The Ultimate Home Poling Handbook (Updated for 2023)
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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.
Don’t see something you were hoping to? Add your voice! PolePedia is shaped by the community’s needs and desires, and we rely on you to tell us what you want to see next.
Share your favorite PolePedia articles and features with your friends, and enjoy the pole dance community that you help create!
Learning New Pole Tricks
Learning New Pole Tricks
Learning pole tricks can be an exciting and rewarding journey that combines strength, flexibility, and artistry.
Is Pole Dancing a Sport? (Should It Be?)
Is Pole Dancing a Sport? (Should It Be?)
Today, pole dancing is a diverse and inclusive activity that encompasses a wide range of styles, from sensual and expressive to athletic and competitive. But is it a sport?
Pole Dancing Bruises? Not to Worry
Pole Dancing Bruises? Not to Worry
Pole dancing bruises, affectionately called "pole kisses," are a common thing among pole dancers.
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:
Brass Monkey
The Brass Monkey is a great intermediate trick to help you get more comfortable with inverted moves. It presents a comfortable leg-hand style grip to set up a wide range of inverted moves and creates a beautiful transition itself.
Destynnie Hall | Apr 6, 2023 | 0 Comments
Shoulder Mount
The Shoulder Mount is an important step in your pole dancing journey that unlocks a new set of movements and allows you to start putting your own spin on different entrances to inverted moves
Destynnie Hall | Apr 6, 2023 | 0 Comments
Basic Headstand, Pole Assisted
A Basic Headstand is a great way to start playing with shapes on the pole. Not only does it make a great photoshoot move or ending pose for a show-stopping routine, but as you become more advanced, you can also tweak it to give you a dynamic transition onto the pole.
Anna Freezze | Mar 7, 2023 | 0 Comments
Backslide, Pole Assisted
The pole-assisted Backslide is a sexy, cheeky way to add a little flare to your pole routine, helping you get from the pole to the floor or transition into low spins. Adding wonderful shapes to your overall routine, this is a fun basic transition to sprinkle in, and it can be modified however you'd like for extra drama. Add a little body wave as you move down the pole, add in leg waves, or do it with (or without) heels for your own unique effect.
Anna Freezze | Mar 7, 2023 | 0 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.
