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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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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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What Cross Training Will Help My Pole Dancing?
There is one question you can hear echoed from studio to studio in the pole dancing world. Everyone wants to know: “what cross training will help my pole dancing the most?” The goal, many times, is to refine our art and feel stronger, feel empowered, and feel on top...
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Does Pole Dancing Stop Hurting?
If you’ve been poling for a while, chances are you remember those first few classes where everything hurt! Holy cow, how did the instructor do a pole sit without cringing? Now, if you’re more advanced, chances are your basic climb doesn’t give you any trouble, and...
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Inverted Crucifix Tutorial
Hello everyone! Welcome to our Inverted Crucifix tutorial. We’ll walk you through each step from arm position, to getting your legs up and around the pole, and making sure you are secure so you can let your arms go with confidence. If you aren’t familiar with...
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All About Tendonitis
Tendonitis is an injury of the tendons near a joint. In pole dancing, this injury affects most commonly the elbow joint or shoulder, however, it can also happen with the knee, wrist, or calf. This is an unfortunately common injury in the pole dancing community, and...
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