Thanks for the reply ladies, I was just curious. Maybe when I was 20 I could have done some of hte tricks you ladies make look so effortless but at 51 I think I am a bit late to start learning.![]()



Thanks for the reply ladies, I was just curious. Maybe when I was 20 I could have done some of hte tricks you ladies make look so effortless but at 51 I think I am a bit late to start learning.![]()
Anyone with a memory should be very humble.





Not really, Mark. I have worked a club where the pole wobbled slightly at the top, but we all knew that and just worked around it.
I did have a good freind and travelling buddy die on the pole. She climbed to the top, like sixteen feet, and she was sliding down upside down and hit a slippery spot and fell and broke her neck.
Since then, I don't do any high in the air upside down tricks...
Lena



Lena, I am so sorry to hear about your friend. That had to be horrible.
Anyone with a memory should be very humble.
Lena, that is awful. I am sorry to hear that. I guess we all should remember that it can be really dangerous.
As for Pole Tricks there is a similar thread elsewhere, about Pole Lessons, which I have just posted on so I hope you don't think I'm repeating myself.
I have Fawnia's polework dvd, and I got it from the mypole website. They do send stuff to the states and are very quick. The dvd is good but I found that I could only do a few of the tricks - Fawnia is so strong that she makes them look easy, but they're not!
You could also have a look at this for some tricks:
A shameless plug, I'm afraid! Sorry!
OMG, Lena! That is horrible. Did the club take any responsibility of offer any compensation? In our club, we sign a statement saying we understand that the poles are "for decoration only" and if we get hurt it is our own problem.




Mark, I'm almost that age. If you've kept yourself in shape over the years, you're never too late.Thanks for the reply ladies, I was just curious. Maybe when I was 20 I could have done some of hte tricks you ladies make look so effortless but at 51 I think I am a bit late to start learning.![]()
Has anyone purchased or heard anything good/bad about Fawnia's latest video, it's the advanced pole work and fire dvd???





Well, while it's certainly true that you don't need the pole to be sexy, it does get the customers' attention--and that will make you money, every time.
I always talk up a woman who works the pole--and if they are really good, they get the title "Princess of the Pole"--there have been three of these. Only one woman has been Queen of the Pole--Fawn.
You better believe they like the attention they get from this--and that it pays.
I haven't seen the Fawnia video, but I'd love to check it out--I'd love to see if she does the trick I can do, since I've never seen anyone else who could.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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And what trick would that be Djoser?
I consider myself a pole diva in training. It's a lot of hard work, but I love the challenge, not to mention it's great exercise. Honestly, it's apart of who I am on stage, but I admit it's not a necessity for me to make money.





Well, it's not a sexy one like you dancers do, lol...
I grip the pole with my right hand low on the pole, fingers pointing to the floor/stage whatever. The left hand is high as possible, but the right does all the work.
Then I flip up and put my toe on the ceiling where the pole goes into it. The other toe goes out fairly far on the ceiling to get something to push from--if there are those damned ceiling tiles it's a bit trickier, you have to find the little plastic supports intersection or you'll kick out the damned tile.
Then I push on it and spin around upside down. If there's a regular ceiling it's easier and it looks like I am walking around upside down.
Coming down I try to do the "flag in the wind' thing a gymnast friend of mine showed me, but I am too tall and my arms too long to go out at 90 degrees--he did it better but he was short--I've got over eight feet with my arms outstretched. I can do it at an angle and this looks pretty cool.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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