Ladies (and gents) we love supporting our students and instructors, almost ALL whom have competed and won levels of competitions and live performances around the nation!Each of us has gotten into Pole Fitness for many different reasons, you know yours, and it's beautiful. It's personal! Some of us share, some of us don't, some compete, some don't. Whatever you're reason, it's now become a popular sport of flexibility and strength, in homes, suburbs, and businesses like never before.
We know not ALL of us have to compete to enjoy our "sport", so just dance like no one is looking and if you want more tips and support, or if you do make the decision to perform and compete, check out our tips here, and keep perfecting you're sport with flair and individuality.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Many ladies out there now are hoping to get to Tokyo by winning the American Pole Fitness championship in October, in NYC. Good luck to our own ladies there, Zoraya and Pantera! September will host the Miss Pole Dance Canada, in Vancouver, and Zurich will head up the World Pole Sport & Fitness Competition in October. Where ever you are in the world, there is opportunity to build some of your own routines and get involved in whatever level you see fit! Did I mention it's personal?
If you're looking to become competitive or create a jump in this sport, take a look at some of our TIPS.
T.I.P.S - STRENGTH & FLEXIBILITY
- Core and strength is best perfected on a static pole
- Perfect techniques preferably barefoot for strength via class, private instruction, DVD's and seminars
- If you get injured, strained or sprained, take time off and HEAL, don't push your body, it performs best with some rest.
- Work on shoulder strength with handstands, pull up, and free weights, your arms and core are your static hold strength.
- Work your way through local competitions to national and international gaining recognition and more room to gain sponsors
- Seek sponsorship to train full time and represent some great companies in the meantime.
- Check the rules. Competitions may have different rules, our industry is changing with regulations, accreditations etc.
- Lastly, keep an open mind. If you do, so will others!
Take a look at the following tips for winning best pole tricks! (a title currently held by our lovely PANTERA, in the studio this week.)
- Unique consecutive combinations of 3 or more moves.
- Demonstrating
- Extreme flexibility.
- Strength.
- Courage.
- Continual variety of moves on the poles.
- To include the spinny pole and static poles.
- Using full height and circumference of the poles.
- Demonstrating moves from both left and right hand lead.
- To include inverts at all levels on the pole.
- Static pole poses, vertically and horizontally.
- Variation of speeds, slow controlled and fast motion.
- Fluid transitions.
- Pole tricks to include the use of no hands.
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