Results 1 to 20 of 20

Thread: New stages with no tip rails!?

  1. #1
    Member Page's Avatar
    Joined
    Sep 2002
    Posts
    23
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default New stages with no tip rails!?

    deleted
    Last edited by Page; 03-31-2010 at 09:10 PM.

  2. #2
    God/dess Bridgette's Avatar
    Joined
    Apr 2002
    Location
    Gettin the fuck outta Dodge!
    Posts
    14,241
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    In my experience, the tiprail is getting more and more rare. I don't even remember working a stage with a padded tiprail, and I am far from being a newbie. Where on earth is this padded tiprail?

    Quote Originally Posted by pheno View Post
    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

  3. #3
    God/dess MrChristopher's Avatar
    Joined
    Jul 2004
    Location
    philadelphia suburbs (delaware, actually)
    Posts
    4,857
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    i have never worked in a club with a "padded" tiprail either. sounds wierd to me. i see the purpose it would serve, but i have never seen one, ever. and i have been doing this for almost 12 years.
    waffles are just pancakes with little squares on them.

  4. #4
    Banned Katrine's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2003
    Posts
    13,855
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    A padded tiprail, that would be tight!!!

    If you no longer have it, just make sure that you collect the money after each customer has deposited as much as you can I guess.....the few clubs I've worked with a tip rail, I just made sure that I knew the song well enough to know that the last 30 seconds, I would just walk around and grab the tips from stage....

    "Have you ever been to American wedding? Where is the vodka, where's marinated herring?" - GB
    "And do the cats give a shit? No, they do not. Why? Because they're cats."-from The Onion

    Quote Originally Posted by Mia M
    If a cupcake was tossed at me... well, I'd only be upset if it missed my mouth

  5. #5
    Featured Member CrescentLuna's Avatar
    Joined
    Jan 2004
    Location
    Upstate NY
    Posts
    1,146
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 5 Times in 3 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    Two out of the three places I've worked have no rails, or even raised surface - just deposit the money in your garter or whatever and periodically push it to a corner of the stage. It is sucky, but sneaky customers try anything.
    "I still have my name
    I still have my face
    I have not run away from home
    Doesn't seem so long
    If I now embrace
    Every single thing I've never known"

  6. #6
    Veteran Member Emiliana's Avatar
    Joined
    Dec 2004
    Location
    Austin,TX
    Posts
    528
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    padding huh that would be cool...our stages are just a straight up wooden platform with a metal rail all the way around..there is nowhere for drinks or anything

  7. #7
    Veteran Member DJ_WuLf's Avatar
    Joined
    Jan 2003
    Location
    St Louis Mo.
    Posts
    341
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    Padded tip rails/stage edges must be a midwest thing as alot of clubs here have them. Also they have a drink ledge but its usually 6-8 inches below stage level. I can't imagine having a drink ledge only ONE INCH below stage level. I bet alot of drinks get kicked over there.

    Flat stages usually have a brass rail inset 6 inches to seperate dances from drinks.

    Insurance regualtions used to require a rail or buffer pad of some sort but that has changed in recent years. The flat NO Rail look is considered more modern and is also cheaper so get used to it.
    14 years working in Strip Clubs. "What a long strange trip it's been"

  8. #8
    Featured Member tampadancer's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2004
    Location
    tampa
    Posts
    1,582
    Thanks
    178
    Thanked 394 Times in 179 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    what is this "tip rail" that you speak of?? haha... I've never had the luxury. AND padded?? girls, we are getting screwed here... my knees have to take a daily beating on the stage surface.

  9. #9
    Veteran Member
    Joined
    Jun 2003
    Posts
    358
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    In order to prevent customers from being sneaky, you girls should all begin wearing garters. Put it around your thigh, and everytime a customer tips you on stage, put the money in your garter. If you want to keep him from being touchy, dance a little further away from him on the stage. Or simply tell someone when they try to do something that makes you uncomfortable..."Hey, don't do that please"

  10. #10
    Veteran Member DeepGreen's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2004
    Location
    Rhode Island
    Posts
    348
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    Quote Originally Posted by Brittany
    In order to prevent customers from being sneaky, you girls should all begin wearing garters. Put it around your thigh, and everytime a customer tips you on stage, put the money in your garter. If you want to keep him from being touchy, dance a little further away from him on the stage. Or simply tell someone when they try to do something that makes you uncomfortable..."Hey, don't do that please"
    Another tactic I've seen in the club I frequent is for dancers to take the tips from customers (either from the rail or from a garter, etc.) and casually toss the bills towards the middle or back of the stage. This puts them out of reach of sneaky customers, but they don't have to worry about dancing with a wad of bills stashed all over their garter. At the end of their time on stage they quickly collect the bills and leave. Of course, that only works if you are alone on stage...
    There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss... --RENT

    Do not taunt happy fun ball.

  11. #11
    God/dess
    Joined
    May 2004
    Posts
    6,336
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 11 Times in 7 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    Quote Originally Posted by DeepGreen
    Another tactic I've seen in the club I frequent is for dancers to take the tips from customers (either from the rail or from a garter, etc.) and casually toss the bills towards the middle or back of the stage. This puts them out of reach of sneaky customers, but they don't have to worry about dancing with a wad of bills stashed all over their garter. At the end of their time on stage they quickly collect the bills and leave. Of course, that only works if you are alone on stage...
    Yup, a quick kick works well. Helps get them all centrally located too.
    Never have I been to a club that has rails. Or drink ledges. Customers just throw bills on stage in front of their seats, which are hard to receive gracefully. Some girls make it seem like they are picking up random bits of trash from the floor. Which is why the gentle and subtle "push-to pile" move is great.



