interviews, and ace your goals with helpful educational pieces. Every week, new content is released on PolePedia’s platform, so stay up to date with the pole world by exploring new articles, videos, and more on our blog.
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Share your favorite PolePedia articles and features with your friends, and enjoy the pole dance community that you help create!
Dance Pole Review: The Best Choice in 2025
Dance Pole Review: The Best Choice in 2025
If you find traditional workouts to be just plain boring, you aren’t alone. Many people find they get bored lifting weights or running on a treadmill, even when they know about the many benefits of staying fit.
This is one of the reasons PolePedia was created. Using a dance pole is engaging, fun, and rewarding—you get so much more out of these workouts than just toned muscles. But like any exercise regimen, you’ll need quality gear that’s made to last.
5 Ways: Improve Your Grip WITHOUT Grip Aid
5 Ways: Improve Your Grip WITHOUT Grip Aid
In the alluring world of pole dancing, whether you're twirling in the studio, showing off in a competition, or sashaying in a club, one thing's for sure – a solid grip can make or break your performance… But let’s face it, we often find ourselves in a sticky situation, quite literally, relying on those trusty bottles of grip aid to keep us from sliding down the pole like melting ice cream.
10 Pole Moves for the ABSOLUTE Beginner
10 Pole Moves for the ABSOLUTE Beginner
Are you a new pole dancer? Maybe you’ve just got your first pole. If so, that’s exciting! Check out our free Home Poling Handbook for some...
Beginner’s Roadmap to Pole
You’re considering taking up pole dancing – or maybe you’ve been pole dancing for years. Whoever you are, it can be tough to find straightforward, simple answers to many common questions.
We understand it can be confusing to know where to start, or even what you’re looking for – you just want to progress. Maybe you have the question, but don’t know where to go to find the answers.
In our Roadmap to Pole, we’ve taken questions from pole dancers across the globe, crafted bite-sized answers for each, and added optional further reading articles from across our website to help you reach your pole-destination with as little confusion as possible.
Your Pole Journey is Unique
Other people can face the same obstacles, but your perspective and growth in overcoming those obstacles are uniquely you.
We all come from different backgrounds, health, experience with pushing our bodies, and it changes how we view our struggles, handle difficulty, and celebrate victories.
You know your body better than anyone else, so listen to yourself!
If something doesn’t feel right – stop, find out why, prepare, and try again. Always listen to your own individual needs – and yes, it may change from day-to-day!
By learning about and providing for those needs, you’ll see progress through astounding pole victories, muscle gains, flexibility, grace, and overall boosted mood and self-confidence.
PolePedia provides a single, community-based resource to help you work towards becoming the best version of yourself, whether the key is confidence in who you are, your body image, finding your passion, or a mix of all three.
Ultimate Grip Aid Guide for Pole Dancers
Pole grip comes in a variety of forms. Some are liquids, others are gels, lotions, sprays, or resins. So, which one do you choose?
If you’re feeling lost in the world of grip aids and trying to determine which one is right for you, or if you even need grip aids in the first place, this is the place to look.
Explore: Pole Dance Move Dictionary
Help Wanted!
We are looking for a pole partner to help us expand our free Pole Dance Move Dictionary.
PolePedia has released a community-based Pole Dance Move Dictionary. This dictionary is meant to help pole dancers of all levels reference pole tricks and moves from a variety of categories.
Every pole trick listed in this dictionary offers a complete view of the movement, with both written instructions and a video overview to help guide you through each step, complete with:
1. Move Name and Alternate Names
2. Pre-requisite Moves
3. Skill Level and Pole Type
4. Points of Contact
5. Move Category
Beyond that, there is also a section to help you through common mistakes, safety tips, and any additional information that many pole dancers struggled with before.
Best of all? It’s completely free.
Why? Because learning how to pole dance safely shouldn’t cost you money.
LEARN A NEW POLE MOVE:
Superman Prep
This superman prep will allow you to learn how to get into this position safely starting from the floor and it will help you condition your thigh grip
Azu | Feb 26, 2024 | 0 Comments
Pirouette Variations
The Pirouette is an eye-catching transition that you can work into almost any pole dance routine; once you feel comfortable with the basic pirouette, you can start experimenting with variations
Azu | Feb 26, 2024 | 0 Comments
Rockstar Spin
The rockstar spin is a great spin to add to any routine where you need to emphasize through a power spin, makes the rockstar spin name very fitting!
Azu | Feb 26, 2024 | 0 Comments
Butterfly Handstand
Difficulty: Beginner Category: Tricks, Pose, Inverted Type: With heels / Without heels Points of Contact: 2 Also Known As: Handstand Pre-requisite Moves: N/A This butterfly handstand is a great way to prep before learning butterfly aerially as it allows you to...
Azu | Feb 10, 2024 | 2 Comments
(FREE) Home Poling Handbook
In this guide, PolePedia discusses several aspects of poling at home from the very beginning of the poling journey.
We assume that you don’t know anything about poles and are looking for a guide to not just help you purchase a home pole, but to truly understand what you want out of a pole and which one is the right choice for you.
This guide is short enough to be read in one sitting but long enough to be comprehensive. You can read it all the way through, or jump around from section to section.
Every poler’s home poling setup looks a little different, and it’s important to find the right pole for you and your space.
