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Pole Dancing as an Olympic Sport
I know that some pole dance federations have petitioned for consideration of the 2012 Olympics in London. I've hear that the sport has enough international competitions to qualify, and now it's a matter of public acceptance. I think it's really cool that pole dancing as a skill and maybe a sport can find acceptance outside the club circuit, and that people can see how much strength and power you need to be good at it. I would really love to see some of my more talented co workers kick into serious training mode. How should the case for pole dancing be made? Should we fight to be in the Olympics?
How does pole dancing affect your body? your confidence? What does it mean to you to be a strong woman?
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If other types of dancing were in the olympics I'd be for it...
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pole dancing has its place and its not in the olympics,the olympics are for professional athletes who dedicate their lives and train for hours a day usualy from childhood(no doubt someone wil claim lapdancers are athelets but they aren't!), it definately wouldn't get into the 2012 olympics anyway its far to late to be considered.
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Pole Dancing does not have to be related to stripping. Gyms are trying to break that stigma. It is very popular and a very good way to get great looking arms and legs! I would lovvveeee to see this as a olympic sport. I kick ass in it, and seen many amazing girls do amazing tricks....and all I can say is....I want to see more!
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Ballroom dancing is an Olympic sport right now, and I know that pole dancers who compete that practice upwards of 5 hrs per day. I too have seen many amazing dancer pull some amazing moves, and I'm so impressed with their skill & I don't just want to see more, I want the world to see what dancers are capable of. You know?
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ballroom dancing is not an olmpic sport right now and it looks very unlikely it will be as they want to reduce the number of sports and other sports such as cricket would much more likely to be approved by a federation!
here are a list of sports.
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BlackoutBetty
and I know that pole dancers who compete that practice upwards of 5 hrs per day.
Can you name drop any? Id love to know who trains 5 hours a day (I heard Felix does), to find out would be inspiring.
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Irena
pole dancing has its place and its not in the olympics,the olympics are for professional athletes who dedicate their lives and train for hours a day usualy from childhood(no doubt someone wil claim lapdancers are athelets but they aren't!), it definately wouldn't get into the 2012 olympics anyway its far to late to be considered.
There are people that do dedicate their lives to training in this sport. It is called Pole Dancing...not Lap Dancing. They are not the same things and when people do what you just did by putting the two together like that, it takes away from the athletic ability of those that work very hard for the sport. And seriously board games like Chess isn't a sport but is considered one by sports channels. Why is this any different? Because chess is socially acceptable and Pole Dancing is not. It is what it is, Dancing. Note it isn't called Pole Strip Tease. It's called Pole Dancing, and is no easy task for those of us who work hard to do what we are capable of doing on that pole and in no way should be talked down because it is done in strip clubs. There are people out there that are amazing at Pole Dancing, that were never strippers. And I'm sure they would appreciate if people would stop grouping the two together. Stripping and Pole Dancing may go hand in hand...in a strip club. And only a strip club. But outside of it say in a gym or at home, is completely different.
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pixierocksonthepole
There are people that do dedicate their lives to training in this sport. It is called Pole Dancing...not Lap Dancing. They are not the same things and when people do what you just did by putting the two together like that, it takes away from the athletic ability of those that work very hard for the sport. And seriously board games like Chess isn't a sport but is considered one by sports channels. Why is this any different? Because chess is socially acceptable and Pole Dancing is not. It is what it is, Dancing. Note it isn't called Pole Strip Tease. It's called Pole Dancing, and is no easy task for those of us who work hard to do what we are capable of doing on that pole and in no way should be talked down because it is done in strip clubs. There are people out there that are amazing at Pole Dancing, that were never strippers. And I'm sure they would appreciate if people would stop grouping the two together. Stripping and Pole Dancing may go hand in hand...in a strip club. And only a strip club. But outside of it say in a gym or at home, is completely different.
really people dedicate their lives to this? their whole lives like real athletes starting training from say the age of 4? 3? even 2?do they go to specialist sports schools and do extra training and squeeze the national ciriculem into the afternoon so they can train from 6 in the morning till lunch, leave the afternoon free for lessons before training again in the evening? i don't think so? yes you may get some pole dancers wjo have started it as a hobby in their adult life and yes they may spend a few hours on it a day,my cousin is a professional athlete and the amount of time he has dedicated(he started age 4) far outweighs the amount any pole dancer has done - thats the difference.
I didn't say poledancing had its place in the strip club(did i? no!) i said it had its place and be it in the gym, strip club or home it certainly isn't in the olympics so please read before trying to say i lumped the two together as i clearly didn't (that happened in your head not in what i wrote). which is why its very unlikely it will qualify for an olmpic sport.
and to answer your bizarre question about chess (which you kinda answered yourself) the sports channel probabky doesn't hink chess is a sport either they probably show it because its a very cheap programe to make and gets a fair bit of viewing!
