[mel919]

I just recently started to expose my facebook "friends" to the fact that I pole.. starting out with my place of employment (a pole studio in town).. then slowly but surely pictures of tasteful tricks and even aerial silks photos to sort of lighten the blow.

I found myself spending about an hour perusing youtube looking at "pole fitness in the news" just to see how different regions accept it. Overall, it's amazing how under-informed the public is about it. Even on an episode of the Anderson Cooper show, about the childrens' pole classes, it's like they weren't even given a fair chance to defend what it really is.

I'm sure everyone on this site can vouch for the fact that people "just don't get it".. and it's a shame. one day though!!! 🙂

[mel919]

good point… I love crowd-pleasing though! haha. I've been in one competition prior to this one, and my song choice was definitely desperate. Great song, just didn't really transfer well ("Little Bird" by Annie Lennox). I can dance the heck out of some slow songs, but so many people do slow songs! and honestly, unless it's super amazing, I get bored watching slow choreography 😡 

[mel919]

I would! but I don’t have a pole, and the pole studios here don’t offer classes that are my level let alone classes that fit my schedule. 🙁 I was leaning towards Pilates, I don’t live in an area that offers awesome aerial classes and whatnot.