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1. Holy shit, strippers earn every dime they make and THEN SOME. That class kicked my ass, and it was an intro class. We learned a little floor work, two spins (fireman's spin and ballerina spin, both demonstrated competantly if unsexily on Youtube) and also how to undulate down the pole until you're lying on your back on the floor, which is loads of fun, incredibly sexy, and ridiculously challenging to do. For realz, I will NEVER look down on strippers who do intricate pole work. I have a dance background (ballet, jazz, bellydancing) and that's the only thing that saved me in this class.
2. Maybe I'll finally get those cut upper arms I've been dying for since like 2004.
3. CRAP, that metal pole burns when you try to slide down it! We learned how to hook our foot and hang onto the pole with our knees, and OWWWW. The instructor told us you get used to it quickly, and she's right -- even by the end of the class it was better, but the first time it feels like the hide's being rubbed off you is almost enough to make you quit in the first ten minutes.
4. There's a real art to the transitions between tricks, when you're doing floor work or getting back up for another twirl on the pole without looking robotic or stilted. Real strippers, who do this for an entire show in heels while also removing clothing, make it look easy, but that's the thing about any art form -- the experts make it look easy when its not.
5. My ridiculously gorgeous and intimidatingly buff instructor has only been pole dancing for FOUR YEARS. She said she's studied dance for years before that, but holy shit, if she can become an expert in four years, surely to God I can at least become competent.
2. Maybe I'll finally get those cut upper arms I've been dying for since like 2004.
3. CRAP, that metal pole burns when you try to slide down it! We learned how to hook our foot and hang onto the pole with our knees, and OWWWW. The instructor told us you get used to it quickly, and she's right -- even by the end of the class it was better, but the first time it feels like the hide's being rubbed off you is almost enough to make you quit in the first ten minutes.
4. There's a real art to the transitions between tricks, when you're doing floor work or getting back up for another twirl on the pole without looking robotic or stilted. Real strippers, who do this for an entire show in heels while also removing clothing, make it look easy, but that's the thing about any art form -- the experts make it look easy when its not.
5. My ridiculously gorgeous and intimidatingly buff instructor has only been pole dancing for FOUR YEARS. She said she's studied dance for years before that, but holy shit, if she can become an expert in four years, surely to God I can at least become competent.