    Because there ain't no tits on the radio

  12. #12
    God/dess VADEN's Avatar
    Joined
    May 2004
    Location
    Florida
    Posts
    3,530
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    I don't have a tip rail in my club.




  13. #13
    God/dess RedZ28's Avatar
    Joined
    Oct 2004
    Location
    New Jersey
    Posts
    2,519
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    Tip rail, what are those? I think the only place that may have had one...don't really remember...is Crazy Horse in Myrtle Beach, SC.

  14. #14
    God/dess doc-catfish's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2002
    Location
    123 Tornado Alley Way, Hooterville USA
    Posts
    6,322
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 36 Times in 30 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    I use the term "tip rail" to describe the perimeter of the stage. In some cases there is an actual rail, in some cases a raised area of about 1-2" around the perimeter which is sometimes padded or carpeted.

    In most cases I've seen nothing, except for the drink ledge. One club here has an actual rail, and I believe Bazooka's in Kansas City does as well.

    Perhaps this would best be illustrated with pictures:

    Stages with an actual brass tiprail (don't worry, those plants were just for a photo shoot).
    http://1mbh.com/L2.gif
    http://www.solidgoldvip.com/images/club/SGstage.jpg

    This seems to show a "padded" tiprail (not up front, look back towards the wider part of the stage)
    http://beansnappers.com/images/insidepic1.gif

    A stage with an raised tip rail
    http://www.bizzos.org/dasefx/pole.jpg

    The bare edged stage most of us are probably used to seeing
    http://www.studio10.ca/images/Dscf00362.jpg
    http://www.sapphirelasvegas.com/even.../lightwall.jpg
    Former SCJ now in rehab.

  15. #15
    Newbie Kittykitty's Avatar
    Joined
    Dec 2004
    Location
    Pittsburgh, Pa
    Posts
    7
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    My club has a flat stage and a drink rail about 6-8 inches below it. we have a very large long main stage with 3 poles so we cant put our money somewhere on stage. i wouldnt anyways. we all wear garters, most of us wrap it around our ankle, because its tighter and most of us wear 2, this way money rarely if ever has a chance to fall out. we put the garter around our ankle first then cross it and put it around our shoe so its kind of like an 8, with the bottom of the 8 tightly around your foot and shoe. ive worked with tip rails once and i loved it then, now i find it a pain, its just something in my way. love it with out! check out what my clubs stage looks like at *but im not on there *

  16. #16
    Glamazon
    Guest

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    Quote Originally Posted by hardkandee
    Yup, a quick kick works well.
    I thought at first you meant to kick the customer trying to steal! LOL, I kicked someone that grabbed money off my stage last weekend. I warned him, and he did it again, looked at me and said "What you got?" I replied, "More than you!"

    Oh, and at my first club, we did have a padded tip rail, not sure if they still do. Having worked at many clubs where stage is not even 1/4 of my income, I prefer folks don't sit at my stage. I just like to do my set and not be interrupted by some guy who thinks $1 is a pot of gold and then complains if I don't give him a "good" dance.

  17. #17
    God/dess Malibu's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2003
    Location
    UK
    Posts
    2,117
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 14 Times in 10 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    Ha! In the good ol' UK, most folks don't even know what a tip is, never mind a tip rail! I think when Spearmint Rhino first started here, they constructed tip rails by most of their stages. It was nice, but it's still rare and even rarer to get people to tip at them.
    You are the envy
    of all parallel lines that
    dream of curves and convergence
    - Sara Bailey: Sieve of Words

  18. #18
    Senior Member JadeBrooklyn's Avatar
    Joined
    Jul 2004
    Location
    Wilmington, NC
    Posts
    188
    Thanks
    1
    Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
    My Mood
    Cheerful

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    my club doesnt hagve em, ive danced where they do and yes there is more of a chance of a guy getting handsy but they tend to like the view better. i prefer it without them.
    Carpe Diem!

  19. #19
    Veteran Member scarlett623's Avatar
    Joined
    Dec 2003
    Location
    Detroit, MI.
    Posts
    225
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    My club has a long runway style stage so I don't like to just leave money on the floor. Too many losers out there who would snatch back a dollar so they could give it to you again! I loop it around my left middle finger, waitress style. I don't wear a garter so that's out. Also, in Detroit, we don't really dance for the customers to take a tip. I've been to other states where the dancer has to give the customer a mini dance from stage to collect a tip. Here we are collecting the tip more as an approval of the stage show we are already doing. I hold the front of my g-string with my left hand (to prevent any inadverdant peeking) and pull out the right side strap of my g-string to collect the tip. I also always smile, say thank you, and give them a little kiss on the cheek. Let's them get a whiff of the vanilla perfume oil I wear and gets me dances more often than not. Rails would get in the way of that and I like to get more personal and less off in my own world while on stage.

  20. #20
    Veteran Member julzgulz's Avatar
    Joined
    Oct 2004
    Location
    California
    Posts
    314
    Thanks
    5
    Thanked 47 Times in 18 Posts

    Default Re: New stages with no tip rails!?

    Wow, I've never seen a tip rail until those pictures. I always slip my tips in my purse even when I'm onstage, I don't always trust the other dancers. Plus I had a young guy tip me and when he walked away I realised he had tricked me, instead he pulled out all my tips...which is why I slip them in my purse ASAP.

Similar Threads

  1. The Stages Of Cam.
    By BuffyFlame in forum Other Work
    Replies: 20
    Last Post: 12-11-2010, 06:12 PM
  2. Off the rails
    By traceyb in forum The Lounge
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 03-31-2010, 06:28 AM
  3. Replies: 50
    Last Post: 04-24-2007, 05:34 PM
  4. if i dont do stages...
    By Malvina in forum Newbie Board
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 10-02-2006, 10:07 PM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •