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Happy Hamstrings: Fire Up Those Muscles for Greater Strength
The hamstrings are crucial muscles and play an important role in overall leg strength. All kinds of athletes, from cyclists, tennis players and fitness enthusiasts can benefit from happy hamstrings, and pole dancers especially know to focus on hamstrings when working...
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Highlights from Pole Con 2019
Today we’ll be covering an amazing event that happened this past week: International Pole Convention 2019 in Denver, CO!The PolePedia team packed their bags, prepped the car, and set out from the comfortably small city of Providence, Rhode Island.1,954...
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The Ultimate Grip Aid Guide
What is Grip Aid? Pole grip comes in a variety of forms. Some are liquids, others are gels, lotions, sprays, or resins. Apply these products to your grip points, such as the hands, knee pits, and thighs and be prepared to stick to the pole better than ever...
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Guide to Dancing in Heels
There’s no feeling like trying on your first pair of pole heels. When you first stand up, you feel a certain kind of empowerment – and perhaps a little wobbly uncertainty – but there’s no denying that there is a definite appeal to the way pole heels...
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Interview with USPDF Gold Medalist Sophia Minx
Prefer to read the interview? Read the transcript: Destynnie Hey everyone! We are here today with Sophia Minx, and she just won gold in USPDF New York – so we’re going to ask her a little bit about what it was like. So, what made you apply?...
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6 Best Pole Dancing Games to Play with Friends
Whether you’re in a studio, planning a pole party, or looking to mix up your home poling routine with pole-pals over the internet, finding the right pole dancing games for your group is essential to keeping things fun and interesting.Once you throw a...
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Pole Competition Essentials For Your Dance Bag
Are you performing in an upcoming competition for the first time? It can be easy to let the little details go unnoticed – you’ve put so much work into building a show, perfecting a routine, and choosing the perfect song. What more could there be?...
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Learning How You Learn
In pole dancing, one of the largest disconnects we come across – as students and as instructors – is learning different mechanics, moves, routines, and so on the way that we need to learn them. As a student, it can be hard to figure out why we...
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How to Build a Show
Hey everyone, Elliot here. Most of my life I've been a performer, and whether it involves performing magic on the street, acrobatics on a renaissance faire stage, or juggling in a living room (sorry mom!) I would like to think I have learned a couple of...
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5 Steps for Handling Mistakes on Stage
In one of my past lives, I was an actress (okay, I did high school theatre). The four years I did theatre have helped me enormously with my pole routines. I learned to be comfortable onstage and how to be expressive in a way that translates to the audience and tells a...
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