POLE DANCING NOW A COMPETITIVE SPORT
Scoff if you will, but pole dancing has been official sanctioned as a potential Olympic sport.
An organization called the World Pole Dancing Federation has managed to achieve international recognition for the “sport” of gyrating on a strip club pole. Who knew Las Vegas had so many Olympic caliber athletes?
The WPDF has been holding sanctioned competitions in pole dancing for six years. They have a website and a logo:
The organization recently held the European Pole Dance Championship. Here’s a picture of one of the contestants in training:
Pole dance competitions are sanctioned throughout Europe including countries like England,
and Belgium,
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There have even been pole dancing competitions in Japan.
Yahoo! Sports has a feature on pole dancing today.
Tags: European Pole Dance Championship, pole dancing, strippers, World Pole Dancing Federation
The Sports Pig's Blog 
December 29, 2009 at 9:01 pm |
If you’re seriously still thinking that this is some sort of joke, or haven’t been properly educated regarding the ‘sport’ of Pole Dancing as it currently stands…you should be. Especially before commenting on anything related to the issue. Pole Dancing is actually a worldwide competitive sport-for both men and women. There are governing bodies working to standardize the language, moves, levels of tricks, etc. as the sport works it’s way through the steps to become an Olympic Sport-which it inevitably will be at some point. There’s no way around that. If you’ve really tried it-you know this! Get fully educated and check out the actual step-by-step proclamation FROM the OLYMPIC COMMITTEE on how the sport will get ready for Olympic Stats at the following links. Time to leave the ‘stripper’ stereotype behind people-it’s long gone!
http://www.poledanceintlmagazine.com
http://www.polefitnessassociation.com
http://www.goddessartsacademynw.com
http://www.ipdfa.com
http://www.formatpixel.com/poledanceinternational (online global magazine for pole fitness)