Dancing is great exrcise!

On you tube there is a girl named Perri who dances at Spin Studio in Hollywood, California. She has a video on youtube where she combiness pointe shoes and pole dancing. There is another girl named JK her youtubechannel is jkdefiesgravity and she has her own DVD teaching series out but one of her promotional videos is entitled Pole ballet. She uses a lot of her ballet skills in her pole dancing. There are a lot of ballerinas and former gymnasts who enjoy pole dancing because it is not as hard on the joints. Instead of leaping into the air several feet and then landing it gracefully straining muscle, bone, and cartilage, expecially in your knees and ankles. You can almost fly on a pole and yet even if the pole is 20 ft high, you "land" your aerial tricks either gently on your feet. Sliding down slowly onto your bottom or shoulders is not uncommon and you thus put less wear and tear on the body while still flexing and stretching and challenging the body and the muscles to their fullest. You still have some impact moves and tricks where you leap do a spinning trick, land one footed in the middle and then flip, kick, or spin into another arial trick that can be tough on the ligaments but for the most part it is not as demanding of them as traditional dance is. I took jazz, modern, and briefly tap and believe it or not at one time or another all of those skills and all of the practice does have a practical value in vertical dance fitness to. And after all those years of dance you must have fantastic muscles which means though it still wouldn't be easy you would be able to learn quickly and excel at it. If you have never seen pole fitness at it's best go to www.youtube.com and search for the USPDF (United States Pole Dance Federation)Submission videos. www.Polesuperstars.com or any of the World Pole Dance Championship videos. Just search those terms and you will soon be sittig there facinated with your mouth hanging open and your head swimming with possibilities. Or just look up the best in the world Felix Cane the winner of the 2009 World Pole Dance Championship or Jeanyne Butterfly the United States Champion. I will probably never be good enough to climb up 25 feet and then hang in a pole split by one hand but I can certainly admire and aspire to it!

The kind of dancing I have found is not really important, any type of dance works your whole body, normally through it's whole range of motion. Your arms, your legs, even your neck, and face are all exercised when you dance. Enjoy!

I think you have to be rhythmically inclined in order to be pulled toward a life or lifestyle of dancing for pleasure, for exhibition, and to do it well. I have friends that I am even now trying to teach ryhthm because until you teach them that all else will fall on deaf ears because they cannot duplicate my routines without rhythm. I took a few dance classes as a kid, then when I got to High School Dance I and II were elective courses but also filled your PE credits so I took it both freshman and sophomore years. However there is something about pole dance that just does it for me. It fits me quite well as a passtime and hobby.