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Pole dancing in the Olympics
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I enjoy mainly the artistic and expressive side of pole and I feel that it compares to cirque or ballet, I feel it would take something away from the art to over standardise. I agree that pole 'language' needs to be universal but there are too many combinations possible, I mean, the Mongolians have 300 words to describe horse colour…Pole is a little like that, there are lots of beautiful variations.
I feel it would make pole more elitist and more intimidating to older ladies and gents who would wish to take it up. I love how with pole literally anyone can give it a go, and the community welcomes them. I wouldn't want this to be lost.
For some reason imagining olympic polers just makes me a little sad.
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Whether a sport is late or early specialization is largely controlled by the code of points and the sport's origins. Since the optimal window of trainability for strength in females is toward the end of PHV (Peak Height Velocity – the primary growth spurt-in girls between the ages if 14 and 18) As a result my guess is that Olympic level polers would likely be between 17 and 28.
So a fifteen year old would be in the "Training to Compete" (http://www.canadiansportforlife.ca/default.aspx?PageID=1017&LangID=en) stage of Long Term Athlete Development. So you're right Cianara, but she would just be starting to specilize.
I also agree that a lot of the athletes in Pole Sport would be athletes moving on from others at first but at the same time as the sport grew you'd see more exculsive Pole Athletes who started from the beggining heading down that path.
A little off topic but are you a Trampoliner Cianara? if so GIANT props to you! I'm terrified of the trampline at my gym (it bites lol)
I think people should accept the relationship between artistic/cirque Pole Dance and Competitive Pole Sport as what it is and not be so quick to trash the other. I'm an elite level competive Vaulter, does that mean I can't apriciate and learn from the things that that the cirque bareback riders learn to do? no of course not!! in fact one of my idols is a man who spent his youth in the competitive stream and decided to make a career in the performance side of things. We just have to accept that Pole Dance and Pole Sport are sisters and love them for who they are.
These athletes are very artistic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSBKIUfvtw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brJ_fGHH3Ks
And these artists are very athletic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztXmzMvSXZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mrjd84PzSo
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I don't feel anyone here was Trashing any one…….https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
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Yep, I used to do trampolining, but my progress was severely limited by the fear factor. And I must admit, my experiences in trampolining make me a little emotional about the Olympics issue.
When I started there were a lot of people in their late teens, and a few adults and we were all really great friends, though the standard of trampolining was not that great. I had a tough time in high school, so I have some really fond memories of the friendships I made.
Then we had a new coach come from overseas and start making the sport very serious. Now anyone over the age of about 15 is made to feel very unwelcome, because they're taking up valuable trampolining time that could go to the "serious" competitors. So the average age of trampolinists is like, 12, which makes you feel a bit creepy and weird. Plus, if I didn't want to compete, I was only able to attend one 90 minute class per week, at one location in the whole state and no more. It just killed all the fun out of the sport.
But anyway, I hope it didn't come off as though I was trashing pole fitness (maybe I was trashing gymnastics a little…sorry), because the two types of pole dance seem to really just come down to dance styles, trick choices and costumes with a lot of blurriness between the two. So I love both, in as far as I can tell them apart 🙂
My only real concern is that there is sometimes an undercurrent (mainly on youtube, not here) of "We're not strippers, we're athletes" as though strippers or poledancers in clubs are inferior or trashy, and I would be concerned that if pole dancing became an Olympic sport it could further marginalise women who work in that industry.
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