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Irena
really people dedicate their lives to this? their whole lives like real athletes starting training from say the age of 4? 3? even 2?do they go to specialist sports schools and do extra training and squeeze the national ciriculem into the afternoon so they can train from 6 in the morning till lunch, leave the afternoon free for lessons before training again in the evening? i don't think so? yes you may get some pole dancers wjo have started it as a hobby in their adult life and yes they may spend a few hours on it a day,my cousin is a professional athlete and the amount of time he has dedicated(he started age 4) far outweighs the amount any pole dancer has done - thats the difference.
I didn't say poledancing had its place in the strip club(did i? no!) i said it had its place and be it in the gym, strip club or home it certainly isn't in the olympics so please read before trying to say i lumped the two together as i clearly didn't (that happened in your head not in what i wrote). which is why its very unlikely it will qualify for an olmpic sport.
and to answer your bizarre question about chess (which you kinda answered yourself) the sports channel probabky doesn't hink chess is a sport either they probably show it because its a very cheap programe to make and gets a fair bit of viewing!
Look, I don't need to be lectured about what constitutes as a pro-athlete. Where in any thing anywhere does it say you have to be training all day since you were a small child for it to be considered for the Olympics?? It doesn't, anywhere. You know why? Because it is based on popularity of the sport, its following and room to grow and become better and to learn new stuff from other countries. I was a national competitor in figure skating. And I trained just as much on my skating as I did on the pole. Just like other amazingly talented pole dancers do. Just because they didn't start as babies doesn't make it not a popular and growingly more popular sport that still has a fighting chance to become an Olympic sport. And yes you did lump them together. In case you didn't read your own words. Because you decided to call Pole dancers the same as Lap Dancers, and then there for lumping them together. You don't have to like it, but please just respect it for what it is. There are many pro-athletes that didn't pop out of their mother's vagina training, allright? Get over the fact that a sport can be picked up later on in life and perfected even as an adult. There is no reason to be assuming otherwise. Great for you and your cousin, thats great. But give respect to the other pro-athletes that train just as hard, even though they may have started only a few years before becoming pro. It's called natural talent. ;)
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again pixie i never said lapdancing and poledancing are the same please try to understand that becaue im sick of trying to explain it, seems i hit a raw nerve, please don't try to put words in my mouth, and also the olpmpics aren't chosen on popularity- i don't know why you would think such a thing, why do you think that?!!!!!!!!, otherwise sports such as cricket, body building, kickboxing etc would be added.
also 4 years old is hardly a baby is it! you also don't walk out of your mother's vagina, how crude! lets face it poledancing won't be getting into the olypics anytime soon, if you think that the organisers are going to choose a new sport and overlook much more popular sports which have been lobbying for a place for far longer to give pole dancing place, then you realy are naive. pole dancing isn't as popular as the community on stripper web may think there is much less stigma attached here in th uk and it is not as popular as other forms of dance.
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Irena
again pixie i never said lapdancing and poledancing are the same please try to understand that becaue im sick of trying to explain it, seems i hit a raw nerve, please don't try to put words in my mouth, and also the olpmpics aren't chosen on popularity- i don't know why you would think such a thing, why do you think that?!!!!!!!!, otherwise sports such as cricket, body building, kickboxing etc would be added.
also 4 years old is hardly a baby is it! you also don't walk out of your mother's vagina, how crude! lets face it poledancing won't be getting into the olypics anytime soon, if you think that the organisers are going to choose a new sport and overlook much more popular sports which have been lobbying for a place for far longer to give pole dancing place, then you realy are naive. pole dancing isn't as popular as the community on stripper web may think there is much less stigma attached here in th uk and it is not as popular as other forms of dance.
Crude? If you can't handle things like that then maybe you shouldn't be apart of this forum to be honest. You clearly have no clue what you are talking about. If you did you would know that we have discussed this many times on here and we are full aware how popular it really is. Just because in your world it may not be doesn't mean it isn't else where. And you don't think that there are people trying to get those sports you mentioned in the Olympics? If you think that, then you must be sheltered. Times change and so does the world with the people in it. You flat out called it lapdancing right here "(no doubt someone wil claim lapdancers are athelets but they aren't!)" Your words from your 'mouth' online in the forum for everyone to see that I wasn't taking them out of your mouth. If you do not understand what you write then do not respond. Plain and simple.
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Irena, if Id have said to you that it would be great if the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore was opening with a pole dance show, would you have called me naive?
Because its happening.
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she may be opening the, but its still not an olympic sport.
i'm sure pole dancing is popular on stripper web, the rest of the world not so much, again pixie olympic sports aren't chosen on popularity, try to remeber that.
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Its popular outside of SW also.
Besides, my piont was that without the link posted above, I doubt you would have believed that pole dancers would be opening an olympic event.
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Irena
she may be opening the, but its still not an olympic sport.
i'm sure pole dancing is popular on stripper web, the rest of the world not so much, again pixie olympic sports aren't chosen on popularity, try to remeber that.
Uh do your research sweetie before arguing with me. It has to be "If it is widely practised around the world and meets a number of criteria established by the IOC session, a recognised sport may be added to the Olympic programme on the recommendation of the IOC's Olympic Programme Commission." Pole dancing happens to be everywhere as major time competitions. Look them up. And yes it is also recognized as a sport. So yes...they are chosen on popularity.
