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About the Easy Pole Dancing web siteEasy Pole Dancing aims to provide useful information and help to everyone interested in learning about pole dancing. Whether you are a professional pole dancer or a pole dancing beginner looking for a pole dance workout, this site aims to help you fulfil your goals. |
Pole dancing is coming out of the shadows of the sex industry and is now being recognised as a great fun loving form of exercise.
Easy Pole Dancing aims to introduce and highlight the very best of the pole dancing industry. Whether it's information, books, videos or even a pole, you will find it on the following pages
Enjoy the website, particuarly the detailed instruction video :) and have fun with your pole dancing whether for fun, fitness or professionally. |
Advanced pole dancing requires significant strength, flexibility and endurance. The pole dancer may simply hold on to the pole, or use it to perform more athletic moves on the pole such as climbs, spins, and body inversions. The pole dancers upper body and core strength are important to moving around the pole in a fluid way and this takes time to develop. Pole dancing is now recognized as a form of both aerobic and anaerobic workout exercise. There are now pole dancing schools and qualifications being developed as pole dancing increases in popularity. The standard dance pole is usually a hollow circular steel or brass pole, running from floor to ceiling. Fixing the dance pole to the ceiling provides greater stability, but is not always necessary. The diameter of the dance pole is usually around 5 cm (2 inches), allowing it to be gripped by the dancer comfortably with one hand. In Asia, the diameter of the dancepole is usually slightly smaller at 45 mm or less. Another variation of the dance pole is the spinning pole. This is similar to a standard dance pole but the pole spins freely on ball bearings. This form of dance pole creates better momentum and the pole spins faster to create a more dramatic effect. There are even specialist show poles that are primarily used in clubs to provide visual effects. These dance poles are made from clear plastics and contain water, glitter, and even special reflective materials which stands out with strobe lighting. These dance poles have the disadvantage that they bend slightly and create a friction burn when sliding down them with any sort of speed.
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Some Interesting Pole Dancing Facts - Courtesy of the Easy Pole Dancing team |
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| Pole Dance Fact #1 | Pole dancing originated in the 1920's in travelling fairs during the height of the American depression. |
| Pole Dance Fact #2 | The term Pole dancing comes from the centre pole of the tent, around which the dancing was focussed. |
| Pole Dance Fact #3 | Pole dancing slowly moved from the tents to the burlesque bars in the 1950's |
| Pole Dance Fact #4 | The term Hoochi Coochi comes from the hip movement performed by the travelling Hochi Coochi dancers, the equivalent of the erotic pole dancers 'bump and grind' of today. |
| Pole Dance Fact #5 | In the 1980's pole dancing and striptease became popular in bars and clubs in Canada and then moved to the USA. |
| Pole Dance Fact #6 | In 1990 pole dancing began its journey to respectability when the first instructional DVD on pole dancing and fitness was produced. |
| Pole Dance Fact #7 | Over the last few years Pole dancing has evolved and developed into a number different forms including pole exercises and workouts; exotic pole dancing and pole fitness. |
| Pole Dance Fact #8 | Pole dancing is very similar to Mallakhamb which is a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs poses and feats while hanging from a vertical wooden pole or rope. |
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There are a large number of formalised and named pole dance moves such as Rising Lady and Superman Spin |
Pole dancing has now shed its seedy image and become accepted as a reputable form of dance fitness and exercise that can be enjoyed by everyone. |
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