To me I really do not understand why some choose to judge exotic dances. The whole reason I bought this up today was one, I really wanted to know if I was safe talking about it. (I practice mostly at the club I dance at, and it is also where I met my husband (He was the DJ I was the dancer 😂 ) But another "pole dancer" came into the club last night and proceeded to try and humiliate me in my own club. Granted I put her in her place when I got on stage and busted out with some of my best tricks and then told her to step up or shut up, but it still really aggravated me. I hate nothing more then when a fellow pole dancer comes into the club with her man, or a male friend and just snubs me. Sadly, it happens more then it should.
Yes I dance on a stage, and dance in nothing but a thong at work. That does not make me any less skilled. In a way I have found that dancing topless has actually helped with precision when it comes to poling. (There is nothing worse then getting pole burn on your girls). Honestly, I think dancing in front of a crowd night after night has really helped me as a pole dancer because it helps me gauge what works and what doesn't. (Not to mention most clubs have more then a pole to dance on, so I have learned some other acrobatic things as well.) The club I work at now actually has an I beam on the second stage that I have recently figured out how to do the splits on and I can swing from it. Another club had a stationary trapeze bar that with my husbands help, I was able to do cordovas on among other tricks.
Re: pole burn on the girls: yikes!! 😂 I didn't even think about that--I strip down topless for my boyfriend when I dance for him, and that honestly just hasn't occured to me. I'll make sure to keep a close eye on the ladies next time and make sure I'm not endangering them. 😂
I haven't been subjected to it personally since I'm not a stripper, but there does seem to be a certain contempt from some pole dancers toward strippers. Like I said, I don't know why because the art of pole dancing came straight from the gentleman's clubs, so if you have a love for pole dance, why would you basically dump all over its history? It wasn't a couple of housewives that got together while their kids were playing on the playground and went 'Hmmm, you know, it would be really cool if we hung upside down by just our legs from one of these poles. While taking off our shirts.'
I've never been into a strip club before, but would be interested in going some time to maybe pick up some ideas--unfortunately I'm at least an hour and a half away from the nearest one, so it's not just a quick trip after work for me. But if I ever finally get the opportunity to visit one, there is no way in hell I would go in there trying to show up the dancers. That's just idiotic. In the club, they are the dancer and I'm just another customer. I might be different in a certain respect because I have this odd fascination with strippers, though. I don't know why--maybe it's just that I've always done office work and cannot imagine doing the stuff I do at home half-naked in front of a roomful of strangers and getting paid for it. 😂
Anyway, being a dancer, I don't have to tell you there's a certain stigma attached to stripping, and just because someone is a pole dancer does not automatically exclude them from the masses of people who are judgemental about it. They separate stripping from pole dancing because they enjoy dancing, but don't want to be labeled a stripper because people make a lot of unjust assumptions about strippers. They are morally bankrupt, sleazy, drugged-up, etc. in a lot of people's minds. I think they just can't fathom that there are actually some perfectly normal, well-adjusted people out there who just happen to take their clothes off for money. There are plenty of people who aren't strippers who are morally bankrupt, sleazy, drugged-up etc. etc.--are they better simply because they don't wear a thong to work? Some people would say yes. It's just the kind of crap you will always have to put up with as long as you dance, from all walks of life, and that will probably always include some people who do the same thing in the privacy of their own home.
And I agree with the floor work vids!! Get 'em up pronto, woman.
