Monetize Your Pole Dance Skills
Many of us started pole dancing purely out of passion. As the love for pole dancing grew and the pole dance industry started to develop, many pole dancers wanted to make a career out of it. There are many ways…
Many of us started pole dancing purely out of passion. As the love for pole dancing grew and the pole dance industry started to develop, many pole dancers wanted to make a career out of it. There are many ways…
Yep, that’s correct. There will be TWO PoleCons in 2025! PoleCon 2025 will be held at Live! Hotel and Casino Maryland from May 29-June 1, 2025 PoleCon: West 2025 will be held at Hyatt Regency Denver at Convention Center from…
❓Why is posture important? Or perhaps more accurately; “how we can use looking at static posture to help us understand how our body is moving or not moving from a wholistic perspective.” Think of static posture as the body’s alignment…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More than a thousand pole dancers, including people of all genders, all ages, backgrounds, and body shapes gather for the 12th annual International Pole Convention—or simply “PoleCon”—at the Maryland Live! Hotel and Casino June 15-18! Open to…
In our last blog we talked about what to look for in a pole student as a new student. Link Now that you’ve decided to try a studio—What makes you stay there? The following 3 things can be hard to…
The hardest thing to do in pole is to walk through the door of a studio for the first time. It can be scary, daunting? and outright confusing. If you’re lucky enough to have multiple studio options available to you,…
What is an isometric movement? Let’s look at a bicep curl. In a bicep curl, you are bending and straightening your elbow. There are three types of muscle contractions that happen in the bicep curl: Concentric: the bicep muscle (on…
Loss of overhead motion of the shoulder that you perceive as “pinching on the top of the shoulder.” Your shoulder motion comes from several joints - not just the ball & socket of the shoulder (aka the glenohumeral joint). There…
(also posted on the IPIA website) We held the third annual Virtual PoleCon Saturday October 22, 2022, to a small but enthusiastic, virtual crowd! This event was born during the pandemic and has changed in all three of its incarnations…
One of my favorite things about learning & teaching pole dancing is the sense of community. I live in Los Angeles, which is car-centric beyond all reason, and I really think that's one of the reasons why it's so hard…