Case closed.
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widely practiced and popular are not the same thing sweetie maybe you should do your research ad think your arguement through because your just making me laugh now! root canal fillings are widely practised still not popular,in sport curling is not very popular people dont fill out stadiums and spend hundreds of pounds on tickets because its in high demand and so popular there aren't enough seats, cricket is much more popular are practiced all over the world and its not in the olympics , also pole dancing is not all over the world it may be all over the states but there are pleanty of countries where it isn't! its not very popular in the uk, definatley not popular in most of europe, yes a few places may have it, then i have lived in several counties in asia and travelled the middle east and its non existent. again it may be recognised as a sport the likelyness of it becoming an olympic sport is so slim i will eat my hat if it does!
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Almost every country has an MPD now Irena.
And if you dont know what that means, you really shoudnt be in this debate.
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Irena
widely practiced and popular are not the same thing sweetie maybe you should do your research ad think your arguement through because your just making me laugh now! root canal fillings are widely practised still not popular,in sport curling is not very popular people dont fill out stadiums and spend hundreds of pounds on tickets because its in high demand and so popular there aren't enough seats, cricket is much more popular are practiced all over the world and its not in the olympics , also pole dancing is not all over the world it may be all over the states but there are pleanty of countries where it isn't! its not very popular in the uk, definatley not popular in most of europe, yes a few places may have it, then i have lived in several counties in asia and travelled the middle east and its non existent. again it may be recognised as a sport the likelyness of it becoming an olympic sport is so slim i will eat my hat if it does!
Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about. If you did, you wouldn't be debating something on a website you clearly don't belong on. Keep your conservation closed mind somewhere else where it will be appreciated because this is the place for you.
Look up the countries all over the world and give me solid proof they don't have pole dance competitions. You can't. You know why? Because they all do. Not to mention that you are far reaching by even talking about root canals. That has nothing to do with sports. And Cricket isn't in the Olympics because people haven't tried putting it in enough so that is anyone else's fault. We aren't talking about root canals or cricket here. We are talking about pole dancing. And if it is so "unpopular" in the UK then why does the UK have a Pole Dance Competition? http://www.misspoledance-uk.com/
Like I said before, do your research.
There is even a Pole Dance competition for Europe in general. Look this shit up before you spew out a bunch of garbage just to make it sound like you have any idea what's going on with this sport.
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very bad trolling, Irena.
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a million times pixie,widely practised and popular 2 different things how many times shall i repeat myself before you understand, so there are a few competitions whopee do still not very popular here certainly not as uch as other sports not even on the sme scale, there are competitions for almost everything, maybe you should open up a dictionary look up popular and read carefuly name a 5 places in china, iran, zimabawe, saudi arabia that have pole dancing.
again i will eat my ha when pole dancing is an olmpic sport.
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Ok, I know I'm jumping in a little late on this but seriously;
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pole dancing has its place and its not in the olympics,the olympics are for professional athletes who dedicate their lives and train for hours a day usualy from childhood
You don't think Pole dancer's are athletes? Really? Umm... have you even actually seen a professional pole dancer? Though they might not have been doing pole dancing specifically since they were pre-teen a lot of the higher level competitors do have strong backgrounds in gymnastics and other forms of highly trained dance like ballet.
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i'm sure pole dancing is popular on stripper web, the rest of the world not so much, again pixie olympic sports aren't chosen on popularity, try to remeber that.
I'm pretty sure most major cities have at least one pole dancing school. It is rapidly gaining popularity and there are numerous competitions world wide.
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widely practiced and popular are not the same thing sweetie maybe you should do your research ad think your arguement through because your just making me laugh now! (1.)root canal fillings are widely practised still not popular,in sport curling is not very popular people dont fill out stadiums and spend hundreds of pounds on tickets because its in high demand and so popular there aren't enough seats, cricket is much more popular are practiced all over the world and its not in the olympics , (2.)also pole dancing is not all over the world it may be all over the states but there are pleanty of countries where it isn't! its not very popular in the uk, definatley not popular in most of europe, yes a few places may have it, then i have lived in several counties in (3.)asia and travelled the middle east and its non existent. again it may be recognised as a sport the likelyness of it becoming an olympic sport is so slim (4.)i will eat my hat if it does!
1. This analogy is completely irrelevant to this debate.
2. The x-pole, the most widely used and trusted portable, professional pole brand in the UK, States, Australia and probably several other countries is MADE in the UK! There are multiple pole dance schools all over the UK as well as competitions. I lived there two years, it's VERY popular AND widely practiced there. Where in the UK do you live? I'm guessing under a rock somewhere.
3. Japan holds major international pole dancing competitions, as previously mentioned pole dancing will be opening the Singapore youth Olympics, an Australian pole dancing school has recently branched out to Singapore and Malaysia. It might not be in EVERY country worldwide but do you think people who live in the middle of Africa or the Middle East widely practice swimming?
4. Can it be a cyanide hat?
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They have horizontal bar gymnastics in the Olympics, why not vertical?