Addicted to Pole Dancing

Street Pole Dance!

As a pole dancing student, it is very difficult for me to resist the dark force to strike some pole poses on these street “poles” :p

These “poles” are indeed directional signs, which are part of the “Visitor Signage Improvement Scheme” implemented by the Hong Kong Tourism Commission.

There are mainly 3 types: Directional Sign, Mapboard and Idenification Sign. These visitor signage aimed to provide convenience for visitors while travelling around Hong Kong.

These photos are listed according to the dates they were taken:

Lamma Island 南丫島	Central 中環	Wan Chai 灣仔
Cause Way Bay 銅鑼灣	Deep Water Bay 深水灣	Wong Chuk Hang 黃竹坑
Wong Nai Chung 黃泥涌	Tin Hau 天后	Sheung Wan 上環
Shau Kei Wan 筲箕灣	Sai Wan Ho 西灣河	Quarry Bay 鰂魚涌
North Point 北角	Happy Valley 跑馬地	Sai Ying Pun 西營盤
Tung Chung 東涌	The Peak 山頂	Wanchai Gap 灣仔峽
Bowen Road 寶雲道	Mongkok 旺角	Yau Ma Tei 油麻地
Sai Kung 西貢	Tsim Sha Tsui 尖沙咀	Ho Man Tin 何文田
Repulse Bay 淺水灣	Stanley 赤柱	Ap Lei Chau 鴨脷洲
Tin Wan 田灣	Aberdeen 香港仔	Peng Chau 坪洲
Ngong Ping 昂平	Pui O 貝澳	Mui Wo 梅窩
Hung Hom 紅磡	Mid-Levels 半山	Chai Wan 柴灣
Kowloon City 九龍城

See these photos on a map!:

View Pole Dance Around Hong Kong in a larger map

Went to the Play Club in Lan Kwai Fong yesterday, it has a pole right in the middle of the dance floor, making it alot more “suitable” for pole dancing, however, the diameter of its pole is 38mm, i.e. super small pole(and not very stable too). It is made of titanium so it’s a bit slippery, but spinning on it is fun! *You’ve got alot more spins*.

So there are a number of clubs in HK with pole(s) installed now:

HK Island:

• The Priory (75-77 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong, phone: 2522 2628‎) – It has the longest pole so far. Our favourite place for pole parties. Pole is of 55mm diameter.
• Soda (G/F, 5 Minden Avenue, Phone: 27390338) – Very short pole indeed, heard it’s closed down.
• M1NT (108 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong) – It has podium pole, i.e. not permenantly fixed one
• Evisu Bar (2/F, 43 Lyndhurst Terrace) – the pole is situated on a slightly elevated platform, however it is very close to the DJ booth, there’s only about 2 feet distance in between them.
• Homebase (LG/F, 17-19 Hollywood Road) – The pole is on a small stage of calf height, not very suitable for proper pole dancing. The place is nice though, it’s closed down now.
• Zinc Bar – (35 D’Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong) – The 45mm pole is installed on a very high stage, making it very dangerous to dance to (provided the “stage” is only of 1-1.5 feet diameter)
• Laguna – It is situated in Wan Chai, been there once, and will never go there again. It has 2 pole though.
• The Play Club (California Tower, 32 D’Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong) – It has a 38mm stainless steel pole installed right in the middle of the dance floor. Nice environment but with confusion signs (or no signs at all: toilet signs missing, exit signs missing… even the indications for male or female toilet are missing)…. oh, confusion music too! It plays dance, then to pop, then to grunge, latino music … all mixed together in a weird way.

Tsim Sha Tsui:

• M1 – (80 Kimberley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui) – two poles installed on a stage, very Las Vagas style. It has regular pole dance performance every Friday and Saturday. Nice music.
• Club ZaZa (3/F, Toy House, 100 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui) – Never been there so can’t give any comment on this place :p

…the capillaries burst after doing 10x Straight Edge today!

Googled a bit on how to get rid of it (cos the dots will turn brown after a few days and these “bruise” would last for like a week, really scary looking!):

- something called “capillary clear solution”, not sure about what that is…
- some say putting on peanut butter works, i will give this a try (why not anyway, it can only make my face smelling nice if it doesn’t work, lol)

I have also uploaded a video of those straight edge…. sorry about my body fat, have just submitted my thesis 2 days ago and had been sitting quite alot recently, and hence the FAT BELLY!

