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    Just curious how long did it take you veterans to master pole dancing and if you weren't super sexy and super flexi how long into dancing did it take? and what did you do to get there other than working your shift. I am used to dancing clubstyle I can do some booty shaking but I'm not flexible and I don't feel I've mastered sexy yet although my bf disagrees, as he should lol. I'm So nervous but so anxious to carry the "I'm a sexy flexi pole swinging ass clapping dollar stacking exotic dancer" confidence that all the vets carry.

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    Watch YouTube videos and record yourself practicing so you can play it back and see how it looks and what you could do better.

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    I still haven't even close to mastered it and I've been dancing for five years. Some people just don't move that way... I can do a basic twirl around a (spinning) pole, but usually don't because I always wear stockings and get scared of not getting a good grip. Lol some people just aren't cut out for dancing -- I just smile, make a lot of eye contact, look like I'm having fun, interact with customers -- I've learned you don't have to DANCE sexy to BE sexy. My confidence on stage doesn't come from being a good dancer, it comes from knowing (a) I've got a great body and (b) I'm no longer afraid of getting vertigo on stage from being too close to the ceiling and falling in my heels (which took probably 6 months to a year.... No lie.)

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    I had no idea how to dance when I started. I'd read some stuff on SW that advocated moving really really slowly, but I had never even been in a strip club before I auditioned, and this was before Youtube was really big. I looked for stripper dance videos and all I found were porn clips. >.<

    So basically I did the monkey-see, monkey-awkwardly-try-to-replicate method of learning to dance. It took ... a lot of time. But eventually I mastered a handful of moves and transitions, and voila! Bonafide stripper. I think that's how most of us learned - just by getting out there night after night learning and practicing. You may be able to find some ladies at your club who can give you pointers. I was always too shy to ask.

    Exotic dance and pole work classes are pretty popular right now, and even some smaller towns now have studios that offer lessons. If that's available to you, consider taking a few classes to help get a feel for how to move.

    Edited to add: I am hilariously bad at dancing otherwise. I can't club dance, slow dance -- hell I can barely Hokey Pokey. So if I can learn, anyone can!

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    My background is athletic, but it's not in dance. Also, I couldn't walk in stilettos. Pole tricks became my focus as I found them not only easier than dancing, but safer - & a helluva lot more entertaining for myself. (Whatever gets ya thru the nite sm times.) Over the time I've been doing this, my actual dancing has improved, I guess by stripper standards, but I would be utterly lost in a normal club or anywhere else w/o a pole.

    I think that sm times girls tend to overthink things. I tried a pole dancing class once, just to see if I could find a way of improving my actual dance skills. Discovered that it wasn't my cup of tea, & that I did a lot better just getting up on stage & doing whatever felt right to me. I found my flow eventually.

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    i've only been dancing three months and i work in a club where pole tricks are the norm. what i did was started out working day shifts and asked several girls how to do a couple simple spins. because it's slow and you go onstage MANY times, it helped a lot. i've been going on nightshift more now and admit that i do feel self conscious going up after some girls who can do AMAZING pole tricks, so i've found that it's easier to just do more floor work and really pay special attention to the customers who sit near the stage. even if it's just crawling around and smiling/making eye contact with them, it goes a long way. i've asked a lot of customers if they care about pole tricks and most say no. as for the flexibility, i've never been very flexible @ all but with time it just comes naturally. i've been hitting the gym more and because of this job find more motivation to STRETCH before and after -- three months in and i can almost do the splits both ways :]
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    i learned how to do floor-work really well in about 2 months, i was getting good at the pole within 3 or 4 but then i switched clubs and they didn't have the practice stage..so yeah, I'm thinking about taking classes. got the basics down, just need to learn some fancy shit!
    i think dancing/floor work is more important than the pole, just learning how to make every movement fluid and sexy

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    @simone is so right about fluid and sexy. a very basic move can look either awkward or incredibly seductive depending on how fluid you go into the transition. that's something i'm still working on and i find it difficult because it HURTS doing floor work on that marble stage.
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    did you encounter a lot of falls/pole fails. I thought that practicing at work was fine until I heard horrifying polefail stories.

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    @simone this is another thing I was worried about achieving. I can dance rhythm wise but sexy and fluid is another story.

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    well, everybody has their own style, and you'll find yours and perfect it, don't worry..like i need to work on smiling on stage more! i look too grumpy i hear, but i love dancing so ill concentrate too much on that, and not on the custys around me sometimes

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    If you're going for a lot of acrobatics, gravity will occasionally catch up w/ you. I've had a couple occasions where it was basically fatigue+sweat+my natural clumsiness/not-quite-mastered-new-trick=THUD. I don't do a lot of 'drop' type pole tricks just b/c of this, but when I do get an increase in attention after a spill, as I've said before that's when I hit up my audience for hazard pay.

    ETA In case the subject of falls leads to the subject of injuries, I've only had one potentially serious fall, when a drunk aggressive customer grabbed me onstage when I was hanging by one leg. I landed on my shoulder & narrowly missed crunching my neck, but that's another story. My injuries have mainly been pulled/torn muscles, both from pole & floorwork. My main point here is just to say, stretch & warmup well before you go onstage every nite, & take it kinda easy until your muscles loosen up.

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