Acrylic Pole?
2dyzzi started this discussion ·
Does anyone have an acrylic pole? I'm assuming the grip would be more with acrylic than it would be with anything metal?
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2dyzzi started this discussion ·
Does anyone have an acrylic pole? I'm assuming the grip would be more with acrylic than it would be with anything metal?
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I have seen some really cool acrylic poles but I don't think they can withstand a whole lot of abuse. I have a powder coated one and the grip on that is almost painful, especially when it is warm outside. I would think that it would scratch really easily, too! I have played on a home made "spinny" pole, which was basically pvc pipe around a steel pipe. The pvc was painted silver and it had NO GRIP whatsoever.
2dyzzi ·
Hmmm. Well I was thinking powder coated for my basement because it's so cold down there it takes forever to warm up my pole in all the right areas and then it cools down really quickly too. Painful grip might just work if I play nice on it! Thanks for sharing!
My powder coated takes a bit to warm up also....it is still metal under the enamel coat.
Charley ·
yeah my powder coated took a while to get warm too. I am also planning on installing it in the basement. If you get a small space heater that should do the job! The best part is...they are cheaper than other finishes 🥂
2dyzzi ·
Right! Duh moment.... 🤐 Thanks for that too. 😳
Not sure what you mean by acrylic pole, but we have plastic poles at one of the clubs I teach at. You can see some pics on my profile (https://www.studioveena.com/upload_media.php?show=photos). They're pretty cool - they glow and have air bubbles in them! They are VERY grippy but can be quite painful, especially to beginners.
Solya ·
Not sure what you mean by acrylic pole, but we have plastic poles at one of the clubs I teach at. You can see some pics on my profile (https://www.studioveena.com/upload_media.php?show=photos). That pole with the air bubbles is awesome! 🙂 Where did you get it from? I'm thinking of having a pole made for myself and acrylic looks so tempting...
[quote="Solya"That pole with the air bubbles is awesome! 🙂 Where did you get it from? I'm thinking of having a pole made for myself and acrylic looks so tempting... I have no idea but I will ask them next time I'm at work. 🙂
I thought there was talk about this before....SV PS Glo Pole The link I have in there is the bubble pole. ME had gotten an e-mail from the company stating that the weight limit was 150lbs.
I thought there was talk about this before....SV PS Glo Pole The link I have in there is the bubble pole. ME had gotten an e-mail from the company stating that the weight limit was 150lbs. The poles in this link http://entaleis.com/poles.htm do look just like the poles we have at work. EXCEPT ours have been built into the floor and ceiling. In the picture, they look like portable poles (judging by the base you can see in one pic). I have done lots of "aggressive pole work" on these bubble poles at work and it has never broken on me. Obviously they will be more stable because they are fixed into floor and ceiling. However - as we all know - ANY pole can come down. Hell, with the wrong use, anything (even a house) can come down! Lol! A horror story does circulate at work about a girl who used to work there, who did an enormous jump and spun around in mid air, to land in a super fast, super powerfol back hook spin (this is a power move I love to do often actually), and apparantly she pulled the bubble pole down, and broke a rib. So yea, might want to go tame on those poles.
Solya ·
Aww I love these poles 🙂 I weirdly find clear plastic gorgeous looking and I guess it has better grip than stainless right? The aggressive back hook is my favourite spin so these poles might not be for me after all... 🙄
Aww I love these poles 🙂 I weirdly find clear plastic gorgeous looking and I guess it has better grip than stainless right? The aggressive back hook is my favourite spin so these poles might not be for me after all... 🙄 I do the aggressive back hook on these acryllic poles at least once a week, in class. I can't guarantee you will be safe, so you'll have to make your own judgment. But the maintenance crew at the place I was talking about are sometimes a little slack with fixing things *cough*, which might be why the other girl had bad luck with her pole. An X-Pole can come down from an aggressive back hook too (in fact, I saw one come down during a fireman - twice - on two different occasions with different people). So as long as you kept checking the floor and cieling fixtures for the acrylic pole (just like you should keep checking how tight an X-Pole is) I think you would be ok. I love the clear plastic look too 😀
Solya ·
Thanks for the info 🙂 And lol, we use X-stages in class and one practically disintegrated when I did the aggressive back hook, two plates snapped off and the pole got unscrewed 😀 So much for safety.