Bought a new pair (random brand) today… I’d been looking for a pair of nice purple platform shoes (either slingback or with straps) for ages and somehow I found a pair today!

3/4″ platform with 3 & 1/2″ heels, which I think is reasonable for pole dancing, and look at the platform and heels, both coated with silverish coating! Hee

Some of my other pole dancing shoes:

…imagine, pole dancing with a MASK on. at 21:36 on 01 May

Responses:

1. B. F. at 21:41 on 01 May – hahahaha~~~ from superman to batman~~
2. T. F. at 21:43 on 01 May – oooo how mysterious n sexy lol
3. D. H. at 22:17 on 01 May – Lace mask? Found a few nice ones here:
   http://bp1.blogger.com/_6QXT5ZnGRNE/SIgZTJkjJFI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9Dhpxerfkfo/s1600-h/lacemask1.jpg
   http://www.mardigrascostumes.com/bp60315.jpg
4. S.L. at 22:46 on 01 May – What will happen if you do inversion? :p
5. J.L. at 23:59 on 01 May – i’d seen ppl hiking w/ mask at sars time …………… XD
6. D.H. at 00:35 on 02 May – the masks would probably fly off when we all spin.
   might be even worse for spinning pole.. it will be

   ~phuuu~ “blup” (i.e. flown away, and land on the ground)

7. I.N. at 00:40 on 02 May – really?? how about trying an N95…
8. S.L. at 00:51 on 02 May – Still “~phuuu~ “blup” (i.e. flown away, and land on the ground)” <—the whole person, cos fainted after wearing N95 :p
9. D.H. at 01:37 on 02 May – that would be “bang” or “aiii-ya” rather than a simple “blup”
   sorry, taking BS here

Since the swine flu is such a hot topic these days (just confirmed that it has arrived HK!)… thought of putting a few shoutouts and updates and comments here, which I find kinda funny.

just wondering, if the swine flu gets serious in HK, do we have to wipe our POLES with BLEACH? at 01:58 on 01 May

Responses:

1. E.Y. at 02:17 on 01 May – or cling film your legs?
2. J.D. at 02:37 on 01 May – Don’t worry Denise 75% alcohol kills EVERYTHING…
3. R.E. at 07:50 on 01 May – hehe, swine flu? and ur worried about ur pole? silly cuz..
4. L.T. at 09:17 on 01 May – soak your legs with vodka, that will do the trick
5. T.A. at 13:48 on 01 May – hahahaha. Tee, are you sure???
6. D.H. at 19:55 on 01 May – I’ll need hell loads of vodka for my legs! better dig the bottle out from the freezer first :p

Can we call the “R-pole” a truely portable pole? Can we?

Cos, despite of the fact that most of the poles are “portable” these days, like the X-pole, the Lil’ Minx or even the Podium pole, which claim them as “portable”, in which they are, it’s just they suffer from a number of limitations:

• X-pole – it is VERY heavy, especially the top. I don’t know how much it weight, at least for mine, once i’ve got it set up I simply don’t want to remove it, cos it is tooo heavy and it takes two person to have it set up (at least in my case). But it is strong and stable… Mine has been set up for over a year and could withstand numerous parties + 8 girls on the pole…
• Lil’ Minx – it is expensive… i’ve heard its price has droppped down alot. It is VERY EASY to set up, really, the spring mechanism it used made this pole really really easy to set up. But what i’m worried about is the spring, you know springs get metal fatigue alot easier than other else.
• Podium pole – it is portable, and it has a stage. However, not everyone likes the stage (I’m not a fan of it) and it’s still quite bulky to have it carried around! Cos once it’s paacked, it size is more or less like a suit case… but then again, it is expensive.

How about this new “R-pole” then? It seems pretty strong to use, cos it can withstand Felix and Pantara – two of the most powerful pole dancers in the world and it must be strong! Hee hee. I’m not sure about its portability… and it comes with mats too… is it good or bad? the good side is, you don’t need to take a separate mat with you! but the bad thing is – can you wear high heels?

Here’s the link to the R-pole: http://www.r-polefitness.com/r-poles.html and a video on youtube for you to watch (it cannot be embedded).

Went to the Asia World Expo Hong Kong for a car show and saw a nice little street lamp… couldn’t resist on doing some pole move there! Sorry that I showed my little belly there :p

You know, since it’s a car show, there are loads of weird guys over there, I had to wait for quite a while until nobody was there to see my stupid action! Anyway, it was fun